Highlights of October Club Meeting

NSARC Meeting - Oct.2, 2008
Present: VE5AAP Art Pederson (chair), VE5JOP Joe Pope, VE5PJP Walter Pope, VE5HAE Harry Enequist, VE5BCS Harold Slack, VE5ZC Blaine Witherow, and VE5HDP Helen Pope(upstairs).
Meeting was held at the home of VE5JOP/VE5HDP at 7pm.

Net Report (JOP 2 meters) - check-ins for each month on 2 meters: June - 91, July - 97, August - 112, Sept. - 127.

VE5EEE Access - PA Exhibition center. - ZC now has a key that opens the hallway so we can get to our room. AAP will make copies of that key for some of us this week. He still plans to talk to Jim Wilm.
VE5QU Randy Canning - Farewell supper Sept.5, Friday night at 6:30 at Country Kitchen was well attended. AAP was in attendance.

Health - wife of VE5PX (Dave) was visited by AAP and his wife. FMS was also seen by PJP and seemed to be doing fine.

Elections to be held at November meeting.
Dues are also due.

Ham Relations - We had cross-participation a few times recently with the other Ham groups in the area, and hopefully this will even increase.

Tech Report - BBI site - Tower still on hold on the property of PJP. He hopes to have the antenna for radio station soon, and must have tower fully up by Nov.5th, as stipulated in his tower permit. BBI repeater is still not repaired. - RPA - the previously mentioned repair was a corroded battery wire.- PA - has noise problems on the repeater was not evident in the last two days. PJP thinks it could be caused by a packet beacon, or someone generating noise. The interference is on the VHF of the PA repeater.

Historical Stuff - VE5YN John Schmidt, has photo album of historical stuff pertaining to our club that he wants to give us. We decided we would store it at EEE when we receive it. He also has an old radio to donate (we think still functional).