May Meeting Agenda

Taos ARC Meeting on the Air

May Meeting on the Air Minutes, May,13 2020

The meeting was called to order on the Picuris Repeater at 6:00 PM by President Mike Kittredge.

Mike checked in 17 operators in the roll call.

Suspended the reading of the minutes from 4/8/2020 meeting.

President’s Report:

Government restrictions are continued, with information the governor requiring masks in public and max 5 people meeting. We probably have to test 2 at a time, with 3 VE’s, likely outdoors.

The club intends to do the testing May 30 for 2, 1 off’s and June 13, ARRL. Tim stated the ARRL material is on the way.

Club noted the Comet CHA-205B antenna working Slovenia just before the meeting. Thanks for sharing Brian. Two club members have this all band HF antenna.

Treasures Report: (Gen) We have $2,539.09 in the bank.

Led to a discussion on PayPal wanting a physical address. John W. suggested using the physical address of the Post Office were the PO Box is located. Mike might have to call PayPal.

New Business:

Repeaters - Brian W. update: The 76 repeater is tuned up and ready to go back up San Antonio Mountain.

Restoring the microwave link to Picuris later this year.

Plan to get up Picuris in a few weeks and add an antenna to tie to Colorado for the “Colorado Connection”.

Waiting on DSTAR and internet, and later XXXX.

ARRL Field Day discussion. We should have a field day. Suggestions were Kit Carson Park, out in the forest, Glen’s picnic area. Some post meeting discussion on outdoor event purpose and the dates of Field Day are 6/27-28.

Shelia has a new/used mobile antenna (thank you Stephen), needs assistance to set it up on her house. Brian W. pointed out it will require a ground plain.

Call to adjourn by Mike.

Motion to adjourn by Brian W., 2nd by Greg M. , unanimous.

Adjourned at 6:34.

Post meeting Philip A. got his Echo Link working, listened in to the meeting

TARC Minutes - March 11, 2020

TAOS AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

Meeting Minutes: March 11, 2020

The meeting was called to order at 6:07 PM by President Mike Kittredge, at the Taos County EOC, after a great pot luck.


Attendees: Mike Kittredge, Gary Ferguson, Craig Grillio, Glen Romero, Shelia Shortell, Greg Medina, Dan Pritchard, Brian Williams, Tim Henson

Voted to accept the February 12, 2020 minutes with revision to name corrections.


President’s report:

ARRL testing occurred March 7 with five licenses earned, 2 Tech, 2 General, and 1 Extra.

The next test is June 13, 2020 right before the Extra questions change.

Mike led the discussion on the need to have ARRL books to lend to members for license study. The suggestion was to buy 4 books for each license type, each time the questions changed, that way we will have the books for their 4 year life. Also suggested we should start with the new extra questions when they rollout 7/1/2020. Then is subsequent years Tech and General purchases of 4 books each. General agreement, but we did not vote on the discussion.

501c3 Status is we will use the postcard form to file our taxes for the 9 questions on the form and will become an IRS recognized non-profit. Thanks to Tom T for the research on this topic.


Treasurer’s Report:

Glen Romero, we have $2,531.75 in the bank. We paid 2 government bills.


New Business:

Brian Williams gave us an update on future happenings on Picuris and San Antonio (SA) Mountains. Rocky Mountain Radio Club is putting up a D-Star repeater on SA mountain. Digital UHF. There is fiber to SA mountain. TARC would like to piggyback as much as possible.

Brian also indicated there is a broken microwave link from SA to Picuris to be fixed this summer.

Brian continued to discuss the plan to add a DMR repeater on Picuris linked to Colorado and New Mexico. Brian also stated the need for solar backup update on SA.

In general discussion noted repeaters with the call sign NM5ML in the repeater book are linked for the state megalink, when you transmit on “1” you transmit on perhaps “30” repeaters all over the state.

Mike reminded us that the TaosARC Net is on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM. Tune in to the Picuris repeater “Taos (Picuris Mountain)  147.120+, 67.0 “ and join in.


Craig Grillio made a motion to adjourn at 7:01 PM, 2nd by Shelia Shortell, unanimously approved.


The formal meeting ended and many members continued into a workshop for about 40 minutes with Chirp programming HT’s and Q&A.