Minutes Summary for 04/20/2010

Meeting was called to order by W9GOC.

Treasurer’s Report - $5254, 62 members, 3 paid through 2011.

Guests - Scott K9JY, Felix - who is interested in becoming a ham.

Awards - Frederick W9GOC was appointed assistant sectional manager. KZ9RBZ just upgraded to Extra.

VE Report - April VE Session - 3 tech, 1 general, 1 extra. MARA Hamfest - 5 tech, 1 extra. General Class is May 8th and 9th.

Foxhunt - 3rd Saturday of every month starting at 2:00 pm. The location is within 8 miles from Garner Park. The last few months have had no participants, so they will discontinue if there is no interest in the future.

Repeater news - The Cambridge repeater 147.36 is currently active.

New business - Robert Huntington, rwhuntin@wisc.edu, is looking for advice on setting up an antenna. Feel free to send him an email if you can provide any help.

Field Day - Field Day will be at Badger Prairie Park again this year, and will start Saturday June 26th at noon, and end Sunday June 27th at noon.

Buck Night - N9TWA, KB9UAJ, KC9OHU (winner)

This night’s presentation was on monitoring Dane County, exploring VHF and UHF outside of the ham bands.