Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club Business Meeting September 19, 2024

Business Meeting September 19, 2024

Don Dewar KD9NJR President called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

Attendees: 

Robert Kocourek W9RKK Charlene Treve K9CMZ Don Dewar KD9NJR
Daryl Jenks KB9RHR Paul Burkett KD9FMN Jim Neumann W9JWN
Tom O’Boyle N9GUN Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK Burch Seymour KE9BEI
Danny Kafka KD9HIL Joe Barela KB9RCR Steve Epstein WA9FZB
Rob Glowacki N9MVO John Schofield AC9JS Russ Schmidt KC9NUV
John Thornton KD9VZJ Jeff Gembala N9QF Bob Zuttermeister W9GEW
Cliff Sowka K9QD John Douglas KD9KSH Danny Meyers K9LDM
Alex Suptela W2DNA Eliot Libner N9EPA Leo Ribordy N9NBH
Chris Brewer AC9GN Rick Dickens KY0Q  

 ZOOM Virtual Attendees: 

Steve Karson AC9EM Bill Donovan KD9RGX Don Froula K9CLF
Howard Mitchell KD9WSV Pierre Berube K9EYE Kevin Willard KB9QVX
Kirk Musselman K9MSG    

 Secretary’s Report: 

Cliff Sowka K9QD: August Meeting Minutes as published in the RHG:

  • Danny Meyers K9LDM moved to approve and Steve Karson AC9EM seconded. Motion adopted.

Treasurer’s Report 

Chris Brewer AC9GN reported financials but this text is not updated at the moment:

Month:          June 2024                Report Generated on 6/17/2024

Checkbook Balance                                 05/30/24                                                                                   $6,551.46 

INCOME

20 Zelle deposits

 

06/xx/24

MEMO

$580.00 Dues (summarized)

$915.00
Cash 06/10/24 $100.00 Dues  
Teller deposit 06/18/24 $25.00 Dues  
Cash 06/27/24 $210.00 Dues  
 

DISBURSEMENTS

ACH

 

 

06/10/24

 

MEMO

$62.82 AT&T DSL

 

$62.82

   

Account Balance

 

$7,403.64

06/30/24 Bank Statement $7,403.64
 

Petty Cash

 

06/01/24

 

$100.00

From petty cash 06/21/24 -$36.00 Food tip
From petty cash 06/22/24 -$45.00 Food tip
Current 06/30/24 $19.00

 Funds Available  $7,422.64

76 members on roster w/ 5 more added tonight 

  • Alex Suptela W2DNA moved to approve and Robert Kocourek W9RKK seconded. Motion adopted. 

Construction Project (CP)  

Cliff Sowka K9QD:  CP returns the fourth Saturday of this month.  We’ve been taking a survey of potential projects and find three (3) members are interested in building Octopus HF Antenna but not achieving enough critical mass at the moment to justify the project yet.

Pierre K9EYE has provided sources for low-cost microcontroller Xcvr projects and we’ll probably be able to determine interest level during the first few CP sessions.

The club has received at substantial SK donation and the initial sorting/cataloging of equipment in underway and stored in the locked cabinets.  The amount of equipment donated is so large that we’ve emptied some storage shelves to accommodate the more valuable items and therefore placed our parts cabinets on the outside momentarily.

Inventory/model/value will require much effort so we’re going to be consuming time to achieve the listing during our first few meetings.  The goal is to offer the equipment to our members via an internal auction with suggested minimum bids probably to begin around 50% of recent eBay closed auctions.

Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK has received a thankyou letter from Schaumburg EOC management for SARC support Septemberfest and a file copy has been placed on a door of a storage cabinet.

VE Testing 

John Schofield AC9JS reports Test Results for September 7, 2024

Name Call Class
John KE9BIZ General
Jeff KE9BJB Technician
James KE9BJA Technician

 

Class  
Technician 2
General 1
Extra 0
Total 3

Participating Volunteer Examiners (VEs):

Bill Davies K9WKD
Ed Lishka AC9SD
James Migalla KC9UFB
John Schofield AC9JS
Joe Barela KB9RCR
Dave Carpenter W9VTD
Jon Wit KD9 WNL

Next examination date: October 5, 2024

John Schofield

Session Manager

AC9JS 

Repeaters 

Rob Glowacki N9MVO has been granted a $2,000 initial budget to hire professional antenna diagnostics for the 2M machine.  We’re blessed to have enough funds available to tackle the initial effort and even able to procure a new StationMaster antenna for water tank mounting if needed.

It would be good if we could produce a short video of the 2M Machine installation for display on our website.  Maybe we can record and narrate something when the antenna diagnostics is being performed.

Education: 

Leo Ribordy N9NBH reports we will provide a Technician Class for a 10-week run starting January 11, 2025 at the Hoffman Library facility on Hassle road.  Leo will be publishing an Instructor sign-up sheet to garner enough of our teaching members to help educate the expected Ham Radio candidates. 

Public Service 

Rob Glowacki N9MVO reported our SeptemberFest support for the Schaumburg Police was appreciated. 

Nominating Committee

Paul Burkett KD9FMN provided an update to the recruitment effort underway and reminded membership it would be good to step forward to participate in club leadership.  There are several Committee assignments open and we’re asking members to volunteer for these important roles. 

Social:  John Douglas KD9KSH not present.

Adjourn 7:59

Presentation:  Don Dewar KD9NJR provided a review of the new booklets for Committee Roles and the structures/authority defined in our club’s Constitution and Bylaws.  We have several committee vacancies at the moment and volunteers are needed to fill these important roles.

Submitted September 24, 2024

Cliff Sowka  K9QD

Secretary