The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its sixth and final general membership
meeting of the year on Thursday, 17 December 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
 W8UL		John Tipka
 N8FWY		Chris Pezzutti
 KE8AVX		Allen Howe
 AC8TZ		Greg Mason
 WD8JLP		Mike Neal
 KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
 KD8OQA		Martin Hohl
 WB8YTZ		Joe Coffman
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 WB8ZTP		Mark Pogany
 KM4ADY		Douglas Olivo
 W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 K8AX		Dave Brown
 KE8CRM		Russell Ward
 KE8CRL		Alicia Ward
 K8NU		Carl Yaffey
 N8RFT		Jim Patterson
 WD8EBS		Mike Stansbery
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 KD8RTP		John Buck
 N4DLR		George Foy

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

Several guests introduced themselves, including WD8JLP, KE8AVX,
AC8TZ, N8RFT, KE8CRL, and KE8CRN.

The Secretary's report from the October 2015 meeting was accepted.

The Treasurer reported the club currently has $7053.94 in its
coffers and 55 paid members.

KD8ZG reported the VE team conducted an exam session at 9:00 AM
on Saturday, December 5th, at the Parkview Presbyterian Church in
Reynoldsburg.  The thirteen candidates all passed at least one
element for an upgrade.  The next CRES VE session will be held
in April, 2016.

K8RSP reported that the repeater was locked up for several days
surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday.  (The holiday closure delayed
our getting access to the repeater to reset it.)  The repeater
apparently fixed itself as Dave was en route to power cycle it
the following Monday.  The problem appeared to be that the CAT-1000
controller did not reboot sanely after a short power glitch.
This has happened to us once before, about 10 years ago, and other
CAT-1000 users have complained about this type of lock-up as well.

K8LJ reported that the Echolink interface to the repeater seems
to be generally working well.  The most prevalent complaint has
been low audio.

KD8WK noted that the w8zpf.net domain name seems to have supplanted
the official w8zpf.org domain name.  W8zpf.org is coming up for
renewal in early February and he wondered if the club desired to
retain it.  KD8ZG motions, and K8NU seconds, that the w8zpf.org
name be renewed.  Motion carries.

K8AX conducted the 2016 elections, explaining that there are four
elected positions:  President, Vice President, Secretary, and
Treasurer.  Dave indicated all the current officers were willing
to continue in their capacities, but would be more than willing
to turn the position over to new blood if there was any interest.
He solicited nominations from the floor and received none.  The
current slate of officers were re-elected by acclimation:

		     --- 2016 Officers ---
		President	Bob Kenyon, K8LJ
		Vice President	Tom Foy, N4HAI
		Secretary	Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
		Treasurer	Bob Cartwright, W3CRZ

The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 PM, after which N4HAI and K8RSP
gave talks on the status and interworkings of our new Yaesu Fusion
repeaters and the new controller which is being prepared for them.
Dave hopes to have the new repeater installed and up and running
around the time of the next Dayton Hamvention.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli
CRES-ARC Secretary