Minutes of the 
Mid-MO Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
Jefferson City, MO



Meeting of:  July 12, 2001

Meeting called to order by Kurt Bleich (KBØHNR)

In attendance:  WØJES, AAØZC, KØEMT, NØOFD, KCØCZI, NØSS, KBØQHZ, KAØOUV, NØIB, NØZH, KØDXR, 
WBØTPK, WNØX, KBØHNR, KCØIFL, WØRAJ, K9ZTV, NØMV, NØQOI, KCØJDW, KCØACQ, {KAØUAP, Marzene 
Hickam - guests for testing} 

Date / location of the next meeting:  August 9, 2001.  Central United Church of Christ, corner of Washington and 
W. Ashley Streets.   Enter from the alley on the east side of the church (midway up the alley).

Minutes:  Minutes from the meetings of  June 14, 2001 were read, corrections noted, motioned and seconded for 
approval.

Bank balance:  $1831.51

Old business:

2 Meter Net Report:   	Dave  (NØMV)	13
			Tom  (NØSS)	10
			Joe (KBØQHZ)	 7
			Tom (WØRAJ)	 ?

2 Meter Repeater Report:   Lack of power output, re-wired the keying circuits, leads on pass  , removed all 
pre-circuitry, Tim (KAØOUV) did a voltage measurement, modified keying circuits, finally put it back in the 
tower, but had no output.  Emitter leads on final amp transistors had cold solder joints, so after re-heating 
them the repeater seems to be working OK.

Mid-States wastes getting into repeater.  Tri-Star will test the base station at Mid-State.  Now Jeff City 
Police Department is being heard on the repeater.  CTCSS decode is working properly.  KAØOUV will 
continue to work on the problem.   We could put another atennuator on the receive, but would need 
another set of slugs.  Tom is fairly confident that the interference coming from Mid-State Waste is their 
problem.  Spur signals could be mixing with other signals.

Digi-peater Report:  APRS digipeater is now on a higher antenna tower.  The club's digipeater was not on 
the air when KBØHNR listened for it.  Digipeater's call sign has changed from WØSMI-3 to KCØIRJ-3.  Not 
currently configured as a relay.  We have two separate repeaters:  443.175 and 443.375.
	
Emergency Coordinator Report:   NØOFD and KCØCZI met with the Red Cross and provided some 
information to help them with a grant for some radio communications equipment.  No emergencies, no 
skywarn activation.

Direction Finding Report:  Eric Raub has moved to Joplin.  There is a newer and better Doppler unit on the 
market which will be a worthy replacement for the kit Eric was working on.  We will be re-evaluating our 
DF 'direction'.

	Field Day Summary:  
Set-up went smoothly.  We were ahead of schedule setting up, but some confusion slowed things down a 
bit.  VHF was on the air at 1:00 pm sharp.  Checks were written to KBØHNR for sanitary dump charges for 
the DPS van and Corrections vehicle, NØQOI for diesel fuel for the generators, KCØCZI for food.  

1,172   CW QSO's
   913   phone QSO's
7714    points is a new record by approximately 200 points

MMARC will probably be in the top 25 out of 530 - 540 entries.  We have been in the top 25 every year 
except one for the past 15 years.

Future improvement depends on better contest operating technique by the membership.   We should try to 
get more practice doing other contests through out the year.  We should also try to involve more kids and 
young folks.  Possibly hand out information about Field Day when we do the Earth Day special event. 

'Thank You' letters are being sent out to the agencies that provided us with equipment, and to Maytag for 
the use of their field.

New business:

MS 150 is coming up in September.  Want to improve and co-ordinate the APRS activities and equipment.	
May want to use the DPS tower, but would have to find a different location.  That may create a problem 
with operating out of the mayor's trailer for net control.

Jamboree on the Air:  Coming up in October.  

Halloween Special Event:	

2 Meter Net Controllers:	

	July 18th	Mike Dolson  (NØZH)
	July 25th	Dave Taylor  (NØMV)
	August 1st	Ben Hoffman  (NØOFD)
	August 8th	Kevin Brown  (KCØCZI)	

Ten Meter CW Net has been moved to 10:00 on Wednesday nights.  Tune to 28.258 MHz.

Respectfully submitted DATE: Steven C. Klenc, KCØACQ, Secretary-Treasurer

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