Minutes of the Summer Meeting
July 18, 1999
Delmont Volunteer Fire Department
Delmont, PA
The summer meeting of WPRC was held at the Delmont VFD on July 18, 1999.
Denny (N3EJY) asked permission to record the proceedings of
the meeting for
the purpose of transcription of the minutes. The recording of
the
proceedings will then be destroyed after the minutes are transcribed.
Permission was granted by consensus of the voting members present.
N3EJY called the meeting to order at 1335 hours.
1) N3EJY requested introduction of those members present.
Board of Directors members present: N3EJY, N3GPM, KR3P, N3QCR, and KC3ET.
Regular Members present: N3MRU, N3MBR, N3LIF, N3WMV, N3XAR,
W3CYO, N3FLR,
N3BPB.
Guests present: N3DOL
2) On motion by W3CYO/N3MRU the following applications for
membership
to WPRC were approved:
WA3RSP James Ferguson, representing the 53.290 repeater.
K3MD John Thompson, representing the 146.865 repeater.
K3SMT Sherm Gary, representing the 147.195 repeater.
N3KZ Jeff DePolo, representing the 443.700 repeater.
KA3IRT Bill Almasy, representing the 444.150, 442.450, 442.775,
145.450 Mhz
repeaters
3) The minutes of the Spring Meeting (April 17, 1999) were
approved on
motion by N3BPB/N3LIF.
4) The treasurer's report, showing a balance of $3131.28, was
approved
on motion by W3CYO/N3WMV.
COORDINATORS REPORT
5) Joe (KR3P) indicated that since the last meeting there
have been 25
items acted upon: 1 Final Coordination, 4 Initial Coordinations,
1 Proposed
Coordination, 14 Recoordinations (0 WPA/14 Other), 5 on hold.
1999 YTD: 66 Coordinations issued: 12 Final Coordinations, 7 Initial
Coordinations, 6 Proposed, 41 Recoordinations (10 WPA/31 Other).
There are
35 Outstanding Items: 30 Awaiting On The Air Notices, 5 On Hold.
All items
received have been acted upon.
6) NFCC. KR3P reported on the current process of election
of 2 board
members for the NFCC. In answer to a question from N3FLR, it
was stated that
WPRC has 3 votes based on population of the area.
7) N3BPB/W3CYO moved that the WPRC board of directors convene
a meeting
to determine how the 3 votes should be cast for the open positions
on the
NFCC board. The motion carried.
8) KR3P and the WPRC board of directors requested any comments
or
information from the membership concerning choice of directors
for NFCC.
NEW BUSINESS
9) N3EJY presented a concern from N3LLR concerning NWS EAS
alerts
activating a special tone, tail message or weather announcement
on various
repeaters. After considerable discussion, it was determined by
consensus of
the members present that an article be written for the next newsletter
and
the information also posted on the web page encouraging membership
to write
to ARRL leadership in support of change in this portion of Part
97.
10) N3BPB brought up the issue of scheduling WPRC board meetings
at
hamfests. It was determined that this issue will be discussed
at the next
board of directors' meeting and the request will be given consideration.
11) N3EJY reported that the propagation software is in and
that KR3P is
diligently working at learning to use it. N3PBP/W3CYO moved that
the bill
in the amount of $2,535. for the software be paid out of WPRC
funds. The
motion carried. KR3P shared propagation studies on several repeaters
and
discussion of the software continued.
12) KR3P encouraged all repeater owners to make sure they report
any
changes (CALL SIGN, TRUSTEE, ADDRESS, ETC) to WPRC so that our
database can
be kept up to date.
13) The next meeting will be October 17 at the Emergency Operations
Center
in Brookville. This is the annual meeting and election of officers
will take
place.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned
at 1442 on motion
by N3BPB/N3MBR.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary A. Housholder, N3QCR
Secretary
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Please note that these minutes are subject to review and change
by W.P.R.C.
members at the next W.P.R.C. meeting.