Date: February 14, 2011

1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
3. Introductions
4. Old Business
   1. Minutes of January 10, 2011 – motion to accept/vote.  Members voted unanimously to accept minutes.
   2. Treasurer’s report – Phil reports on the treasury figures – motion to accept was made and the members voted to accept the treasurer’s report.
   3. New Business
      1. New Members – Ed Sarlls KT5YZ is requesting full membership.  Members voted to accept his application from last month
      2. Attendee introduction and visitors identified – Peter Farver, KD5OCR, came to visit from Auburn University.  The Club welcomed Peter.
      3. Discussion on proposed changes to by-laws, constitution and membership application.  KARS Secretary Chris distributed the proposed edits to the Constitution, By-Laws and ballot.  Following discussion, Proposition 1 voted in favor with one opposed.  Discussion followed on Proposition 2 of the ballot and a motion was made to accept it on the ballot as proposed.  Sixteen members voted to accept Proposition 2 as written with two opposed.  Discussion on Proposition 3 of the ballot – members discussed the clause to removal of members by supermajority as proposed on the ballot.  Motion to accept the proposed sentence relating to removal of a member with supermajority vote with 13 accepting and 4 opposed.  Following acceptance to keep the supermajority sentence, a motion was made and seconded to accept Proposition 3 – the vote to accept carried unanimously.  Proposition 4 was motioned, seconded and accepted with one opposed.  Discussion on Proposition 5 was focused on simplifying the language on the ballot.  A motion was made for Section 5 of the By-Laws to read, “The QRM Committee shall consist of five members appointed by the Club President.  This Committee shall direct investigations, invite proper inquiries, establish technical facts and testimony within its province and report its findings to the entire club.” The motion was accepted and the club voted unanimously to accept this simplified language in Proposition 5.  The Club Secretary will prepare and send out a revised ballot to the club prior to the next club meeting.  The Club Secretary announced that vote on the proposed changes will be held at the next club meeting at 7:30 PM, Monday, March 14, 2011 at the West I-10 Fire Station #4 on Franz Road, just east of Grand Parkway.
      4. Discussion on tax filings – the club filed its taxes with the Comptroller’s office, changed KARS fiscal year from March through February to January through December.  Revised tax years for the 2006 through 2010 calendar years were filed with the State Comptroller’s office.  Once favorable response is received, a request for good standing form will be filed with the Corporations Bureau of the Texas Secretary of State.  Finally, Darryl requested that the club not consider now or at any time in the future, the collection of sales tax for any purpose.  Members are individually responsible for the collection and payment of any sales taxes due.
      5. Committees – discussion on (i) Equipment and Maintenance, (ii) Boy Scout Liaison, (iii) Training and Emergency Ops
      6. Towers and Radio Room – Dave Land provides update on the towers and Joy Lancaster Radio Room progress report.
      7. Election Committee – Election Committee presents their nomination of candidates.  The President reviewed Article I, Section 2 of the club Constitution.  Del Partridge, as chairman of the nomination committee, presented the slate of officers.  Joe Peet as President, Dave Land as Vice President, Chris Haase as Secretary, Michael Smith as Activities Manager and Ron McDonald as Treasurer.  A motion was made to accept the slate of officer candidates as presented by Del Partridge.  The Club unanimously voted to accept the proposed slate of officers.
      8. Award certificate presentation – Joe presented award certificates to multiple members.

1. Refreshments
2. Presentations
   1. Mike Brennan – Scouts Program
   2. Marshall dues – Short Presentation

Attendees

KD5FX              Dave Land

AE5QB             Tom Maxwell

KF5JHY            Ron Robertson

W5QQ              Del Partridge

WB5FFD           Ron McDonald

W5IDF              Sachiko Peet

K5MMD            Marshall Dues

WA5NSF          Larry Doyle

AD5KB              Bernie White

KT5BBQ           Charles Lancaster

KT5SR              Scott Reeve

KF5CZO            Owen Morgan

KT5US              Jerry Cammack

KJ5OW             Phil Burrow

KA5OXA           Mike Brennan

KK5LG              Darrell Glueck

WD8RZA           Dave Scott

W5OIL              Chris Haase

Call to Order

Motion made and passed to approve last months club meeting minutes

Tres. report made by Phil, bal $2,073.95 after all bills are paid. 2011 dues are due before Mar. 31st. Motion to accept made and passed to approve.

New members, 3 this month, Ron Robertson KF5JHY, Alina Peet KF5HOB and Richard Remels KF5JHX. Motion made and passed for both folks to join.

Visitors – Jim Andrew, K5UI, 30 yr ham. Heard about us on the KARS 2 meter net. Ed Sarlls KT5YZ also attended, a former member and past club president.

Mike, N5TGL made a presentation on Winter Field Day to be held at his house, motion made and passed to make it an official club function. Be sure to sign up with Mike if you are interested in attending.

Dave, KD5FX made a presentation on the Fire Station Ham Station. Hopes to dig tower foundations this Friday Jan. 14th, needs help. Passed around a signup sheet. Also needs to spend up to $750 from KARS account to be paid back from Darrell’s grant money to get holes dug and concrete poured. Motion made and passed. Also need to order or build some open line feedline to feed G5RV antenna, need $75 to do this, Motion made and passed.

Joe discussed taking over the BTARS club, this is the official club for the USS Texas. Several radios have been donated to the batleship by Stan and Jackie Bryn to get the radio room in operation. He also donated two vintage WWII radios to KARS, a RPBB and RPBC, they are receivers only.

Chris has got all our paperwork in with the State to get our tax issue updated, waiting to hear back from them on this.

Motion made and passed to elect Del W5GG as the KARS board election committee lead.

If anyone has time to volunteer for this event in the Woodlands, they could use some more help.
73, Charles Finlay (K5CPF)
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Here’s the info site and it’s where operators can sign up to help: http://www.woodlands-event-comms.info/cbi/

It’s my web site site, and the idea for most operators is to take an assignment on where to be for the duration of the bike ride (until the turtle passes them by).

There will be a t-shirt, and some food (including liquid refreshment) after your assignment is done, at the race start/finish.

The event is being run by The Woodlands Township Parks & Recreation department, with funds earned going back into supporting local groups.

The Township really appreciates our support – At the beginning of this year, they nominated me (and all the other operators that help) as one of only three in the entire Woodlands area as ‘volunteer of the year’ – which is a very unexpected but appreciated recognition for the help we Hams gave them last year. They really do appreciate the help we give them.

If there are any operators that can help, the help will be very much appreciated.

The event is coming up very soon, so please, the sooner the better in terms of registering to help.

All the very best,
Peter Belbin KE5STL

KARS Minutes

03/14/2011

7:30 PM

The meeting was called to order at 7:30 pm by Joe Peet, President. The pledge to the flag was given.

Minutes of 02/14/2011-Minutes are posted on the web.  Motion made and seconded to accept the minutes on the web.

Treasurer’s report-29 people paid up with 3 being paid tonight.  Bank balance given.

Notice of unpaid dues- We had a brief discussion of unpaid dues with the few that are unpaid are by members who have moved out of the area.

Other old business-None

New Business

New Members-Dean Scott, WJ5M, and Peter Farver, KD5OCR, have presented an application for membership. Voting will occur at the next meeting.

Visitors-Dean Scott. Peter Farver, Gene Reed, W5EMR, 1^st visit.

Vote count on changes to by-laws and constitution-17 ballots received and all were unanimous. New officers are:  President-Joe Peet, Vice President-Dave Land, Secretary-Chris Haase, Treasurer, Ron McDonald and Activities Director, Mike Smith.

Vote count for board of directors-17 ballots received and all were in the yea.

Brief update on tax fillings-Check owed for $70.00 to State and we will be back in good standing.

Update on the towers and radio room-Owen stated no changes since the last meeting.  Some of the club members operated the equipment last Saturday. Darrell asked that we keep a log in the station that specifies who operated and on what band with contacts listed.

Award certificates presented-Richard  Remels was presented a 1^st time NCOs award. Owen has posted a video on the web site about what the club is doing.

Next month the ARRL West Gulf Division Director, John Stratton, N5AUS, will be here to speak with us about what they are doing in the Texas Legislature.

Refreshments followed by Owen Morgan doing a presentation on vacuum tube technology and Tom Maxwell on the junior high ham club.

Such a busy Saturday we had at WI-10 VFS.

KARS conducted HAM test at 9:00am. We had 6 people showed up – 1 for upgrade, and 5 for new licenses. As the result, we have 3 new General and 3 new Technicians.

We then had Mike B. (KA5OXA), Charlie L. (KT5BBQ), and John M. (KE5EJM) working to put Navy radios into the cabinet. Peter F. (KD5OCR) has using the fire station antenna and PC, trying out his newly acquired radio.

Overall, it was busy and fruitful Saturday!

KARS Weekly Tuesday Net

DATE: April 26th, 2011 (Tuesday)
PRE NET: 1930 hours (7:30 pm)
NET TIME: 2000 hours (8:00 pm)
FREQ: 147.200 PL 141.3 HZ
NCS: Mr. Joe Peet (N5IDF)

Pre-net: 1930 hours (7:30) Open discussions, we can discuss anything…

Net topic (Question): TBD

Please check the Net Script so you can read along for the practice.

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KARS Holyland DXpedition was held at Fort Travis (Bolivar Peninsula) Galveston TX on 04/15&16. Peter Farver (KD5OCR) Paul Glosch (KF5ENT), Ron McDonald (WB5FFD), Del Partridge (W5QQ), Joe Peet (N5IDF), Mike Smith (NT5GL), and myself crossed the ship channel to Fort Travis.

This gathering was planned to make a contact to Israel Amateur Radio Club which was holding their 20th annual Holyland Contest on Friday April 15 and Saturday the 16th from 2100 to 2100UTC.

Most of us were able to make the contact, and whole bunch more to other contests as there were so many events going on that weekend. Good fellowship, beautiful weather, more than enough to eat… we sure had a great time.

Photos are courtesy of Ron McDonald.

DATE: April 19th, 2011 (Tuesday)
PRE NET: 1930 hours (7:30 pm)
NET TIME: 2000 hours (8:00 pm)
FREQ: 147.200 PL 141.3 HZ
NCS: Ms. Sachiko Peet (W5IDF)

Pre-net: 1930 hours (7:30) Open discussions, we can discuss anything…

Net topic (Question): What’s your most memorable operation/event and why?

Please check the Net Script so you can read along for the practice.

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For sale ICOM IC-718. It is a nice solid beginner
rig, no bells and whistles, 100 watts, 10-80 meters, AM SSB CW, low mileage. $ 450
Contact Jack Philley, 

DATE: April 12th, 2011 (Tuesday)
PRE NET: 1930 hours (7:30 pm)
NET TIME: 2000 hours (8:00 pm)
FREQ: 147.200 PL 141.3 HZ
NCS: Mr. Dave Land (KD5FX)

Pre-net: 1930 hours (7:30) Open discussions, we can discuss anything…

Net topic (Question): What’s your favorite Field Day memory?

Please check the Net Script so you can read along for the practice.

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