HCRA Board of Directors Meeting
\n<\/b>March 11th, 2014<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0Location: West Springfield, MA. The meeting was called to order at 7:13PM
\nPresent: KK1W, KB1NWH, AA1YW, N1FJ, N1KXR, W1MSW<\/i><\/p>\n
OFFICER REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Vice President \u2013 KB1NWH Treasurer \u2013 AA1YW Secretary \u2013 Open \u2013 KK1W will take notes DIRECTOR REPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Technical \u2013 K1YO (not present) Zero Beat, N1FJ Membership \u2013 N1KXR At Large \u2013 Not present Program \u2013 W1MSW \u2013 Not present OLD BUSINESS Jim\/KK1W is working on reaching out to members and encouraging them to join the board.<\/p>\n Ed\/KB1NWH reported the Town of Agawam is happy to have us back for Field Day 2014. There is construction at the park but it shouldn’t pose any problems.<\/p>\n Dave, Jeff and Jim will develop a ‘PayPal’ workflow so next year’s Treasurer will be in a position to handle the high renewal influx. W1MSW and KB1NWH tell us Field Day 2014 planning in underway and on schedule. There was some discussion about providing food. General consensus was not to do so again this year. The main reasons are close proximity to many restaurants and a lack of a ‘food person’ to run the job. They would entertain providing coffee\/donuts on Saturday and Sunday morning if a volunteer is found to do it.<\/p>\n Our new contact person at HMC is now Doug\/KB1JC.<\/p>\n 2013\/2014 Board Meeting Dates Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM<\/p>\n Respectfully submitted by Jim Mullen\/KK1W<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HCRA Board of Directors Meeting March 11th, 2014 \u00a0Location: West Springfield, MA. The meeting was called to order at 7:13PM Present: KK1W, KB1NWH, AA1YW, N1FJ, N1KXR, W1MSW OFFICER REPORTS Vice President \u2013 KB1NWH More antenna installation with Eric\/W1MOR Treasurer \u2013 AA1YW Current financial report: $9666.49 Status of WRTC Sales: $5713.00 sold to date Status of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMore antenna installation with Eric\/W1MOR<\/p>\n
\nCurrent financial report: $9666.49
\nStatus of WRTC Sales: $5713.00 sold to date
\nStatus of FT857 raffle: \u00a0Net profit for this raffle: $910.
\nIt is noted we have a payable due WRTC by June 1st for $4000 for the WRTC stations.
\nWe have a balance of $28.52 in our PayPal account.<\/p>\n
\nEd is handling USPS PO Box pickup. All mail is up to date<\/p>\n
\nApril’s Tech corner will expand to fill the whole meeting with the subject of Yagi antennas.<\/p>\n
\nFrandy is close to securing a service that can print and mail the USPS Zero Beats. He will be testing it \u00a0and have results for us at the May meeting.<\/p>\n
\nCurrent Membership: 74 Regular, 9 Family, 3 Life and 7 Prospects
\nMembers joining after March 1 will have an expiration date of 8\/31\/2015
\nRich is working on a method of following up with non-renewed members from 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n
\nVenture Crew 510 Charter should be on track for renewal.<\/p>\n
\nApril: \u2013 Bob\/K1YO on Yagi Antennas
\n<\/b>May:\u00a0 Chuck\/ARRL on the ARRL\u2019s \u201cIntruder Watch\u201d program
\nJune: Field Day planning, N1MM workshop, elections<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The ‘cloud database’ has not been completed. The board decided to stay with our present Access database. Ed is maintaining it and Bob\/K1YO has offered to help with queries.<\/p>\n
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\nNEW BUSINESS
\n<\/strong>Our table at the MTARA hamfest was a great success. We had lot’s of staff for the table and many visitors. Raffle ticket sales were brisk. HCRA donated two tickets to MTARA for raffle prizes during the hamfest. The drawing was held at noon and the winner was Frandy\/N1FJ. HCRA thanks MTARA for their generous hospitality. (KK1W)<\/p>\n
\nMay 6th
\nJune 10th<\/p>\n