The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its second-quarter general meeting
of the 2006 calendar year at the New Albany Library on Wednesday,
08 June 2006.  Those in attendance were: President Bill Erwin/N9CX,
Vice President David Brown/K8AX, Secretary/Treasurer Rob Stampfli/
KD8WK, Trustee Mike Rauh/W8GT, Contest Coordinator Carl Yaffey/K8NU,
Past President Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH and members N4DLR, K8LJ, WD8EBS,
K8RSP, W3CRZ, K8TX, K8ON, KC8DJR, WA8LBZ, K8KJ, and guest Tom Foy/
N4HAI.

Bill Erwin called the business portion of the meeting to order
promptly at 7:00 PM.

The minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

The Treasurer reported a balance of $297.39 in the cash account,
$1643.45 in the checking/savings account, and $5390.56 in CDs,
including a $1000 CD which was just purchased in April.

Dave Woolf/K8RSP reported for the repeater committee:  Dave was
not able to locate a suitable replacement for the repeater's power
amp at Dayton, as he had hoped to do this year, but he cascaded
two of his own amps to temporarily replace the motorola unit which
has only been producing about half its rated output power.  The
temporary setup is in place and working well.  In fact, its power
output is estimated at 130 watts -- the most we've ever run on
the repeater.  The moto amp is on the bench, but Dave has not
delved into it yet.  The CW receiver-IDer that Bill Erwin designed
to allow W8ZPF users to determine via the reset beep which site
they are predominantly getting voted into is now in place and
functioning well.  In fact, it is pointing out what we believe is
a problem with the link not being voted to as often as it should
be.  Dave also reported the link remote receiver is not currently
running a preamp.  Finally, believing it to be the Dublin receiver,
the control link receiver was inadvertently removed during our
last service visit, but we'll use the mistake to verify the
receiver is operating within specs, and it will be returned to
service shortly.

Bob Kenyon/K8LJ spoke for the club in expressing what a great job
Bill Erwin had done with the receiver-reset-beep-IDer circuit.

The next VE exam session is expected to be at the Columbus
Ham-"OH"-Rama hamfest on August 5th, although we have not yet
heard from the hamfest organizers.

Bob Cartwright reported for the Field Day committee:  Bob
first presented Mike Rauh/W8GT with Field Day T-shirts from the
club, for him and his wife Viodelda, for their hosting of our
Field Day event at their house for the past three years.  Bob
said he is looking for a food chairman and a CW chairman.  Mike
agreed to take the CW chair position.  Bob told the club he
anticipates operating class 3A this year, with a phone station,
a CW station, and a roving third station to handle the odd
stuff like 160m, packet, etc.  He anticipates a breakfast
meeting on Saturday, June 24th, to be followed by an antenna
erection party.  The combined FD/club picnic event will take
place Saturday evening, and Mike Rauh promised a bacon and egg
breakfast for the diehards Sunday morning.  As with last year,
we intend this to be more of a fun event than an hard-fought
contest.  Bob indicated he'd like to have $100 to use for Field
Day expenses.  A motion was made by Dan Merrick/ K8TX, for up
to that amount to be allocated for this year's Field Day
expenses, and the motion carried.

Al Mecozzi/WA8LBZ offered to bring his camera and tripod to the
next meeting take quality photos of each club member for our
web site.  It was recommended that this be done during the
dinner period preceding the next general meeting.  Those
desiring to have their pictures made should arrive early enough
to allow Al ample time to do this.  Rob Stampfli/KD8WK pointed
out that the pictures he used to populate the new member web
page come from a variety of sources and he concurred some leave
something to be desired.  However, the purpose is only to allow
members to identify other members they may not know by sight.
Rob will gladly replace anyone's picture with another of that
individual's choosing if they send their preferred picture to
him.  Rob has been emailed a few pictures from folks for this
purpose, and had also taken a few snapshots prior to the
meeting tonight to use on the web site.

David Jeffords/K8ON suggested Bill Erwin might consider giving
a talk on the design of the CW-Receiver-IDer sometime, and
Dave Woolf offered to talk on the capabilities of the repeater
controller.  Rob suggested we schedule these talks at an
informal dinner meeting on a month we do not have another
activity planned.

The meeting was adjourned promptly at 7:30 PM.  Dave Brown/
K8AX then introduced Carl Yaffey/K8NU, who gave an interesting
and informative talk on the many aspects of amateur satellite
communications.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli/KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary