Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club Business Meeting October 17, 2024

Business Meeting  October 17, 2024  

Don Dewar KD9NJR President called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

 Attendees: 

Robert Kocourek W9RKK

Charlene Treve K9CMZ

Don Dewar KD9NJR

Daryl Jenks KB9RHR

Paul Burkett KD9FMN

Jim Neumann W9JWN

Tom O’Boyle N9GUN

Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK

Chuck Gold KC9VO

Danny Kafka KD9HIL

Joe Barela KB9RCR

Howard Mitchell KD9WSV

Steve Epstein WA9FZB

John Schofield AC9JS

Terry Jarnholm AE9TJ

John Thornton KD9VZJ

Jeff Gembala N9QF

Alex Suptela W2DNA

Cliff Sowka K9QD

John Douglas KD9KSH

Danny Meyers K9LDM

Guy Stanek KE9AIA

Bill Reiss KW9WR

Leo Ribordy N9NBH

Chris Brewer AC9GN

Rick Dickens KY0Q

Bob Benwitz N9JAX

Mariusz Szpryngacz AD9DU

Bill McGovern W9WEM

Bob McIntyre W9DXR

 ZOOM Virtual Attendees: 

Steve Karson AC9EM

Roberto Beltramelli WA9E

Kirk Musselman K9MSG

Scott DeSantis KB9VRW

Jim Campbell KB9RGU

Kevin Willard KB9QVX

 Secretary’s Report: 

Cliff Sowka K9QD: September Meeting Minutes as published in the RHG:  

·         Bill Reiss KW9WR moved to approve and Danny Kafka KD9HIL seconded.  Motion adopted. 

 Treasurer’s Report 

Chris Brewer AC9GN:  SCHAUMBURG AMATEUR RADIO CLUB MONTHLY REPORT

Month:        September 2024 Report generated on 9/3/2024 

Checkbook Balance

08/31/24

 

 

$7,690.50

INCOME

 

 

MEMO

$235.00

5 Zelle deposits

09/xx/24

$135.00

Dues (summarized)

 

3 Teller deposits

09/xx/24

$100.00

Dues (summarized)

 

DISBURSEMENTS

 

 

MEMO

$649.79

Check #1373

09/04/24

$125.00

Field Day tent repl.

 

Check #1375

09/05/24

$221.48

Club picnic cabin fees

 

Check #1376

09/06/24

$191.00

Field day food

 

ACH

09/09/24

$62.82

AT&T DSL

 

Check #1374

 

$49.49

New popup canopy

 

 

09/30/24

 

Account Balance

 $7,275.71

 

09/30/24

 

Bank Statement

$7,275.71

Petty Cash

 

 

 

 

Original balance

08/31/24

$19.00

 

 

Cash (two dues)

09/28/24

$50.00

 

 

New balance

09/30/24

 

MEMO

$69.00

PENDING CHECKS

 

 

MEMO

$38.68

Check #1377                 09/28/24        $38.68 Hamfest CPM vise/coffee cups 

Funds Available               $7,306.03

 

·         99 members on roster with more entries posting momentarily

Daryl Jenks KB9RHR moved to approve and Alex Suptela W2DNA seconded.  Motion adopted. 

Construction Project (CP) 

Cliff Sowka K9QD:  We’ve been taking a survey of potential projects and find four (4) members are interested in building Octopus HF Antenna but not achieving enough critical mass at the moment to justify the project yet.  Joe Barela KB9RCR has been working on a Bill of Material and finds some hardware items require lot-purchase of 100-pieces in order to obtain such desirable items as stainless steel fittings but we don’t have enough build-interest to justify the effort at the moment. 

The club continues to organize the substantial SK donation and the initial sorting/cataloging of equipment in underway and stored in the locked cabinets.  

Inventory/model/value of the ~200 items requires much effort so we’re going to be consuming time to achieve the final listing during our next few meetings. 

The Board of Directors agreed with Dennis C. Calvey’s KD9HIK plan for new student equipment donations from the cache and our Education Team will be in charge of dispensing (HTs, etc.) at the conclusion of Q1 class.  The goal is to offer the remaining equipment to our members via an internal auction with suggested minimum bids probably to begin around 50% of recent eBay closed auctions. 

Paul Bocci K9NO will be hosting a special station set-up during the October 26th CP meeting and will be in the northern part of the basement to help avoid the ambient noise we generate over at the southern end.  He will also have easy access to our roof-top long-wire’s basement termination at the lightning suppressor header on the I-Beam above his station’s table. 

Reminds me:  we need to purchase a few more tables and chairs for CP meetings now that we’re consistently hosting >25 folks at these gatherings. 

VE Testing 

John Shofield AC9JC FCC Volunteer Examiner (VE) Session Chair reports: 

VE Tests Results for October 5, 2024 

Name

Call Sign

Class

Kas

KE9BNE

Technician

Jeff

KE9BJB

General

Philip

KE9BNA

Technician

 

Class

 

Technician

2

General

1

Extra

0

Total

3

 Participating Volunteer Examiners (VEs) 

Bill

Davies

K9WKD

Ed

Lishka

AC9SD

James

Migalla

KC9UFB

John

Schofield

AC9JS

Joe

Barela

KB9RCR

Mariusz

Szpryngacz

AD9DU

Kevin

Willard

KB9QVX

Bill

Riess

KW9WR

 We had a good combination of experienced VEs and soon-to-be experienced VEs. 

Next examination date: November 2, 2024 

John Schofield

Session Manager

AC9JS 

Repeaters 

Rob Glowacki N9MVO (not present) has been granted a $2,000 initial budget to hire professional antenna diagnostics for the 2M machine on Barrington Road.  We have enough funds available to tackle the initial effort and even able to procure a new StationMaster antenna for water tank mounting if needed. 

It would be good if we could produce a short video of the 2M Machine installation for display on our website.  Maybe we can record and narrate something when the antenna diagnostics is being performed. 

No update on diagnostic effort at the moment and we’re hopeful work can begin before inclement weather is upon us. 

Education: 

Leo Ribordy N9NBH reports we will provide a Technician Class for a 10-week run starting January 11, 2025 at the Hoffman Library facility on Hassle road.  Leo will be publishing an Instructor sign-up sheet to garner enough of our teaching members to help educate the expected Ham Radio candidates. 

Public Service 

Rob Glowacki N9MVO not present. 

Publicity 

Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK informed the following: 

The Schaumburg Amateur Radio Club will be doing a short (about 10 minutes) presentation about Amateur Radio during the Village of Schaumburg Emergency Preparedness Workshop on Wednesday November 13, 2024.  

The event will be held at the Al Larson Prairie Arts Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Ct. Schaumburg IL.  (Adjacent to Village Offices), from 6:00 – 8:00 PM). 

Anyone can register to attend at their website: 

https://www.villageofschaumburg.com/government/fire/emergency-preparedness

 If you plan on attending, please drop me a note at ‘KD9HIK@gmail.com‘.  Please do not reply ‘ALL”.  Also, if you attend and have a HAM radio hat or SARC Membership Badge, please consider wearing it. 

73 Dennis C. Calvey 

Fox Hunt 

Jim Campbell KB9RGU announced our final hunt for this year will be Saturday October 26th.  More details at the date approaches. 

Social 

John Douglas KD9KSH reminded our January Holiday Party is set for Friday January 17th at Pollyanna Brewery in Roselle.  SARC will be funding our food offering and refreshments will be cash bar.  We announce our Member of the Year [as voted during the November Election] and the winner of Net Login for 2024 at this annual party. 

Special Events 

Rick Dickens KY0Q reminds: 

Illinois QSO Party October 19th and 20th 12Noon ~ 8PM.  This event is published on Contest Calendars for more details. 

Adjourn 7:54

 Presentation:  Planned DX Engineering ZOOM call was missing tonight.

 Submitted October 18, 2024 

Cliff Sowka  K9QD

Secretary