{"id":8699,"date":"2014-09-18T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecngx342.inmotionhosting.com\/~hcraor5\/\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2014-09-18T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T23:59:32","slug":"board-meeting-minutes-aug-12-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/?p=8699","title":{"rendered":"Board Meeting Minutes Aug 12, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCRA Board of Directors Minutes<\/p>\n<p>Aug 15, 2014 7:15 PM at W1AST QTH<br \/>\nOFFICER REPORTS<br \/>\nVice President \u2013 W1MOR<br \/>\nReport<br \/>\nProjects: New tower at W1MOR QTH<br \/>\nFD with royal rangers set up station in Gardner, MA with multiple antennae<br \/>\nTurned a number of youth into amateur radio<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer &#8211; AA1YW Not Present<br \/>\n(Items)<br \/>\nEd still needs to be added on Checks<br \/>\nPay-Pal Jeff to work with Dave on process<\/p>\n<p>Secretary \u2013 WM1B<br \/>\nReport- Minutes of June meeting accepted (MSP)<br \/>\nMinutes will be sent out within 2 weeks of BOD meeting to the board for approval. Put a final on the web site after board approval.<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTOR REPORTS<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013 K1YO Not Present<br \/>\nNo Report<\/p>\n<p>Zero Beat, WA1MOW<br \/>\nReport: Needs input to add to ZB Deadline is 20th of month.<br \/>\nHam of the month: Still to be determined as to who. Suggest Shack of Month?<br \/>\nPicture page. Tidbit column. Website of month. Welcome new members Name, Call, Town.<br \/>\nSecretary to obtain the members who are getting hard copy. Contact to see if EM is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Membership &#8211; N1KXR<br \/>\nReport<br \/>\nStarting in September, will want a report for member totals (get them from the Secretary)<br \/>\nOnly put what is on the App in the E-Mail List<br \/>\nMoved(W1AST)MFJ 266B ($299.95) Antenna Analyzer as a Membership Raffle for all who renew at or before the October meeting. Drawing at end October meeting. Seconded (W1MOR) Passed. AA1YW to purchase.<br \/>\nNew Ham Packet to be assembled for those new Hams<\/p>\n<p>At Large \u2013 NT1K<br \/>\nReport<br \/>\nWeb site has been updated. Account has been paid up for two additional years. It receives about 50 hits per day.<br \/>\nMake changes so that purchase can be made from Pay pal account<br \/>\nRequest that a Square be obtained for processing credit cards at meeting<\/p>\n<p>Program \u2013 W1AST<br \/>\nReport<br \/>\nUpcoming Meetings?<br \/>\nOctober open<br \/>\nNovember open<\/p>\n<p>OLD BUSINESS<br \/>\nNone<\/p>\n<p>NEW BUSINESS<\/p>\n<p>250 Raffle\u2026.KX3..#sold approximately 20 tickets sold<br \/>\nQSL manager NT1K agreed to be QSL Manager along with LOTW. Ed gave him PW<\/p>\n<p>Drop box table for next meeting. Account created, Ed has access.<\/p>\n<p>Move to get rid of Yahoo BOD group. Perhaps a Private FB Page. We also have a BB on HCRA<\/p>\n<p>Need to assist and develop Elmers<\/p>\n<p>NT1K planning a Ham Class this fall. Plans Need to be developed<\/p>\n<p>ACTION ITEMS<\/p>\n<p>W1MOR Packet for VE exams<\/p>\n<p>AA1YW put Ed on checks.<\/p>\n<p>N1KXR get total memberships from secretary at Sept meeting<\/p>\n<p>W1AST BOD T-shirts Dark, Black or Navy Blue. Order Name badges<\/p>\n<p>K1YO<\/p>\n<p>NT1K publish May &amp; June minutes To send us a group message to give us access to check out BB<\/p>\n<p>WA1MOW Send list to secretary from Frandy of those who get hard copies of ZB<\/p>\n<p>WM1B get minutes out to BOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCRA Board of Directors Minutes Aug 15, 2014 7:15 PM at W1AST QTH OFFICER REPORTS Vice President \u2013 W1MOR Report Projects: New tower at W1MOR QTH FD with royal rangers set up station in Gardner, MA with multiple antennae Turned a number of youth into amateur radio Treasurer &#8211; AA1YW Not Present (Items) Ed still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}