The fourth CRES Amateur Radio Club general membership meeting of the
calendar year was held on Thursday, August 23, 2018, at the New Albany
branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. The following members
and guests were present:

KE8CRL Alicia Ward - President
N4HAI Tom Foy - Vice President
W8ARD Russell Ward- Secretary
K3CTN Dave Brown
WA8LBZ Al Mecozzi
KD8WK Rob Stampfli
N9CX Bill Irwin
KE8JCH Mark Goodman
KB8DEO Stu Steenburgh
KD8ZG Art Grandle
KD8DZ Mike Mickelson
KD8GRN Geoff Bronzy
WA8UZP Jim Reed
KD8YYP Ann Reed
AC8UA Bob McNitt
K8RSP Dave Woolf
KD8OQA Martin Hohl

President KE8CRL called the meeting to order at 6:45 PM.
All the attendees introduced themselves.
The Secretary's minutes from the June meeting were approved.
The treasurers report was read by KE8CRL.

Balance on hand $6540.81
2018 Paid members 57

Repeater K8RSP
Minor problem of the voter circuit is not reporting accurately. The issue
during the net of no fully dropping is suspected weak signal conditions. It
is not a problem for RF stations just go ahead and talk over it, your
signal should be strong enough. Only issue is Echolink cannot get into the
repeater until it fully drops.

VE Report KD8ZG
We had 11 VEs and 3 test takers 2 passed upgrade to general. Next test
session will probably be the first Saturday in December if the church is
available.
Art asked for input via email at KD8ZG@arrl.net about thoughts on moving
the normally August test session back to September in order to not compete
with the test session at the Columbus hamfest.

Field Day
W3CRZ is stepping down as Field Day Chairman. We are looking for another
volunteer.

New Business
Concern was expressed that when searching CRES ARC on google the several
pages came up. One is current others are outdated. While we cannot not stop
google from returning sites that are outdated, at the time these minutes
were written the QSL.Net/W8ZPF page has been taken down. Thanks Rob.
Four members of the VE team do not have polo shirts Art was given
permission to purchase shirts for them.
Question was purposed that maybe we have club shirts made. Art will check
on pricing and availability of shirts for the club.

Sometime in the next month we will be sending out a survey about Field Day
and general club activities we would like everyone to honestly respond to.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10 PM.

The next meeting is Thursday October 18 at the New Albany Branch of the
Columbus Public Library. See you all there.

Cake was served to everyone in honor of KE8CRL's birthday.

The meeting was followed presentation by Mike Mickelson KD8DZ about GPS
disciplined oscillators. What they are and how to use one.

Russell Ward
CRES ARC Secretary