The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its sixth general membership meeting
of the year on Tuesday, 09 December 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)
    Dave Woolf / K8RSP		(Station Trustee)
    Art Grandle / KD8ZG		(VE Liaison)
    Al Mecozzi / WA8LBZ
    Steven Pezzi / K8PEZ	(guest)
    Dave Blake / N4DB
    George Foy / N4DLR
    Tom Foy / N4HAI
    Doug Gibbs / W8NFT
    Kevin Howard / KD8DNO	(guest and speaker)
    Mike Mickelson / KD8DZ	(speaker)
    Weldon Mathews / K8NQ
    Steven Katz / N8WL
    Mike Rauh / W8GT
    Tricia Kovacs / KC8HIH
    Dave Brown / K8AX
    David Jeffords / K8ON
    Mike Stansbery / WD8EBS
    Andy Elliott / K8LE
    Carl Yaffey / K8NU
    Dennis Agin / N8ILN
    John Wronski / AB8TX
    Joe Knapp / New Ham
    Duane Vanone / KD8LUW

The meeting was called to order by President Bill Erwin at 7:00 PM.

New people:  Joe Knapp, a new ham who passed all three exams to earn
an Extra class license at our last VE session, and Dennis Agin/N8ILN,
who is interested in getting reinvolved in ham radio.

The minutes of the last meeting were approved.

Treasurer's report:  The current net worth for the club is $8,960.11.  
Bob is now taking dues for the 2010 calendar year.  In addition he
passed around the "CB" results for CQ-WE.  (Our location is designated
Columbus, or "CB", in the contest.)

Repeater:  Dave Woolf reported we lost our final power amp on the
repeater last month and we are currently running on our 15W intermediate
amp.  Dave has purchased a commercial GE 110W continuous duty amp, and
will place it in-line soon.  It's output will be set at about 100W,
providing an 8 db improvment over the current signal and allowing the
repeater to once again achieve its coordinated Effective Radiated
Power of 250W.

VE Team:  Art Grandle reported we had 10 candidates and 9 examiners
at this past Saturday's test session.  All but one candidate passed
something.  One of the candidates was Joe Knapp (mentioned above),
who attended our meeting for the first time tonight.  In total we had
5 people earn a Tech license, 2 a General, and 2 and Extra.  Our next
exam session will be in early April, probably Saturday, April 3rd.

New Business:  Rob mentioned that the Club had previously agreed to
be the host location for this year's CQ-WE contest.  The main job of
the host is to design and disseminate a certificate of participation
to all contestants.  We need to begin thinking of forming a committee
for that purpose.  Art Grandle gave a synopsis of what the contest is
about and how it is conducted.

Nominating Committee:  Bill Erwin stated that the President is a
de facto member of every Club committee, and since no one else
stepped forward to serve on the Nominations Committee, Bill undertook
the task himself.  He first asked for nominations from the floor.
There were none.  He then announced the slate:

		President:	Dave Woolf / K8RSP
		Vice President:	Bob Kenyon / K8LJ
		Secretary:	Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
		Treasurer:	Bob Cartwright / W3CRZ

Bill asked again for other nominations and again there were none.
Art motions and Al seconds that the slate be approved by acclimation,
and this was done with no dissents.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:22 PM, after which club member Mike
Mickelson/KD8DZ and Kevin Howard/KD8DNO gave interesting and
enlightening talks on GPS and APRS respectedly.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary