The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its fifth general membership meeting
of the calendar year on Thursday, 26 October 2017, at the New Albany
branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.  The following members
and guests were present:

 N4DLR		George Foy		- President
 KD8WK		Rob Stampfli		- Secretary
 W3CRZ		Bob Cartwright		- Treasurer
 K8RSP		Dave Woolf		- Station Trustee
 KD8ZG		Art Grandle		- VE Liaison
 K3CTN		Dave Brown
 AC8YE		Larry Howell
 KD8OQA		Martin Hohl
 KF8HWY		Mott Given
 N9CX		Bill Erwin
 WA8LBZ		Al Mecozzi
 WD8ODC		Constance Barsky
 N8WL		Steve Katz
 W4MLZ		Robert Jansen
 KD8RTP		John Buck
 KC8VWS		Jack Arthurs
 W8ARD		Russ Ward
 KE8CRL		Alicia Ward
 N8PVC		John Montgomery
 KM4TT		Paul Kehrer
 KD8GRN		Geoff Brozny
 K8ON		David Jeffords
 		Brian Saul		- Guest Speaker

President N4DLR called the meeting to order at 6:45 PM.

At N4DLR's request, all the attendees introduced themselves.

The Secretary's minutes from the August meeting were approved.

The Treasurer reported we now have 54 paid members and $6,849.28
in our treasury.

Committee Reports:

Repeater: K8RSP reported that the repeater was functioning well now
that the interference problem with John Glen International Airport
has been resolved.

Echolink: KD8GRN reported that Echolink is installed and working well.
The radio however had to be replaced recently because the old one
lost its CTCSS.  Geoff re-adjusted the audio gain and the new radio
sounds great.

VE Exams: KD8ZG reported that the VE team's next test session will
most likely be at 9 AM on the first Saturday in December.

Nominations: N8WL reported that three of the four officer positions
have potential candidates willing to run.  We are still accepting
nominations from the membership.

N4DLR explained he would like to conduct elections by paper and email
this year so that we have a newly elected slate of officers for our
December meeting.  The last day to submit a vote was proposed to be
December 14.  More information on the procedure will be forthcoming.

WA8LBZ questioned why the website was inaccessible.  KD8WK explained
that the Wordpress website that we had been using had been taken down
and, as a result, the Secretary's website has been temporarily pressed
into service in its stead.  Eventually, the current thinking is that
we'll bring the original website residing on qsl.net up-to-date and
revert to it instead.

The next meeting will take place on Thursday, December 21st, at the
New Albany branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.

Two door prizes were won by KD8OQA and WD8ODC respectively.

The meeting was adjourned at 7 PM.  An insightful presentation on
Emergency Communications Protocols and Preparations in the Health
Care Industry and how they prepare to deal with Disasters and
Catastrophes was delivered by Brian Saul of OhioHealth.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary