The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its second general membership meeting
of the year on Thursday, 29 April 2010, at the New Albany library.  The
following members and guests were in attendance:

K8RSP		Dave Woolf		- President
K8LJ		Bob Kenyon		- Vice President
KD8WK		Rob Stampfli		- Secretary
W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		- Treasurer
KD8ZG		Art Grandle		- VE Liaison
WD8EBS		Mike Stansbery		- Repeater Manager
N9CX		Bill Erwin		- Past President
N4DB		Dave Blake
WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
K8PEZ		Steven Pezzi
W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright
K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
KD8LUW		Duane Vanone
KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
KC8DJR		George Kinder
W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
W8AGS		John Lawson
W8REW		Ed Weston
WB8ABE		Phil Wilcox
K8AX		Dave Brown
N8WL		Steven Katz
KD8MNS		David Beckman
K8NIO		Wm Trigg Tabor		- guest
W8KHW		Kevin Walsh		- guest
W9MDC		Matt Corlett		- guest
K5ETH		Seth Corlett		- guest
KD8DVR		John Wilkerson		- guest
W8RLL		Dick Leffler		- guest

K8RSP called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.  K8NIO, W8KHW, KD8MNS,
W9MDC, K5ETH, KD8DVR, and W8RLL introduced themselves as guests.

KD8WK gave the Secretary's report from the previous (March 22) meeting.
The report was approved.

W3CRZ gave the Treasurer's report.  The Club has $9,371.62 in its
various accounts at Telhio.  We currently have 38 members.  The
report was approved.

WD8EBS was introduced as our new Repeater Manager for 2010.

KD8ZG reported that our April VE test session went well.  We had
18 applicants and everyone left with a license or upgrade.

Art then discussed a proposal for the Club's VE-Team to align with the
Laurel VEC.  Laurel is a sister organization to the ARRL-VEC, the VEC
we currently operate under.  Laurel does not impose any fee -- indeed
does not permit its teams to charge any -- for administering a VE exam,
whereas the ARRL-VEC currently charges $15.  Instead, Laurel asks each
VE team to absorb the ancillary costs associated with the exams.  Art,
KD8WK, and K8RSP attended and assisted with an exam session of another
Laurel VE team earlier this month and found the their procedures similiar
to ours.  Art estimated the annual costs needed for us to give exams at
$62.  With some expected help with reproduction costs from the employer
of one of our VEs, the actual costs might be as low as $8 per session.  

Art indicated our next VE session will most likely be at the Aladdin
Hamfest in early August and he'd like to conduct it under the auspices
of the Laurel VEC.

WD8EBS motions and K8PEZ seconds that the club support the affiliation
of our VE Team with the Laurel VEC.  The motion carries.

No action has been taken with respect to the Club's role as Host Location
for last year's CQ-WE contest.  The sense of the Club was that we should
make a concerted effort to move forward with the production of the
certificates, with the intent on reaching closure by the end of the
summer.  This will fulfill our responsibilities as Host Location.

K8LJ reported that he had reserved the Infirmary Mound park once again
for our Field Day site.  The cost had risen significantly, and the
park wanted an additional fee for the rental of the barn, but Bob was
able to talk them down to $200 for both.  K8RSP suggested he'd like to
see us set up a Friday evening work party so that our Saturday morning
activities are less hectic.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, June 15th, at the Reynoldsburg branch
of the Columbus Public Library, corner of Brice and Main.  The topic
of the presentation has not yet been determined.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 PM, after which K8LJ turned the floor
over the N8WL, who with K8NIO and W8KHW gave an excellent presentation
on the D-STAR digital radio system.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary