10-11 (November 10) Meeting Report

The NBARC November meeting was held in the OPPCC and called to order at 1935ET. Present were...
 
VE3YO, VA3PC, VE3MAF, VE3GMG, VE3XKB, VA3WAC, VE3YUI, VA3SPT, VA3BDR, VE3LOR

Christmas Party!!
The NBARC Christmas Party will be held Thursday December 2nd at The Kings Buffet (same place as last year.) Meet and Greet 1830. Fine Dining 1900. Donations to the Santa Fund. Please sign up on the website to let us know you are coming. We need 25-30 in attendance to get the room at no cost. It is a great time and we don't stay out late. Hope to see you there!!
No correspondance.
No treasurer report. in January.
No new hams or members were present.
2 MTR net is still running. 0700-0800 Mondays and Dave VE3GTM is your net controller.
80 MTR net is still running. 0900 - ? Sundays 3.768 MHz. Paul VA3PC is your net controller. Averaging between 4 and 10 check-ins depending on propagation.
Echolink and IRLP are running well. Paul has the new real time clocks and will be installing it in VE3ERX shortly. VE3NFM is still off the air for a few repairs. VE3NFM-15 the APRS digi is now back up and running well. The radio didn't re-boot when the power came back on. This Saturday November 13th after coffee there is a work party at the repeater shack to finish up the last of the winterizing and de-mousing.
The NBARC Website looks good and is running well. Paul is going to be adding some security updates. He will also be looking at updating the ARES portion of the website.
Nothing new on the ARES front. the trailer is still at my place. The HF rigs are at Bill's place. There should be only antennas and a few other little things in the trailer.
HAMFESTS. Lively was held in October. it was well attended and a very good show for a First Time. they are looking at making it better next year. Everyone i talked to had a great time. York was held last weekend. It was a good show as well. We all had fun. Unfortunately our normal food place was closed. Next year we will run across to Haugins where the food is always good. The distances are just about identical.
There is no news from the Contest Club.
Paul read a couple of RAC bulletins. RAC is going to change the way it does business but it is going to take some time. For more info and the complete bulletins see the website. Paul posts all the bulletins there.
The committee looking after the equipment donated to the club is still working. They are getting up an inventory and looking at all aspects including loaning of equipment procedures. There should be more in january.
Incorporation is complete. We are now waiting on the insurance and that is tied to the number of club members that are RAC members. RAC is our national body and with industry always looking for more we should be supporting them. A RAC membership also reduces our costs and you get insurance with it.
The CEMPC for the city had a tour of the new water treatment facility in January. It was evidently quite interisting and LARGE.
The Hospital Walk/Run in October went quite well. Everything was handled on simplex. The course is probably going to change next year. They raised something in the area of $25K so am told.
Our next scheduled meeting is January 12th 2011. The meeting place is tentativelt at the OPPCC but until Paul gets that confirmed it is still tentative. I'll send an update when i get it.
Howard Moved adjournment. Coffee was held at TDH afterwards.
DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARTY DECEMBER 2nd. SEE YOU THERE
73/Drew VE3MAF