President’s Report
Spring weather season is upon us. Can anyone say Severe Weather Season? I’m always excited for this season. Heck, my call has WX in it! We are hosting the National Weather Service this month at our regular meeting date and time. This is our annual spotter training session and it will be open to the public. The American Legion in Bartonville has been nice enough to have the bar and grill open for you to patronize.
CQ POTA, CQ POTA, CQ PARKS ON THE AIR! The weather is turning nice enough to be out in the open air. I’ve already activated 3 different parks this year. I’m hoping to do many more. If anyone wants to set up a meeting date and time to go do POTA, contact me! N9WX.ARES@gmail.com
Daylight savings time starts March 12th! I know I can’t for it to be light out later. Bonfire season… If anyone wants to set something up for an evening out at Jubilee College State Park at their outdoor fireplace, get in touch! N9WX.ARES@gmail.com
As a reminder, the April Club Meeting will be at the RED CROSS building in downtown Peoria.
Justin Flick – N9WX
PAARC – President
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Meeting Minutes:
Board of Directors
Attending via Zoom: Rob, Justin, Darren, Tom, John, Deb and Adam
7:04 p.m., we start the meeting!
Justin says thanks to those who came out to Winter Field Day in
Morton… it was a great turnout and a lot of fun.
Bandbits: Deb makes a motion to accept, Tom seconds… All are in
favor and it is accepted.
Treasurer’s Report from John:
Did not have time to prepare a report, but will have it for the
general meeting next week. Justin does provide the following:
- Savings: $544.81
- Checking: $4,532.10 (what recently came out: $100 check for Knights
of Columbus Hall, $212 for PO BOX, $78.94 for Winter Field Day pizza) - Money market: $10,914.10
- PayPal: $594.03
Repeater committee:
- Will have to go back out to the repeater site to move things around
after we weren’t able to meet Bill out there… - Still no invoice, so waiting on that before paying.
Superfest committee:
- Deb finally got a copy of the bill from last year and it’s $50 less
than expected (hooray!) We owe them $2,329 out of $3,229 total on the
bill. - $3,405.81 total profit from Superfest (although less than that for
PayPal fees for tickets purchased) - Met with Three Sisters Park yesterday and had a good meeting. We’ve
been talking about table arrangements for next year. We will have to
rent some tables, since they only have 30 of the 3×8 tables. Deb will
call a rental place in Pekin (A to Z) that has a good deal. - Talked to Chris Levine at the State’s Attorney’s office today and
they’re checking to see if we can cancel the existing raffle license
so we can get a new one issued. - We don’t have to rent a dumpster, but will have to pick up our own
garbage and set up our own tables/take them back down. - Nick Kline is who Three Sisters works with for porta potties… will
call for a quote. We’re needing four of them. - Any alcohol seen on premise that hasn’t been purchased from Three
Sisters will be confiscated - Dwight is printing a few things (flyers, vendor letter, ticket
certificate) that Deb will bring to the meeting next week - Rob brings up that they’re closing the bridge in Lacon during
Superfest… people will need to use the Henry bridge, so maybe we
should add a note to our website to warn folks? - What will we have on the front sign? “Welcome hams!”
- Deb plans to turn on ticket sales in March
- John will get traffic cones for Superfest, but we need to figure out
how many we need.
Old business:
- Dwight will print membership cards and bring them to the next meeting
- Rich and Tom went to the Red Cross last week to work on WinLink with
our TS-2000 rig; we do have a potential offer to sell it for $1,000.
Our Yaesu FT-991 is working just fine. Tom still has our Icom 7300 at
home after Winter Field Day, but will return. - There’s a chance we’ll have to start paying for American Legion
space, so we need to make sure that the Red Cross option is viable and
good to go. - Deb would like the March Superfest meeting at the Red Cross as well.
- Still nothing new on the trademark front or 501(c)3 effort yet
New business:
- John suggests getting an embossed seal for our Superfest ticket
certificates… but not sure we need it since we’ll be signing each
one in pen. But maybe we want it for other club use? - Adam has made some improvements to site speed on w9uvi.org
- Adam has also set up email following for w9uvi.org… will announce
for membership at next meeting
8:04 p.m. Tom moves to adjourn, Deb seconds… we’re done!
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Membership Meeting – No membership meeting in February.
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Peoria County ARES
Mar 1, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CDT on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
Mar 8, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CDT on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
Mar 15, ARES On-line Conference @ 7:00 PM CST (Watch your email for Zoom conference info)
Call or email Rich if you are not on the ARES Roster and desire to join the Zoom Conference.
On-Line Conference Agenda includes: Infrastructure Activities, Training Documentation, Storm Spotter Training, Simplex Exercises, Winlink, Volunteer Opportunities, and more.
Expect to spend most of the meeting time detailing about Volunteer Opportunities. If you are interested in working on ARES radios and computers, please join us.
Please submit your Training Documentation form.
ARES website: http://www.peoriacountyares.org/
Rich Holtman, KD9ANU, Emergency Coordinator for Peoria County ARES
email: kd9anu@arrl.net
Winlink: kd9anu@winlink.org
Cell: 309-256-4272
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February Net Logs
2/5
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2/12
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2/19
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2/26
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March Club Events
March 1 – 7:00 pm – ARES Net on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
March 2 – Board of Directors via Zoom
March 8 – 7:00 pm – ARES Net on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
March 9 – 7:00 pm – Weather Spotter Training by the National Weather Service. Bartonville American Legion
March 15 – ARES Meeting: via Zoom. Zoom credentials will be emailed to ARES participants.
March 23 – Superfest meeting