CRES AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 
MEETING MINUTES
APRIL 18, 2013

The following members were in attendance:
	K8LJ		Bob Kenyon		President
	K8AX		Dave Brown		Vice President
	W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		Treasurer
	KD8ZG		Art Grandle		VE Liaison
	K8RSP		Dave Woolf		Past President
	WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
	N9CX		Bill Erwin
	KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
	K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
	N8WL		Steve Katz
	KD8RTP		John Buck
	WD8JLP		Mike Neal
	W8NFT		Doug Gibbs	
	K8ON		David Jeffords
	KC8HIH		Tricia Kovacs
	W8UL		John Tipka
			Bob Perdue
	KC8JPM		Dennis Brewster
	KD8OQA		Martin Hohl
	N4DLR		George Foy
	KD8TFR		Tony Vetali

CALL TO ORDER:
K8LJ Called the meeting to order at 19:01.

SECRETARY’S REPORT:
K8LJ reported that the secretary had a conflict and could not be present.

TREASURER’S REPORT: 
W3CRZ gave the Treasurer’s report, indicating that we have 45 paid members
and a balance of $9821.65.

VE UPDATE:
KD8ZG reported that there were 13 applicants at the last VE session at
the Parkview Presbyterian Church. 12 passed their exams.  The next VE
session will be the first weekend in August starting at 9:00 AM.  More
information will be forthcoming.  He also reported that he plans on
buying VE polo shirts for the examiners.  Depending on the colors voted,
they will all be either blue or grey.  Cost will be approximately $12.99
which the club will pay.  He will order 20 shirts (some spares) with the
examiner’s name, call sign, the CRES logo and the Laurel affiliation.

REPEATER:
K8RSP reported that the "voter" sometimes failed to operate, however on
pushing the reset button the problem was corrected.

ECHOLINK:
K8LJ indicated that EchoLink was generally working, but that sometimes
stations attempting to connect did not have audio which required personal
adjustments to their equipment.  On a few occasions EchoLink was not
working and required rebooting of the controller to bring it back on line.

FOLLOWUP ON PERSONAL GOALS:
K8LJ discussed the list of compiled member and club goals for the coming
year.  Two goals the seemed to come to the top of the list were 1) improving
member’s CW proficiency using MCW over the repeater and 2) a club challenge
to work as many states and countries as possible during the year.  This
would be done on the honor system.   A certificate might be awarded at the
end of the year.

FIELD DAY:
Field Day will be the 4th weekend of June (the 22nd and 23rd).  K8LJ raised
the question of location.  The previous use of Infirmary Mound Park was
discussed.  There were no objections, so on the motion of W8UL and second
by K8AX, the membership voted to return again this year to the Park.

OSPOTA:
CRES placed 5th last year in the OSPOTA multi-operator  high power category.
 The club received a certificate and a number of QSL cards.  Among them,
were two from the W1HP HP Club and K5WH HP Compaq ARC in Houston celebrating
David Packard’s 100th birthday.   On the motion of N8WL and second of K8RSP,
the club voted to return to the Buckeye Lake Park location of previous years.
This year, the event will be held on Saturday September 7th.

Thus ended the business part of the meeting.

PROGRAM:
N9CX presented a program on surface mount techniques with support from K8AX
and WA8PGE (who was unable to attend due to work).  Discussion included
information about SMD devices, board layout software, and board design.
Techniques for placing and soldering devices to boards were discussed.
Several videos were shown which detailed various approaches to soldering
the devices.  The presentation took a lot of the mystery out of the process
of the assembling PCBs with SMD devices.  As N9CX quipped, “if I can do it,
so can you!”  It was a great presentation.  

The meeting adjourned at 20:28.

Respectfully submitted,
Mike Mickelson – KD8DZ
Temporary CRES-ARC Secretary in the absence of Rob Stampfli