The CRES Amateur Radio Club held the second general membership meeting of
2019 on Wednesday, April 17, at the Whitehall branch of the Columbus
Metropolitan Library. The following members and guests were present:

W9ARD Alicia Ward - President
N4HAI Tom Foy - Vice President
W8ARD Russ Ward - Secretary
W3CRZ Bob Cartwright - Treasurer
KD8ZG Art Grandle
N9CX Bill Erwin
K8CYA Ross Wilson
KE8JZH Mark Goodman
K8RSP Dave Woolf
KE8HXA Allan Colgan
W8NEE John Raile
W8REW Ed Weston
KD8GRN Geoff Brozny
KM4ADY Doug Olivo
N4DLR George Foy
W8DMR Bill Parker

President W9ARD called the meeting to order at 6:48 PM.
All the attendees introduced themselves.

The previous meeting minutes were published by email. They were approved
with no additional corrections.

Treasurer's Report

Balance on hand $6736.19
2019 Paid members 41

Repeater

  We received a report from the FCC liaison in Maryland stating that John
Glenn airport was experiencing interference from our repeater again. A
short recording was sent but not conclusive that it was our repeater. They
did indicate it was a different frequency than the last time this problem
occurred, though it was close. They operate in the 125 - 130 MHz area.
Nothing on the recording identified it as our repeater, just a call sign of
a gentleman from Canal Winchester and the name John.

  In addition to the above-mentioned interference Dave received an email
for a gentleman at Norfolk and Southern Railroad stating that one of their
marshalling yards is hearing our repeater ID. They operate at 160 MHz. Dave
is not sure what could be causing this but will be investigating to find
the cause. The repeater may be off and on at different times until the
source of the problem is located and repaired.

  It is difficult to do any testing as we have to get the airport to shut
down the radios while we test.

We also still have Squirrel issues. A lot of speculation as to whom and
where but nothing definitive so if you hear him/her and can change to the
input frequency quickly please let us know if you hear it on the input.

VE Report

Art received a call from OSU about helping with a test session. They
provided 3 VE and we provided 3 for a test session there on April 2. 12
people showed up and 10 Technician licenses were issued.

We had a test session on Saturday April 6 at the Parkview Presbyterian
Church. 14 people preregistered 11 people showed up for testing. 1 upgrade
to Extra Class  2 upgraded to General class and 8 new Technicians.

Next test session will be July 6.

Field Day

Still need a Field Day Chairperson.

Good news they are not going to charge us site rental this year for FD.
They are charging for the use of the shelter house for Saturdays dinner but
that is only $45 a savings of over $200 from previous years.

We now have a nice new tent shelter to use for the CW station. Thanks to
W9ARD, it is a 10 x 12 self-supporting screened shelter with a built in
floor and side walls.

The next meeting is June 20 at the Reynoldsburg Library located at 1402
Brice Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068. Meeting time is the same as usual, the
business meeting starts at 6:45PM followed by a presentation. Join us early
for a bring your own dinner and fellowship.

This months presentation was by George Foy N4DLR about the restoration of a
boat anchor radio and the publishing of an article about the restoration in
QST.

Thank you all for attending the meeting.


Russell Ward
W8ARD
CRES ARC Secretary