The CRES ARC held its sixth and final meeting of the year on Thursday,
15 December 2016, at the New Albany branch of the Columbus Public Library.
The meeting was called to order by President K8LJ at 6:45 pm. The following
people were present:

K8LJ	Bob Kenyon	President
KD8WK	Rob Stampfli	Secretary
W3CRZ	Bob Cartwright	Treasurer
KD8ZG	Art Grandle	VE Liaison
KD8TA	Tate Antrim	Webmaster
KE8FPD	Larry Howell
KE8CRM	Russell Ward
K8AX	Dave Brown
KD8DZ	Mike Mickelson
K8NQ	Weldon Mathews
WD8JLP	Mike Neal
K8NU	Carl Yaffey
K8RSP	Dave Woolf
WA8LBZ	Al Mecozzi
N9CX	Bill Erwin
N4DLR	George Foy
W8JPF	Joe Fischer
K8HTC	Larry Feth
N8FWY	Chris Pezzutti
W9WSW	Scott Westerman III

KE8FPD introduced himself:  A renewed ham, Larry was originally licensed
as WA8QAJ but let his license lapse in the 1970s.  He attended our club's
VE session earlier in the month, earning a General class license and
joining our Amateur ranks once again.

The Secretary's report from our October meeting, which has been posted
online, was approved.

The Treasurer reported the club has total of $7130.99 in the bank and
currently has 48 paid members.  K8LJ reminded the regular attendees who
have not paid their dues that we'd still like to have them as paid
members.

KD8ZG reported that the VE team had ten candidates at their December
session, held on the 3rd.  Four earned a Tech license, three obtained
a General and 2 upgraded to Extra.  One candidate did not pass the
Tech exam.  Our team's next exam will be held in April, probably on
the first Saturday of the month.

K8RSP said the repeater has been behaving itself.  One problem, believed
to have been caused by external interference, has been absent recently.
Dave is still working to get all the kinks out of the Fusion repeater
we are building to replace our existing machine.

K8LJ announced Echolink also seems to be doing well of late.

In Old Business, K8LJ reported he had reserved the Infirmary Mound Park
track and barn area for our 2017 club Field Day exercise.  We do not
have to give them a down-payment until next year.  He also encouraged
everyone to operate or log in the contest, even if only for a little
while.

The meeting was adjourned at 7 PM, after which guest Scott Westerman III,
W9WSW, gave an interesting and entertaining talk on using Social Media to
highlight ham radio.  Scott chairs the ARRL Public Relations Committee
and in addition to championing the use of Social Media, is pursuing
how to revitalize school ham clubs.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary