Feb 25

LSARC Meeting Minutes

February 8, 2025

Meeting was called to order by Rudy Behrens at 1212

No meeting last month so there will not be a reading of the minutes.

Treasurers Report: Susan Wall

Current balance $2027.08 in regular checking

6 month CD $374.61,7 mo. CD $369.91 for a total of $744.42

It was noted that one of the new repeaters has been installed by Scott Hawes. Rudy

Behrens was present but unable to give anything more that moral support

We had a brief discussion about the future potential we have as a ham radio club and the

equipment that would be needed.

Scott Hawes has some prospects for obtaining equipment that we will need

Motion was made by Walt Phelps and seconded by Susan Wall that Scott, could proceed

with the purchase of a radio that he is pursuing if it becomes available. Motion carried.

I reported to the club that I had spoken with Rodney Balance that morning and that we are

really not much closer to having a static IP address that we were when the project started

well over a year ago.

Scott also provided us with a spreadsheet containing the names, etc of all the repeaters in

a certain radius of where Scott lives and he was able to hit almost all of them with 50 watts

It contains the location, frequency, offset, etc. of each one.

New Business:

Scott brought us up-to-date on the outage we experienced a few days ago. One of the

problems seems to be that our battery back-up needs to be replace. I volunteered to look

into obtaining some rebuilt deep cycle marine or better would be golf cart batteries and get

a price on them. (led acid)

Scott brought to our attention the availability of some coax that we need for the second

antenna on our tower. This is through a company that he buys his coax from. 100 foot

would cost us about $170.00. Susan mentioned that there was quite a bit of coax in the shop at her house and we agreed to look at that first but otherwise to go ahead with buying

the new coax.

Rudy Behrens made a motion to purchase 100 ft. of the LHR 400 coax from ADR if there

was none that was usable at Susans. Seconded by Walt. Motion carried.

Jim made a motion that we adjourn the meeting and Susan 2"d. Motion carried.

Respectfully submitted by

Reta Behrens, Secretary