The CRES ARC held its fourth meeting of the year on Thursday, August 25,
at the New Albany branch of the Columbus Public Library. The meeting was
called to order by President K8LJ at 6:43 pm. The following people were
in attendance:

K8LJ	Bob Kenyon	President
N4HAI	Tom Foy		Vice President
KD8WK	Rob Stampfli	Secretary
W3CRZ	Bob Cartwright	Treasurer
K8RSP	Dave Woolf	Station Trustee
-	Bob Perdue
K8NQ	Weldon Mathews
N8VWQ	Bob Mayzer
-	Richard Downs
KD8DZ	Mike Mickelson
K8ON	David Jeffords
WB8ZTP	Mark Pogany
N9CX	Bill Erwin
W8UL	John Tipka
N8OGI	Greg Stout
KD8VJX	Jerry Griffin
K8AX	Dave Brown
N4DLR	George Foy
N8WL	Steve Katz
W8NFT	Doug Gibbs
KD8OQA	Martin Hohl
K8TX	Dan Merrick III
WA8LBZ	Al Mecozzi
-	Don Larsen
WD8JLP	Mike Neal
KC8HIH	Tricia Kovacs
KD8RTP	John Buck
KE8CRM	Russell Ward
KC8DJR	George Kinder

Richard Downs, a visitor and friend of presenter David Rouse, introduced
himself, as did Don Larsen, a friend of W3CRZ's.

The minutes of the June meeting were approved.

Treasurer W3CRZ reported the club has $7007.85 in the treasury and
44 paid members.  K8LJ noted that several regulars within the club
cannot be considered paid members because they have been remiss at
paying their yearly dues.  The club does not drop people from the
email lists or otherwise sanction them for non-payment of dues, but
our dues remain at a reasonable $10/yr, so those who haven't paid
should consider renewing their memberhsip.

K8LJ reported for KD8ZG, who is in Florida attending the wedding of
his grandson, on the VE session held at the Columbus Hamfest earlier
in the month.  The team administered exams to 11 candidates, of which
three earned Tech licenses, four earned General, and one earned Extra.
The team is trying a new system based on rules imposed by the Dayton
Hamvention test team.  In particular, no cell phones or personal
calculators will be permitted during the administration of an exam.
The club will have calculators available for use on an as-needed
basis.

K8RSP reported on the repeater:  The .67 machine's power amp either
blew a fuse or had one go bad earlier in the month.  In any event,
the fuse was replaced and the problem has not recurred.  Dave is
continuing to work on getting the kinks worked out of the new Yaesu
Fusion repeater and hopes to have it ready to replace our existing
repeater on the air this fall.

K8LJ reported several changes have been made to the EchoLink system,
and it was working well, although it was not clear which change made
the difference.

N4HAI thanked K8AX for arranging the speaker for tonight's meeting.
Tom said he was working on getting speakers from Yaesu and Elecraft
for future meetings and solicited suggestions of future topics from
the membership.

There was no old business.

K8LJ said we have thus far not committed to having the club participate
in the OSPOTA -- The Ohio State Parks on the Air -- event, and we need
someone to step forward and lead the effort if we are indeed going to
do so.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10 after which K8AX introduced
David Rouse, a friend and former colleague of many of the membership,
who gave an in-depth talk on the energy-efficient solar home he had
designed and built.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary