The Executive Committee of the CRES Amateur Radio Club met on
Tuesday, 01 June 2004.  The meeting was held at the Kristinos
Pizza, 220 Granville St, Gahanna, and was attended by President
Jack Kirkpatrick/KC8TM, Immediate Past President David Jeffords/
K8ON, Vice President Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH, Secretary/Treasurer
Rob Stampfli/KD8WK, Contest Coordinator Jerry Scott/K9RV, VE
Liaison Art Grandle/KD8ZG, Station Trustee Mike Rauh/NV7X, and
members Bill Erwin/N9CX and Bob Cartwright/W8FMN.  The meeting
was called to order by KC8TM at 6:40 PM.

First order of business was to receive a report from the Field Day
subcommittee.  W8FMN: Things are coming together.  N9CX to handle
antennas, NV7X to do publicity and visitors.  KC8HIH will take
care of food.  Carl Yaffey/K8NU and Dave Woolf/K8RSP will provide
rigs.  Dwayne Trego/N8KDY will furnish the generator.  Still
looking for a laptop for logging, and maybe an antenna tuner, but
logging programs are tested and working.  The tubs of equipment
and tables will have to be gotten and hauled to the site prior to
Field Day.  They can be stored in Mike's garage.  Motion for club
to spend up to $125 for food and gasoline for Field Day passes.

Repeater Committee:  NV7X:  Committee met in April.  Mt. Carmel's
use of building after 12/04 still in flux.  Committee looking at
alternative sites.  We might be able to move repeater out back to
Lucent's part of plant, but mounting antenna on roof and security
of hardware are problems.  An inquiry to Ohio Area Repeater
Council (frequency coordinator) about possible sites has not
yielded anything useful.  Committee also discussed approaching
Pickerington schools about relocating to the new high school, but
if this is even possible, it would likely mean our agreeing to
host a student ham club there and we'd need to have a long term
commitment from members to do so.

KD8ZG offers his garage (with the blessings of his XYL), but site
is not heated and has no tower.  It is on a ridge, but it would
also situate the repeater further east of Columbus.

Discussion of repeater costs in general:  KD8WK's major concern
in our current situation has been that we would eventually have
to take over paying for a phone line, but relocating could result
in other small and/or large recurring fees for things like power
and cooling, depending on the situation -- commercial tower fees,
said to be in range of $300/mo, would be untenable.  It was
generally agreed that resolving the issues surrounding the the
repeater would become the club's first priority after Field Day.

Growth Committee:  KC8HIH:  The committee met and felt the club
had a reasonable number of activities.  However, membership is
aging and we need to recruit new members.  Universal doesn't list
us as a local ham club, likely because we were not open to all
amateurs until recently.  Suggestion:  Use official (Gordy's) web
site more to disseminate club news.  Advertize Sunday net more.
Hold more effective meetings.  This is a trying time for the club.
KD8ZG:  Produce a handout highlighting club for distribution at
VE sessions and at Universal.  Tricia agrees to compose such a
handout.

No report was presented from the Outreach committee.

Volunteer Examiner Team:  KD8ZG:  Nothing heard from Aladdin
people yet on August VE session at their hamfest (on August 7th),
but if it is typical, they'll contact him around July.  He'll try
to contact them proactively and have an answer by June 9th.

KD8WK:  We are now an ARRL affiliated club, and have had one
inquiry to date from someone interested in joining a local ham
club.  (He was directed to our June 9th meeting and Field Day.)
On the issue of insurance for the club, aside from the initial
inquiry, nothing further has been done, per club's last directive.

A discussion of relative merits of insurance versus cost ensues.
A policy would cost $300-$400/yr as a minimum [Ed: I just
looked it up in my notes, it was "$327 minimum and most clubs
pay the minimum" from my conversation with the insurance agent
earlier.] for $1-2M coverage.  Motion:  K9RV/KD8ZG:  Table ARRL
insurance.  KD8WK:  Agrees for now, but repeater relocation may
tilt the balance in favor of obtaining insurance.  N9CX:  The
club has conflicting agendas:  Reaching out to new members vs.
dealing with the liability issues of doing so, which we need to
resolve.  Motion carries.

K9RV:  Regarding the 22 Mar 04 minutes, was there a formal motion
(and did it carry) to have monthly meetings at the March general
meeting?  It is not in the minutes.  No one was sure any more,
but the consensus of those present was to re-query the membership
on this issue at the June 9th meeting.  KD8WK observed that the
minutes were updated to reflect a vote to renew our ARRL
affiliation, something not in his initial minutes, but this issue
had not been raised previously.  In any event, it is the stated
intent of the VP (KC8HIH) to endeavor to have a club event of
some kind on a monthly basis.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 PM.

No Treasurer's report was requested or given, but for the record,
the club currently has $87.17 in the cash account, $4467.25 in
our Checking/Savings account, and $2153.25 in CDs.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli/KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary/Treasurer