The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its sixth general membership meeting
of the year on Thursday, 06 December 2012, at the New Albany branch of
the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  The following members and guests
were present:

 K8RSP		Dave Woolf		-President
 K8LJ		Bob Kenyon		- Vice President
 KD8WK		Rob Stampfli		- Secretary
 W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		- Treasurer
 KD8ZG		Art Grandle		- VE Liaison
 KD8RTP		John Buck
 KD8TFR		Tony Vitali
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
 KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
 W8UL		John Tipka
 KB8PV		Madhu Asar
 W8REW		Ed Weston
 W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 N4DLR		George Foy
 N4HAI		Tom Foy
 K8AX		Dave Brown
 KD8OQA		Marty Hohl
 KD8TQE		Rick McCracken-Bennett
 KB8KPJ		Jim Morton
 K8ON		David Jeffords
 		Ben Razidlo (father)
		Brendan Razidlo (son)

K8RSP called the meeting to order promptly at 7 PM.

The minutes of the October 18th meeting were approved.

W3CRZ reported the club currently has $9455.85 in the treasury,
up from $9372.49 at the beginning of the year.  There are 46 paid
members, and 22 have already paid their 2013 dues.

New attendees KD8TFR, KD8TQE (both of whom earned their license
at our last VE exam session), and Ben Razidlo (and son Brendan)
introduced themselves.

KD8ZG reported there were 10 applicants at the last VE exam session
held at Parkview Presbyterian Church this past Saturday.  All 10
passed at least one exam element.  The next CRES-VE exam session
will be held in April.

We are in the process of installing an Echolink transceiver and
internet connection at Tate Antrim / WD8TA's house.  Dick Leffler /
W8RLL has generously donated a transceiver and we have acquired the
rest of the hardware.  This will allow out-of-town members to get
on the Sunday net and use the machine remotely.  The exact details
of when the Echolink system will be available are still being
worked out.

In a response to a question by KD8WK, K8LJ described how to use the
Netlogger software which K8LJ had been utilizing for the Sunday nets.
Basically, you must acquire the netlogger program (free from the
Internet from www.netlogger.org) and run it on a windows box in order
to get an official net check-in list.  The software also allows IMing
among the online participants.

K8RSP introduced the nominations committee, which consisted of KD8ZG,
N8WL, and W3CRZ.  The committee reported that they had secured the
following candidates for the four elected positions for the 2013
calendar year:

	President:	Bob Kenyon / K8LJ
	Vice President:	Dave Brown / K8AX
	Secretary:	Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
	Treasurer:	Bob Cartwright / W3CRZ

No names were placed in nomination from the floor, and the above slate
was elected by unanimous vote.

K8AX solicited the input of the membership for program topics for
the coming year.  N8WL extended an invite to anyone interested in
serving on the Program Committee, which consists of K8AX, N8WL,
and WA8LBZ.

KD8ZG said he has several 200 ft (approx) sections of 5/8" hardline
that belong to the club and "will be going cheap", as he no longer
wishes to store them at his house.  Some have fittings.

K8LJ thanked the program committee for their help in the past year,
and thanked K8RSP and the current officers for their past service.
He handed out two cards, a large one and a small one.  On the larger
card, he had the members draw a line down the middle and list personal
goals for 2013 on one side and any feedback for the club, positive or
negative, along with comments on the other.  On the smaller card, he
requested people write down their personal goals so that they had
their own copy.  K8LJ will share the anonymized information he received
with the club at a future date.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 PM.

K8LJ and KD8DZ then gave a tutorial on antennas, with emphasis on
modeling, based on questions previously submitted by club members.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary