As the holiday seasons descend upon us, I wanted to take a moment and wish all our members and their families, scanner listeners and friends of MCARC a Merry Christmas! Please remember the holidays are statistically some of the worst days to be on the road. If you are out please be safe.
Happy Holidays from the Mammoth Cave Amateur Radio Club!
The meeting came to order at 7:11 PM with 12 members and one guest (Dave Fields) present. The minutes were accepted as printed, and the treasurer reported $____ on hand and $___ in savings.
It was noted that the proposed Oct 8 JOTA event did not occur, as no scouts showed up. The Hamfest committee reported that all is on order at this time for the March 3 2010 hamfest. Field Day will be 23 and 24 at Legion Park.
Repeater Committee reported that Commonwealth Tower Co. has been scheduled to do the Hwy 63 site for $1000 and the Hart County site for $550. Tentatively set for Mon-Tue Oct 24- 25. When done, we will begin testing right away. Eventually we hope to repair the present Lohden road site to be kept as a backup.
The Turkey Trot footrace will be Sunday Nov 6, this time moved to the Beaver Trail Park area and will be 5 km instead of 5 miles. The main race will start at 3PM and afterwards we will come to the clubroom for a chili supper, eat time 4:30. Ron & Zona will be in charge of the supper, everyone can bring chili or something. A signup sheet was passed around for both the race and the dinner.
Mickey kf4ozb volunteered to take over the club website (ky4x.org), moving it to a new server company “Hostgator” which he has had good experience with, at a cost of about $4/month. A motion passed allocating $150 for 3 years service with Hostgator, with Mickey in charge.
The meeting adjourned at 8:01 pm.
Eventually I’ll get this where you can just view the most current smokehouse here.
Until then here’s a link: Oct2011Smokehouse
As you may or may not know; the KY4X website is undergoing an overhaul. Please bear with us during the many changes that are to come.
We welcome your feedback, please email kf4ozb-at-qsl.net with comments, queries, suggestions. (Note: replace -at- with the @ symbol to send me an email)
The meeting came to order at 7:10pm with fifteen members and one guest (Dave Fields) present.
The minutes were approved as printed, and the treasure reported $___ on hand and $____ in savings. It was announced that the KY Colonels ARC in Bowling Green will have a hamfest October 6, 2012 at the Sloan Convention Center on Scottsville Road.
The repeater comitte reported that the hart County and Hwy 63 projects are both awaiting climbers, and Joey demonstrated the UHF/VHF coupler assembly, costing $653, that will enable both repeater antennas on the Hwy 63 tower to share one feedline.
Brian (kc4mit) reported on JOTA, we are invited to participate at the Rotary Scout Camp near Temple Hill, Saturday afternoon Oct 15th. Marcus will bring the EMS trailer. Brian will email all members with more details. Brian also said that volunteers are needed to act as Radio Merit Badge counselors.
Joe is still working with EMS officials about a trailer donation to the club. City Hall is planning to repair the loos guy anchor in the roof. Mickey (kf4ozb) volunteered to revise the club website.
The Windstream telephone service at the West Main tower site was discussed. At one time was used for autopatch and control for the 2M repeater but has not been used for many years. A motion passed to cancel the service.
A motion passed to try for an additional vanity club call “KY4BC” indicating Barren County. there will be a statewide ARES meeting in Bardstown October 8th. Joey might attend.
The meeting adjourned at 8:05 PM.