Amateur Radio

August Meeting 8-27-12

# of Members Present- 5

# of Visitors Present- 1

Total # Present- 6

-REMINDER! Meetings and nets are now on Mondays, and meetings are now located at the EOC (Circleville Fire Department) *Except the September meeting, which will be at Berger Hospital!*

-Upcoming Events Calendar!

     *Monday, September 3rd- Net 8pm- Net Control is Elijah (KD8NSA)

     *Monday, September 10th- Net 8pm- Net Control is Scott (KC8ITN)

     *Monday, September 17th- Net 8pm- Net Control is Nicholas (KD8QLS)

     *Monday, September 24th- 7:30pm In-Person Meeting at Berger Hospital!

-Winter Project

     *Build our own go-cart to store our radios on at the EOC. More info soon to come!

-Scott gave a presentation. He made a mono/multi band dipole antenna. Diagrams are avaliable from Ben and Scott!

-Dave Conrad, the EMA director visited! He also had some announcements to share.

     *Upcoming and long term financial info and event planning was discussed.

     *Nixle Alerts

          -If you go to the Sheriff's website, click on Nixle alerts and sign up, you will recieve emergencies alerts, weather alerts traffic info etc. specific to Pickaway County.

     *Weather Radios for Sale

          -If you go to Dave Conrad's website, weather radios are for sale for $35, $5 of which goes directly to help the Pickaway County EMA.

     * Finally, a special thanks to Dave for PCOARES' new radio!!!! THANKS DAVE!!! 

Hi everyone! The following info was sent out by Ben a couple days ago via email. In case you did not recieve it-here is the info.

1.) Nets and the next in-person meeting are on Mondays! (In-person meeting= Monday, July 23rd @ 7:30pm @ EOC)

2.) GOBA has graciously donated $200 to our fund for use of repeater, great work to our volunteers!

3.) At the next in-person meeting (July 23rd @ EOC), we will be discussing upcoming events, projects with our served agencies and a repeater update.

4.) Don't forget your badges at the next meeting!