The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its second general membership meeting
of the calendar year on Thursday, 21 April 2016, 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
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 W8NFT		Doug Gibbs
 K8NQ		Weldon Mathews	
 WD8JLP		Mike Neal
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 KD8DZ		Mike Mickelson
 AC8TZ		Greg Mason
 KD8RTP		John Buck
 KE8CUS		Craig Moore
 		Bob Purdue
 N8JSB		Justin Blumer
 N4DLR		George Foy
 N8OGI		Greg Stout
 KD8VJX		Jerry Griffin
 WB8ZTP		Mark Pogany
 KC8QC		Dave Menges
 KJ6MFN		Dorothy Lee
 K8AX		Dave Brown
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 KC8HIH		Tricia Kovacs
 K8ON		David Jeffords
 WD8EBS		Mike Stansbery

President K8LJ called the meeting to order at 6:50 PM.

Four visitors introduced themselves: (1) Dorothy Lee, KJ6MFN, who
recently moved to central Ohio from San Diego, (2) Justin Blumer,
N8JSB, (3) Greg Mason, AC8TZ, and (4) Dave Menges, KC8QC, who
recently moved to New Albany to be closer to family.

The Secretary's report from the February 2016 meeting, available
on the website, was accepted.

The Treasurer reported we have $6,977.23 in the treasury and 33 paid
members.

KD8ZG reported that eight candidates were tested at the April 2nd exam
session:  Two passed the General exam, and six qualified as Techs.
The Columbus hamfest will be held on August 6th at the new Masonic
facility in Grove City.  The CRES VE team will hold a closed session
exam on May 14th for 7-10 members of the Ohio Military Reserve who
are interested in acquiring a ham license.

K8RSP reported the repeater was in generally good condition.  He is
working out some final kinks between the new Fusion machine and the
controller.  K8LJ indicated that Tate has tweaked our EchoLink node
and it is difficult to tell an EchoLink contact from a traditional
2m contact on the machine now.

N8WL recognized N4DLR for doing a fine job running last Sunday's
CRES-ARC net.  All the net checkins were via EchoLink.

KD8WK reported that Silent Key Harry Maddox, KE8DC's, family would
like to have his tower and beam taken down and removed from the
premises.  They are offering the fold-over tower, beam (believed to
be a Mosley Classic 33), rotor, and associated hardware, to anyone
willing to take them down and haul them away.  Call Carol Wilcox at
614-581-8844 for more info.

K8LJ is looking for people to fill leadership roles for the upcoming
Field Day event.  In particular, we need an overall coordinator.
N8WL offered to be in charge of the banquet, if there is one, and
will invite local government officials to the event.  W3CRZ agreed
to handle the digital station and logging, as in past years, and
K8RSP offered to coordinate the Satellite station.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10 PM

VP N4HAI said that, unfortunately, there were no door prizes for
this meeting, but KC8HIH offered some safe-biking bumper stickers
for anyone who wanted them.  N4HAI gave a synopsis of some of our
future presentations now being planned, and introduced N9CX, who
gave a talk and demo on the latest enhancements he and WA8LBZ had
made to their QRP SWR meter.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary