{"id":36770,"date":"2018-02-25T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecngx342.inmotionhosting.com\/~hcraor5\/\/?p=36770"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T16:12:26","slug":"hcra-bod-meeting-22-feb-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/?p=36770","title":{"rendered":"HCRA BOD Meeting 22-Feb-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><b>HCRA Board of Directors meeting 22-Feb-2018<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Attendees:<\/p>\n<p>President \u2013 WM1B (Dave)<\/p>\n<p>Vice President &#8211; OPEN<\/p>\n<p>Secretary \u2013 N1FTP (Harold)<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"__DdeLink__153_3065183565\"><\/a><a name=\"__DdeLink__68_1772069132\"><\/a> Treasurer \u2013 NV1Q (Juergen)<\/p>\n<p>Tech. Dir \u2013 K1YO (Bob)<\/p>\n<p>Program Dir. \u2013 W1AST (Larry)<\/p>\n<p>Membership \u2013 K1VOI (John)<\/p>\n<p>Absent:<\/p>\n<p>Zero Beat Ed. \u2013 W1MOW (Gary)<\/p>\n<p>At Large \u2013 KB1RXO (Karl)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Meeting Open at 7:00pm &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>President Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find ways to get out into the community to promote ham radio as well as HCRA.<\/li>\n<li>Discussed the importance of a \u201cGet On The Air\u201d station at field day to get interested people on the air. Maybe setup another local repeater group to communicate with. Would benefit both clubs. Make it a part of the visitor station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vice President Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OPEN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Secretary Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approval of previous Board of Director\u2019s meeting minutes. Harold suggested changing the wording from \u201cadditional Director Positions\u201d to \u201cadditional Liaison position\u2019s\u201d. Approved and accepted.<\/li>\n<li>Raffle tickets sales are at 90 and it looks like we will meet our quota and be able to have the raffle at the MTARA flea.<\/li>\n<li>A table has been reserved at the MTARA flea. Harold will bring our banner and setup shop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Treasurers Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Treasurers report is available on request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Program Director Report<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March, John Ellsworth, Vintage Radio Museum in CT.<\/li>\n<li>April, Show &amp; Tell<\/li>\n<li>May,\u00a0Steve Ford (WB8IMY) from ARRL<\/li>\n<li>June, DX engineering and Elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Large Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing to report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Membership Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>68 members so far for 2018 (54 members in total, 8 prospects, 2 family, and 4 lifetime members). John will put a reminder in Zero Beat for membership renewals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technical Director:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob has made some outstanding progress on his technical projects for select club members. He has completed his first overall tests and is very satisfied with the results. More to do and more to follow.<\/li>\n<li>Bob has also formulated a list of committees that are needed for a successful Field Day. This will be discussed at our next member\u2019s meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zero Beat Editor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing to report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Old Business:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A reminder that each director needs to write down what they think their job descriptions are. So far, descriptions have come in from the Technical Director and Secretary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>New Business:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Vice President position is still open.<\/li>\n<li>Juergen will order the Yaesu FT-891 and ATAS-120A as the raffle prize for the MTARA flea.<\/li>\n<li>Access to our trailer is needed to retrieve the HCRA advertisement board for display at the flea. Bob, K1YO will be handling this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Open Floor Discussion: (GOO \u2013 Good of the Order)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who will be responsible for sending out QSL\u2019s to operators that contacted W1NY and\/or WB1Z? John will work on designing and purchasing QSL cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>Next Board of Director\u2019s meeting will be on 22-March-2018 with a backup date of 29-March-2018.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Meeting Closed at 7:40pm &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCRA Board of Directors meeting 22-Feb-2018 Attendees: President \u2013 WM1B (Dave) Vice President &#8211; OPEN Secretary \u2013 N1FTP (Harold) Treasurer \u2013 NV1Q (Juergen) Tech. Dir \u2013 K1YO (Bob) Program Dir. \u2013 W1AST (Larry) Membership \u2013 K1VOI (John) Absent: Zero Beat Ed. \u2013 W1MOW (Gary) At Large \u2013 KB1RXO (Karl) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Meeting Open at 7:00pm &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}