The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its fifth general membership meeting
of the year on Thursday, 22 October 2015, at the New Albany branch of
the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  The following members and guests
were present:

 K8LJ		Bob Kenyon		- President
 N4HAI		Tom Foy			- Vice President
 KD8WK		Rob Stampfli		- Secretary
 W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		- Treasurer
 KD8ZG		Art Grandle		- VE Liaison
 K8RSP		Dave Woolf		- Immediate Past President
 KC8ARZ		Jim Bingham
 WB8ZTP		Mark Pogany
 KD8RTP		John Buck
 N8SY		Scott Yonally
 W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
 K8NU		Carl Yaffey
 K8MP		Joe Papworth
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 K8NQ		Weldon Mathews
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 K8TX		Dan Merrick
 KC8JPM		Dennis Brewster
 KM4ADY		Douglas Olivo
 W8JPF		Joe Fischer

President K8LJ called the meeting to order promptly at 6:45 PM.

The Secretary's report from the August 2015 meeting was accepted
with thanks to N8WL for taking the notes in the secretary's absence.

The Treasurer reported the club has spent $1,597 in the past few
months on the new repeater and ancillary equipment.  The club
currently has $6,988.27 in its treasury and 53 paid members.

KD8ZG reported the VE team will conduct an exam session at 9:00 AM
on Saturday, December 5th, at the Parkview Presbyterian Church in
Reynoldsburg.  Breakfast will be at 7:30 AM at the Reynoldsburg
IHOP for those interested.

K8RSP reported that he is continuing to work on understanding the
programming of the controller and the new Yaesu Fusion repeaters.
He invited interested parties to assist him, and he can especially
use help with fabricating the cables required.  He would like to
eventually put one of the Fusion units on the air temporarily as
a cross-band repeater at his domicile, in order to get the kinks
worked out before it replaces our existing W8ZPF/R.  K8LJ noted
that the Fusion repeaters come with a built-in rudimentary controller.

K8LJ reported that Tate Antrim/WD8TA has tightened up the squelch
on the EchoLink transceiver, resolving problems which have been
plaguing the EchoLink interface.

K8LJ threw the floor open to discussion as to why participation in
the Sunday CRES net has been dwindling of late, especially on the RF
side (most of the last few week's checkins have been over EchoLink.
Members suggested that perhaps with the earlier sunset the net time
was too late for those having the go to work the following morning.
We may try moving the net to an earlier time or a different day.

Doug Olivo/KM4ADY, a first time attendee, introduced himself to the
group, as did Joe Fischer/W8JPF and Joe Papworth/K8MP.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:05 PM, after which N4HAI introduced
our guest speaker, Joe Papworth/K8MP, who delivered an interesting
talk on CW contesting, including stories from his early ham career,
which in turn provoked additional remembrances from the audience.