{"id":36835,"date":"2018-04-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecngx342.inmotionhosting.com\/~hcraor5\/\/?p=36835"},"modified":"2018-04-02T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:38:00","slug":"hcra-board-of-directors-meeting-29-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/?p=36835","title":{"rendered":"HCRA Board of Directors Meeting  29-March-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>HCRA Board of Directors meeting 2<\/b><b>9-Mar<\/b><b>-2018<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Attendees:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President \u2013 WM1B (Dave)<\/p>\n<p>Vice President &#8211; OPEN<\/p>\n<p>Secretary \u2013 N1FTP (Harold)<\/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><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Absent:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"__DdeLink__153_3065183565\"><\/a><a name=\"__DdeLink__68_1772069132\"><\/a> Treasurer \u2013 NV1Q (Juergen)<\/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><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">President Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For NEQP, (New England QSO Party), the Hampden County rules and award Plaque will change to \u201cLow Power\u201d to make it more attainable for others.<\/li>\n<li>At our next meeting, we will ask the membership for a volunteer to be the HCRA QSL Manager.<\/li>\n<li>The Post Office box issue has been resolved by WM1B and N1FTP going to the Agawam Post Office to renew, make document changes, and receive new keys. The PO Box number remains the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Vice President Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OPEN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Secretary Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approval of previous Board of Director\u2019s meeting minutes. Motion: K1YO, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>: K1VOI, Approved: YES<\/li>\n<li>Fifty more copies of the membership welcome package have been made and given to WM1B for distribution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Treasurers Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Treasurers report is available on request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Program Director Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apr, Show &amp; Tell<\/li>\n<li>May, ARRL representative<\/li>\n<li>Jun, Field Day<\/li>\n<li>Sep, Open<\/li>\n<li>Oct, DX Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Nov, ARRL Section Manager, Ray, KB1LRL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">At Large Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing to report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Membership Report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>77members so far for 2018 John will put a reminder in Zero Beat for membership renewals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Technical Director:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>K1YO informed the BOD that the classes are ready and that he will present the class information at the next member meeting. The classes will be for 2-3 people at a time.<\/li>\n<li>K1YO has also received a request for help from N1TA.<\/li>\n<li>An article on RFI tracking was found and will be mentioned at the next member meeting as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\">Zero Beat Editor:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing to report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>Old Business:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211; <\/b>K1VOI is working on W1NY\/WB1Z qsl cards. The design has already been chosen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>New Business:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work is being done on Membership dues vs payment tracking. Membership dues needs to be reconciled with the Treasurer.<\/li>\n<li>An offer will be made to the membership that if they did not pay their 2018 dues by now and they do at the time of the meeting, they will be good until the end of 2019. Do we need to change when dues are paid to coincide with our Fiscal Calendar as well?<\/li>\n<li>More representation is needed at the VE sessions. Hand out welcome pamphlets, help with membership forms, determine interests, offer to bring or meet at the next meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The Rookie Round-up is coming and the rules have changed quite a bit to encourage more rookie operators. Bring changes to member meeting and offer help and guidance to potential participants.<\/li>\n<li>Greenfield College is offering extended indepth training for the Technicians Class License. WM1B and K1YO are looking into local sites for a Tech Class cram session.<\/li>\n<li>WM1B made a very useful \u201cCalendar of Events\u201d document for the BOD to keep track of financial obligations, tax times, insurance renewals, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>Open Floor Discussion: (GOO \u2013 Good of the Order)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Field Day 2018 if fast approaching.<\/li>\n<li>K1YO has made an extensive list of what he needs to have done:<\/li>\n<li>Need help with the site\/equipment setup on Friday June 22.<\/li>\n<li>Need help for the tear-down on June 24.<\/li>\n<li>Band captains for each station established are needed\u2026 list to follow when it is determined how many stations we will operate this year.<\/li>\n<li>Assistance is needed for the pre-FD equipment testing in early June. Antenna hardware checks, testing the cable runs, and filter\/splitter testing.<\/li>\n<li>Food preparation will be handled my Mr and Mrs W1AST.<\/li>\n<li>Publicity\/Public Relations help is needed.<\/li>\n<li>Transportation of the club equipment trailer to\/from storage on Friday and Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Station operators and loggers needed during the actual event.<\/li>\n<li>Odds and ends like small quiet generators and loaner equipment will likely be needed again.\n<p align=\"center\"><b>All this will be brought up at the next members meeting.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; W1AST has made a great Field Day Proposal for those that help out at the Field Day event. It is the purchase of a uBitz transceiver kit that will be raffled off to only those that help out during the field day event. Details will be brought to the next member meeting. A motion was made and approved for the purchase of the uBitz transceiver. Motion: K1YO, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>: K1VOI, Approved: YES.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>Next Board of Director\u2019s meeting will be on <\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>19-April<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #ce181e;\"><b>-2018.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Meeting Closed at 9:00pm &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCRA Board of Directors meeting 29-Mar-2018 Attendees: President \u2013 WM1B (Dave) Vice President &#8211; OPEN Secretary \u2013 N1FTP (Harold) Tech. Dir \u2013 K1YO (Bob) Program Dir. \u2013 W1AST (Larry) Membership \u2013 K1VOI (John) Absent: Treasurer \u2013 NV1Q (Juergen) 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-36835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36835","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=36835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}