The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its sixth and final general membership
meeting of the year on Thursday, 15 December 2011, at the New Albany
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
N4DLR		George Foy
N4OTR		Lois Foy
W8AGS		John Lawson
WA8PGE		Fred Saas
W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
K8ON		David Jeffords
KC8HIH		Tricia Kovacs
KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
N8WL		Steve Katz
K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
K8AX		Dave Brown
KD8OQA		Marty Hohl
KD8LUW		Duane Vanone
K8HTT		Larry Reynolds
W8HPL		Jim Feasel
W8DMR		Bill Parker

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

Guests Jim Feasel, W8HPL, and Lois Foy, N4DLR, (George's XYL) introduced
themselves.

It was determined no minutes were taken of the October 20th meeting.

W3CRZ reported that, as of tonight, the club has 45 members.  We have
$9312.05 in our treasury.  Bob also reported we were the top Ohio "3A"
station in this year's Field Day contest.  We also had 11 participants
in the 2011 CQ-WE contest, with KD8WK taking the top location score.

KD8ZG reported on VE exam session held on December 3rd.  There were 10
candidates, and a few mix-ups.  One candidate was given an incomplete
exam, but passed it anyway by scoring over the minimum number correct
even when all the questions he did not receive were counted as wrong.
Also, the posting of the test results to Mark Erbaugh got stuck in a
USPS infinite loop between Columbus and Toledo until Art intervened.
The next CRES VE exams will be in April, most likely the first Saturday
(April 7th).

K8RSP and K8LJ reported the noise on the repeater comes and goes, but
the machine remains usable.

K8RSP reported he had received no inquiries or nominations for tonight's
election of our 2012 officers, but that he had asked all four officers
and all had agreed to continue in that roll for 2012.  No nominations
were forthcoming from the floor.  A vote to re-elect these officers by
acclimation was taken and passed:

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

K8AX expressed that we have a good thing going with the club and asked
folks to help out by volunteering.  The workload is not bad if everyone
chips in a little.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:11 PM, after which Bill Parker, W8DMR,
gave an interesting talk about the iconic discoverers of the laws of
our basic electrical phenomena.