The CRES Amateur Radio Club held a dinner meeting at Kristino's
Pizza, 220 Granville St, Gahanna, on Wednesday 11 June 2003.  The
meeting was called to order by President David Jeffords/K8ON at
7:15 PM.  Those in attendance were:  KD8WK, K9RV, K8ON, K8AX,
K8NU, K8RSP, K8KJ, N8ZOG, KC8TM, KB8DEO, NV7X, N9CX, WD8EBS,
WA8LBZ, W8FMN, and KC8HIH.

David recognized Mike Stansbery/WD8EBS for his recent upgrade
to Extra class, and Stu Steenburgh/KB8DEO for his recent upgrade
to General.

Rob Stampfli/KD8WK reported that the w8zpf.cmhnet.org domain,
where the club minutes are kept and our email exploder resides,
has been unreachable from the internet since Sunday.  Apparently,
an upstream ISP, coil.com, has failed.  Our provider is arranging
to change over to another upstream ISP and expects for the
transition to be complete by Friday, but until it is done, access
to the w8zpf.cmhnet.org web and email exploder will not be
possible.

Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH indicated she had been contacted by Hal
Smith who needs help with repairing the Central Ohio Radio
Reading Service radios for the blind.  This was a function the
club had performed in the past at Lucent.  Hal has been busy
in other aspects of CORRS and would appreciate help with getting
broken radios back in service.  He can be reached at 740 927 9219
or by email at hcs927@aol.com.

The bulk of the rest of the meeting concerned Field Day planning.
Refer to the 22 May Executive Committee meeting for previously
arranged details, which will not be reproduced here.

Field Day will be the last weekend in June:  June 28th and 29th.
It was announced that Lucent has declined to allow us the use of
their back acreage so we had to move the Field Day site to another
location.  Mike Rauh/NV7X will host this year's event at his home
near Winchester Pike and Ebright roads on the southeast side of the
Columbus metro area.  Mike's driveway is just east of the Grove's
Park entrance off Winchester Pike.  It is a graveled drive.  Park
in front of or next to the garage.  This will be a particularly
challenging setup, as we have not operated from the location
previously, and will undoubtedly have to improvise some aspects
of the setup on Saturday morning.  One station will be set up
in Mike's garage, and the other on the side porch.

Mike related that there will be a cookout at the Field Day site
for Field Day participants and their family.  The club will provide
meat items and soft drinks, and participants are asked to bring
table service and a snack or potluck side item.  The cookout will
be at 6 PM Saturday.

Those interested are invited to meet for breakfast at the Bob Evans,
Gender Rd and SR 33, on Saturday 28 June at 9 AM.  Setup will begin
at 10 AM at Mike's.

The issue of the power generator is still up in the air:  Several
people have offered us the use of their larger, louder, power-hungry
4-5KW generators, and a few have offered us the use of smaller
generators that may not be big enough for the task.  Al Mecozzi/
WA8LBZ, agreed to look into options for acquiring a suitable unit.

The following people have (either here or at the prior Executive
Committee meeting) offered equipment on loan for the cause:

	K8RSP			Kenwood TS-430S for the voice rig
	KD8ZG			Kenwood TS-520S for the CW rig
	K8ON			Backup rig
	WD8EBS			2 Meter rig and PSK station
	K8RSP, KC8TM, W8FMN	Computers for logging
	K8ON			Press release and result reporting
	KD8WK, K8ON		30 ft extensible pole for antennas
	KD8WK, K8RSP		Antenna tuners
	K8RSP			Digital pictures for our records

Jerry Scott/K9RV suggested that the local police be pre-notified
of our activities so that they are aware of what will be going on.
Other suggestions from those seasoned Field Day operators included:
Bring your own lawn chairs, fans, bug repellent and CW keyers and
keys.  

Several members related interesting stories fondly remembered from
former Field Day sessions.

Al asked a question about which CQ Magazine DX Zone we in central
Ohio were located in.  Jerry and Carl agreed we were in zone 4.

Mike gave a brief synopsis of the new PSK mode, PSK63, which he
thinks may eventually replace RTTY.

Dave Woolf announced that our next VE Exam session will be at
the Columbus Hamfest, Voice of Aladdin Shrine Temple, which we
think will be held the first Saturday in August, 2003.

Several additional small discussions ensued, including:

+ A mention of BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) and its potential
  to cause interference in the form of raised noise levels on
  the HF bands.

+ A discussion of the new apparent new Bush administration mandate
  to the FCC to revisit the issue of spectrum allocation and its
  potential impact on ham radio.

+ The soon-to-be release 60 meter ham band (or rather, the five
  2.8Khz channels that will be release for ham use on 3 July).

The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli
CRES-ARC Secretary/Treasurer