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November club minutes for the Little
Switzerland ARC Meeting was brought to order by
Rudy Behrens at 4:32pm at First Christian Church, 763 Passion Play Rd.
Eureka Springs, AR. Rudy read the minutes for October. Jim moved to
accept as read, Susan seconded and voice vote “I”s were unanimous. Susan gave the treasurer’s
report and our ending balance was $778.65 and ending is $761.51 . Old business: Jim. Radios are now gone from
the repeater site and building cleaned up. He have a question on the
rack 4’ tall, 42” by 42” by 1.5’ and wants to know what it is going to
be used for.
Answer from Rudy, it will be used to stack
radios and power supplies. John reported his research on
controller and power switches. 2 meter repeater uses 13.1 volts at 1 amp
while transmitting and .1 amp while receiving.
40 amp “Epigate” switch with different
accessories cost up to $140. cost.
Recommended that club buy the best and will
not have to add accessories later. Jim moved club buy the complete
device, Walt seconded, voice vote “I”s were unanimous.
West Mountain has a remote controller for
shutdown of repeater. Nominating committee did not meet and will provide a
list of nominees before the December meeting. Christmas party will be at the
church December 9 in the afternoon.
Club will pay for the meat. John moved to
accept, Jim seconded, voice vote “I”s unanimous. We will try to sell the solar
panels, by trying to get the selling company to take them back for
refund but also check with several other people who may be interested.
We still have the equipment Jack Green used to control shutting down and
back on the re[eater.
And we still have excess coax running to our
440 antenna and need to remove it to possibly improve its range. Meeting was adjourned at 5:12pm Patricia Dean
Secretary Attendance: (15)
Ronnie Robertson, Steve Krell KK6SQY, Jim
McCarthy KC0GDV and |