11-09 (September 14th) Meeting Report

The NBARC September meeting was held Wednesday September 14th 2011 in the OPP COMM Centre. The meeting was called to order about 1940ET by Bruce VA3BDR.
In attendance were, VA3BDR, VA3PC, VE3YO, VE3KAN, VA3DLJ, VE3XKB, VE3KAA, VE3DLL, VE3MAF.
CORRESPONDANCE: Nil
TREASURER: Bank Balance is up to date. Received money from the sale of club equipment from Doug VA3DLJ.
No new hams. We would like to welcome Bob VE3MF as a new member.
2 MTR net: Nothing new. There are a number of hams on Monday morning between 0700ET-0800ET on their way to work. Give a call and see who is around.
80 MTR net. Gerry VE3YO has been running it for the last few weeks. He is getting between 6-8 check ins with a high of about 11. Paul VA3PC will be very happy to get all his house renovations finished and back to running the net. He hopes it will be soon.
The new tower that VE3NBC will be residing on is basically complete. They are in the process of transferring the commercial antennas. Ours should be transfered within a month (hopefully). there will be a short outage while the transfer takes place.
Echolink/IRLP are working well.
The website is still running nicely. Paul VA3PC keeps it up to date. We are investigating getting out own NBARC domain name. Further discussion at the October meeting.
September 24th 2011 (a week Saturday) id the Northern Ontario Hamfest in Garson. The club has reserved 2 tables. There will be space on the tables for personal sales but 10% of sales will be donated to the club.  There are a number of us going to the hamfest. I have 2, possibly more seats available in my van. Drop a line to nbarc@ciinet.org if you are looking for a ride. I'm sure we can find a spare seat somewhere.
Contest Club. Nil
RAC. Paul VA3PC read a couple of RAC bulletins. They are all available on the website. It looks like we will be getting access to the 60M band (5MHz) in the future.
Summer in the Park went well and the organizers appear to be happy.
 
THE RUN OFF THE GRID is being held September 24th 2011 and our assistance has been requested. Unfortunately this conflicts with the Northern Ontario Hamfest in Garson and most of our members will be there. This is a request for volunteers. We need about 5-6 volunteers. If you can volunteer and are willing to volunteer PLEASE drop me a line at nbarc@ciinet.org BY SUNDAY. I will be letting TZACH know Sunday night if we are able to assist or not.
 
The next meeting will be held Wednesday October 12th at 1930ET at the OPP COMM Center. I won't be there as I will be on holidays so someone else will have to take notes.
73/Drew VE3MAF