date

2024-04-20

convened

09:33

adjourned

10:46

Officers

• President: David Bailey (K5DKB) present
• Vice President: Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ) present
• Secretary: Matthew Barry (KG5LYE) present
• Treasurer: Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ) present

Attendees (32)

Quorum attained!

• David Bailey (K5DKB)
• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)
• Mindy Caldwell (KJ5MJC)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• David Cooper (KI5JPG)
• Ron Estes (KJ5EFO)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
• Jim Laird (KF5YY)
• Russ McDonald (KL2PB)
• Henry Menefee (W5RAS)
• Kerry Miller (WD5ABC)
• Becky Miller (K5BEC)
• Robert O'Connell (KC5DWB)
• Wayne Pecena (N1WP)
• Bill Preston (KZ3G)
• Rich Rychetsky (W5SON)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• John Walker (W1JCW)
• Ken Wilson (KE5DFR)
• Nathan Wood (KN4TTV)
• Michael Kingman (NS5E)
• Marilyn Kingman (KE5VOT)
• Lee Kuty
• Stephen Arnold (KJ5FQN)
• Gregg McCravey
• Robert Grigsby (KI5WFZ)
• Laura Cass
• Carson Cass

Officer Reports

President

David Bailey (K5DKB)

• Welcome!
• Lots of new faces!
• Sorry about the weather; we’ll have to postpone Radio in the Park until May
• Field Day planning

Vice-President

Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)

• We have a box!
  • From Japan through California
  • Yaesu has a promotion to buy a repeater (spare in this case) for half-price
    • Membership voted to take advantage
  • There is a repeater in the box!

Secretary

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

Approval of Minutes

• Hearing no corrections, minutes stand approved as sent out
• Minutes from this meeting will be sent out later today

Treasurer

Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

Last Month’s Statement

• Starting balance: $8,979.82
• Income: $148
  • Membership dues
  • Swag
  • VE exam fees
  • Repeater donations
• Disbursements: $15
  • VE exam fees to ARRL
• Ending balance: $9,112.82

NOTE: Repeater has been purchased (by Paul), but has not been disbursed (about $900)

Club Merchandise

• Winter Field Day 2023 stickers: $2
• Club logo pins (limited): $3
• Club logo stickers: $2
• Club logo window clings: $2
• Club logo patches: $5
• Club logo keychains: $2

Membership Renewals

Membership can be renewed in any of the following ways:

• online at Ham Club Online
• request PayPal invoice via email
• mail in cash or check (PO Box 4442, Bryan, TX 77805–4442)
• bring cash or check in-person at a meeting

National Train Day

• 2024-05-11 10:00/18:00
  • Day before Mother’s Day
  • TAMU Graduation Weekend
• At the Hearne Depot Train Museum:
  • Things to do:
    • Model trains that you can control
    • Handcar
    • Telegraph equipment
  • Will be holding an event with two other museums
  • Was open to having club hold a special event there
    • Maybe have some CW operators show how telegraphs are done!

Other Business

Brazos County ARES

Ron Hambric (N5SBN)

• Regular monthly meetings
• CEOC visits
• New TDEM District Headquarters facility on RELLIS campus
  • Joint Eclipse & severe weather exercise on 2024-04-08

Robertson County ARES

Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• Regular weekly net on W5KVN
  • Often, there are more visitors than ARES members
• Monthly meeting
  • need to find a new location
  • Will hold meeting at Hearne Train Depot on 2024-05-11
• N5ZKF: Grimes County net also Thursday evenings 19:00

W5AC

David Bailey (K5DKB)

• The 2m W5AC repeater is back on the air

Field Day Preparation

David Bailey (K5DKB)

• Field Day is only 3 months away!
  • 2024-06-22/23
• We need volunteers to help plan the festivities
• Raffle: do we want to keep doing it?
  • We almost lost money last year
  • Picking and acquiring prizes is hard
  • Selling tickets is a lot of work
  • People aren’t as willing to buy
  • Alternate ideas to encourage:
    • “split the pot”
    • door prizes
    • “micro-raffle” - sell tickets at the door for a few cheaper items
    • white elephant
  • In the past, we needed a fundraiser to keep money in the treasury
    • these days, we have more members, and some have made very generous donations to pay for club expenses in the past several years
    • ongoing regular expenses:
      • PO box
      • Food at meetings
    • we get the following for free:
      • repeater tower space (thanks, Charlie!)
      • meeting place (thanks, American Legion!)

K5DKB: be careful, we should probably leave this decision up to the committee.

• Committee responsibilities
  • Zoom meetings every other week (1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month 18:30)
• Interested members:
  • (club officers, of course)
  • Ron Estes (KJ5EFO)
  • Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
  • Russ McDonald (KL2PB)
  • Ken Wilson (KE5DFR)
  • Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
  • John Walker (W1JCW)
  • Jim Laird (KF5YY)
  • Robert O’Connell (KC5DWB)
• We’ll have a coordination Zoom meeting this coming Wedensday 18:30
  • Link will be sent out later

Health and Welfare / Good of the Order

• If anyone needs help with anything please reach out to the club. You can contact any of the officers at:
  • officers@bryanarc.org

Closing

Next Meeting

2024-05-18 09:30 at American Legion Post 159

After-Meeting Presentation

FCC CORES Sign-Up by Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)