UMARS General Meeting
October 16, 1996
Meeting was called to order at 7:10pm
Attendance: Arne Grimstrup ARN, Michael Markmann MJM, Paula Ehn MHZ, Gord Snarr GLS, Denis Bosc UK and Aline Cotel
President's Report - Received a letter from Manitoba ARES inviting UMARS to participate in a consortium of amateur radio groups that would coordinate any communication support for the PanAm Games. - Initial meeting scheduled for October 27th at Winnipeg Senior's Radio Club. - UMARS repeater was requested for use as backup talk-in frequency for the WARC Fall Flea Market.
Vice-President's Report - New Pres. and Treas. must be present to change over account signing authority. - Radio Course is being held by Dr. Kinsner. An executive member is needed to attend to collect fees. Class meets Mondays at 4:00pm.
Treasurer's Report - Account balance is at $1076.64 - Outstanding telephone bill is approx. $350 and needs to be dealt with. We can do installment payments or lump sum.
Technical Manager's Report - The 286 PC has a dead power supply. It appears to be non-standard, but there is no rush to replace it. - We have a 386 Motherboard with disk controller that was donated, but has no memory.
Old Business - Repeater - Feedline needs to be replace (Discussion Tabled) - Objective: To order new cable early in the new year and get it installed by the May long weekend.
- Roof Work - Satellite Dish to be put up on Oct. 26th - 30m dipole needs to be put up as well
- Balloon Project (No Report)
- HDRP - No progress, but PacComm now selling 56Kbps TNCs commercially
- Membership - 27 members plus 8 from the radio course - next year mail membership forms in August for renewal - recruitment: any U-TV commercial ideas?
- J-Pole Seminar (Unknown)
- Engineering Class Homecoming attended by Arne, Cory and Tom
New Business (None)
Adjourned at 7:50pm
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