UMARS General Meeting
May 21, 1997

Paula Ehn acting secretary for this meeting.

Present: Arne Grimstrup VE4ARN, Paula Ehn VE4MHZ, Bret Wiebe VE4GLV, Gord Snarr VE4GLS, and Michael Markmann VE4MJM.

Meeting called to order at 19:38.

President's Address by Arne Grimstrup

- Thanks to all volunteers who helped during the Flood.
- CW Course starts tomorrow at 7:00pm in 524 University Centre. 7 people interested.
- UMSU has still not given us the promised funds. Will look into again.
- Thanks to Paula Ehn and Michael Markmann for taking the repeater in for repair so promptly.
Vice-preident's Report by Arne Grimstrup
-Remi Godin VE4GOD says hi.

Treasurer's Report

None.

Technical Report

None

Old Business:

Roof Work and Rig Maintenance

- Need 160m dipole feedline
- New junction box for roof is here but requires a support to be built for it.
- Feedline to HF beam needs to be fixed or replaced and beam needs to be retuned and maybe a balun should be included.
- All bolts on our tower need to be tightened soon!
- Repeater antenna needs to be fixed or replaced.
- Rotator cables for both HF and VHF beams need to be replaced.
- Conduits from roof to club room are full. A solution could involve using remote relay switches so only one feedline is to the roof for all HF antennas.
- Satilite dish still needs syrvos and needs to be assembled and pain ted for aertizing the club.
- Idea discussed about replacing VHF beam and UHF twinkie with single VHF/UFH vertical antenna and thereby also reducing feedlines to the roof.
- Next roof working day will be on the July 19/20 weekend.
- HF rig still needs to be tested and tuned up for maximum power output.
- Backup battery will cost about $50 for a 25 Ahr battery.
- Treasurer owes $61.30 to Paula Ehn for repeater repairs and new Blue Book.
- Arne is talking to Don McKinnon about a possible EMO matching grant for repeater upgrading.
- No UHF repeater report.
- No new QSL card designs.
- Field Day this year has been cancelled due to the flood.
- The VE4UMR Packet-internet gateway has had some problems lately and as a result the club web pages are down. Looking to recover them and find a temporary home for them until the gateway is fixed.
- Arne is looking into idea about segmenting our club LAN for club experiments such as HDRP.
- No progress in HDRP project.
- Ballon project is progressing. Last meeting we programmed the MIM and added the GPS unit. However, we had no success with tranfering of data from GPS unit to the transmitter.
- Log your hours for the Campus Crime Watch!
- Radio Course has given us 7 new hams!

New Business:

- Manitoba Marathon needs volunteers. The Marathon is June 15, 1997.
- The possibility of a "backup battery" message on the repeater was discussed again with no real progress.

Motion to adjourn by Micahel Markmann.

Meeting adjourned at 20:33.

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