Central Florida Geek Amateur Radio Society

General Meeting, Thursday, March 31, 2005

Meeting Agenda

 

This agenda can be found online at

http://www.ke3vin.org/radio/cfgars/

 

CFGARS Web site:

http://www.cfgars.org/

 

Current configured officers

 

President - David Billsbrough (KC4ZVW)

Vice President – Chris Shepherd (K3PV)

Treasurer – Gil Young (W1GJY)

Secretary – Albert Pratts (K7FHP)

Public Relations Officer - open

Technical Director – open

Property Master - open

 

Appointed Officers

 

Webmaster – Albert Pratts

Mailing List Maintainer – Kevin Inscoe (KE3VIN) 407-230-3057

 

 

  1. Old Business?

 

  1. Treasurers report.

 

  1. Decision to pay annual corporation fees to State of Florida.

 

  1. New email lists for CFGARS now located at:

 

Main announcement and club discussion (ONLY!) list - http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgars

 

Field Day preparation - http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgars-fd

 

Officer’s discussion - http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgars-officers

 

New list! For technical and news discussions (to take off of main list) –

 

http://mail.cfgeeks.org/mailman/listinfo/cfgars-talk

 

Please use this list for general chatter and leave the main list clear for club announcements or discussion (such as meetings or events).

 

The old Yahoo Groups list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cfgars/

 

Will remain indefinitely for archival purposes; however the main introduction message on Yahoo Groups has been modified to point folks to the new list structure. Albert needs to update web site to reflect this also.

 

  1. Membership dues and voting. Proposed $10 annual dues for voting members. Associate members join for free but can not vote in elections or at meetings on proposals.

 

  1. Election date for officers, proposed to be next meeting in May. Voting members must have dues into current Treasurer by May meeting in order to vote in elections.

 

  1. Bylaws update? Suggestions for templates:

 

LEAP-CF Bylaws?

 

http://www.leap-cf.org/article.php3?article=bylaws

 

  1. Repeater discussion. Voice repeater? Digipeater? Both?

 

  1. Field Day

 

Maps and info - http://www.ke3vin.org/radio/cfgars/

 

Tasks and setup Wiki - http://wiki.ke3vin.org/

 

            We rented a camping cabin that sleeps 8-10. Trees nearby. Site survey? When?

 

  1. Club purpose

 

FCC says:

 

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/

 

“(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.

(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.

(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communications and technical phases of the art.

(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.

(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill.”

 

CFGARS exists as a collective of experimenters who seek to learn, teach, share and improve the State of the Art in Amateur Radio and Digital Communications. What is CFGARS to you?

  1.  What can we do to improve? What do you want out of CFGARS?

 

  1. Next meeting?

 

Parting thoughts:

 

CFGARS is what you make out of it. If you want involvement, get involved. There is plenty to do. CFGARS is and always will be an open society. You voice counts and we need your input. But most of all let’s make CFGARS fun!