The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its fifth general membership meeting
of the year on Monday, 18 October 2010, at the Karl Road branch of the
Columbus Metropolitan 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
N9CX		Bill Erwin		- Past President
WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
KD8LUW		Duane Vanone
K8AX		Dave Brown
WA8PGE		Fred Sass
N8WL		Steven Katz
K8TX		Dan Merrick
N8VWQ		Bob Mayzer
K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
KC8DJR		George Kinder
WD8EBS		Mike Stansbery
WD8CZG		Gordon Lashley
W9MDC		Matt Corlett
KF8NB		Jim Ferguson		- guest
W8DMR		Bill Parker		- presenter

K8RSP called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

The Secretary's report from the August 19th meeting was approved.

W3CRZ gave the Treasurer's report.  The Club has $9,201.40 in its
various accounts at Telhio.  We currently have 46 members.  The
report was approved.

K8RSP told those present that WD8CZG had donated four door prizes
which would be raffled after the meeting.

KD8ZG reported that our next VE session will be in December, most
likely on the first Saturday.  It appears there are more VE tests
at this time than there is demand, so session attendance may be low.
Art stated Internet Coordinator Tate Antrim/WD8QFV has agreed to
look into creating an online signup web page which will spit out
the proper forms, partially filled in, in order to make the
registration process easier.

K8RSP said that there had been two recurring complaints about the
repeater:  (1) It has been noted that the output power sometimes
fluctuates.  Dave suspects the problem is in the power amp.  He
intends to pull the amp being used and replace it with a spare to
see if this resolves the problem.  If it does, he will attempt
to recreate the condition on the bench.  Dave remarked that this
is an old Motorola amp we bought off of Ebay, and he wondered if
perhaps it was time to look into purchasing a new commerical
amplifier.  (2) There have been some low-sensitivity issues with
our receivers, both main and remote, but these do not appear to
be correlated to the dips in power output.  The Repeater Committee
continues to monitor the situation.

K8RSP also asked for volunteers for a Nominations Committee to
prepare a candidates list for the election of next year's officers,
which will take place at our December meeting.

K8LJ and W3CRZ indicated the Certs for the 2009 CQ-WE contest are
being finalized and will be emailed and/or paper-mailed soon.

In response to an inquiry, W3CRZ said he did not have the official
results from the Club's participation in the 2010 OSPOTA event, but
he thought we had made about 60 contacts, and contacted about 30
parks.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 PM after which Bill Parker/W8DMR
gave a scintillating (literally) talk on how a PN junction works
and how this may be used to create an LED.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary