The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its second general membership meeting
of the year on Thursday, 16 April 2009, at the New Albany library.
The following members and guests were in attendance:
    Bill Erwin / N9CX		(President)
    Bob Kenyon / K8LJ		(Vice President)
    Rob Stampfli / KD8WK	(Secretary)
    Bob Cartwright / W3CRZ	(Treasurer)
    Tate Antrim / KD8HJA	(Internet Manager)
    Dave Woolf / K8RSP		(Station Trustee)
    Art Grandle / KD8ZG		(VE Liaison)
    Al Mecozzi / WA8LBZ
    Dave Brown / K8AX
    Mike Mickelson / KD8DZ
    Steven Katz / N8WL
    Constance Barsky / WD8ODC
    Fred Saas / WA8PGE
    Mike Stansbery / WD8EBS
    George Foy / N4DLR
    Andy Elliott / K8LE
    Doug Gibbs / W8NFT
    David Jeffords / K8ON
    Tricia Kovacs / KC8HIH
    Duane Vanone / Guest

The meeting was called to order by President Bill Erwin at 7:00 PM.
Duane Vanone, a friend of Dave Brown's who is interested in ham radio,
was introduced as a guest.

The minutes from the February meeting were approved.

Bob Cartwright gave the Treasurer's report:

    $ 7,573.87 in Telhio CDs
    $   921.41 in Telhio Share Savings
    $   568.14 in Telhio Share Draft Checking
    $    21.65 in our cash account
    ----------
    $ 9,085.07 Total

Dave Woolf reported that the repeater was operating A-OK.

Art Grandle reported that we tested 16 candidates at our last VE
session, with 14 walking out with a new license or upgrade.  Two
passed all three exam elements at this sitting, coming in with
nothing and leaving with an Extra class license.  One applicant
was 11 years old.  One of our club members, Jim Jennessee / KD8UT,
brought several applicants from a class he was teaching in Howard,
Ohio.  He also used the opportunity to upgrade to Extra class
himself.  Congratulations, Jim!  Another applicant, Andrei Cretu,
who obtained a US ham license (AC8DP) at our exam session, chose
to join our club under our new program that extends a free year's
membership to non-members who obtain a license or upgrade at one
of our sessions.  Welcome, Andrei!

Art also reported that the Columbus Ham-O-Rama hamfest will take
place on Saturday, August 1st.  We will be giving ham radio exams
at the hamfest as usual.  However, the organizers will only permit
us ten free admissions to the hamfest this year.  After that, VEs
will be asked to pay.  (Last year, it appears that several VEs
unrelated to our team got into the hamfest for free by flashing
their badges.)  Our VE team will work out the logistics later.  

Steven Katz encouraged more people to join us on Sunday evenings
for our club roundtable at 9 PM on 146.67.  He suggested we also
examine possibly setting up an HF roundtable sometime as well.

Bill next discussed Field Day issues:  We have thus far found no
one who is willing to assume the Contest Coordinator role, so
Bill proposed he take over the responsibilities for Field Day,
mainly serving in a coordination role.  He indicated he would
like to have a Chair for Phone and a Chair for CW operations. 
These roles would be responsible for procuring a suitable rig and
logging computers, erecting the antennas, assigning time slots for
people to operate, etc.  They could, of course, further delegate
these individual responsibilities.

Bob Cartwright, our former CC, said that publicity was the hardest
part of the job.  Tricia Kovacs suggested adding a coordinator for
logging.   Art suggested possible coordinators for electric power,
food, and publicity, and Steve suggested one for Bonus Points,
as well managed Field Day bonus points can often handily increase
a club's final score.  A suggestion was made that we add a QRP
station, but this was tabled since it was thought it would mean
the entire event would have to operate QRP, although it might be
possible to provide such a station by operating it as a separate
entity under a different call if someone wanted to assume the
responsibility for this.

Bill stated if no one stepped forward to handle some aspect of
the event, he would improvise.  For instance, if no one agrees
to coordinate the food, he would ask folks to bring their own.
He also said that any recommendations or suggestions for a
different site for next year should be made early -- at least
this year -- so that the site could be visited and a decision
made with plenty of lead time.

The club received a complimentary free ticket to the upcoming
Athens hamfest on April 26th.  Fred Saas was the only one to
express interest in the ticket, so it was given to him.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:33 PM, after which Al Mecozzi gave
a short talk on the various methods by which one could measure
RF power.  Following the presentation, he, Bob Kenyon, Dave Brown,
and Dave Woolf then conducted and recorded measurements and errors
on the various watt-meters club-members brought in for testing.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary