The Executive Committee of the CRES Amateur Radio Club met on
Monday, 16 August 2004.  The meeting was held at the Donatos
Pizza, Brice and Livingston, Reynoldsburg, and was attended by
President Jack Kirkpatrick/KC8TM, Immediate Past President David
Jeffords/K8ON, Vice President Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH, Secretary/
Treasurer Rob Stampfli/KD8WK, Station Trustee Mike Rauh/NV7X,
and Dave Woolf/K8RSP.  The meeting was called to order by Jack
at 6:40 PM.

The first order of business was to select a date for our August
activity, which will be a pseudo-fox-hunt conducted by Jim Kerr/
K8KJ:  Jim will give out a series of clues at regular intervals
on the repeater about his location which those participating
in the hunt will use to find him.  Once the fox has been found,
the location will be announced to all and everyone will meet
there for dinner.  The excomm chose the evening of Wed, 25 Aug,
for the event, and voted to pay for the dinners of Jim and the
first person to locate him (and their spouses, if present).

Next, the committee discussed a replacement for the position of
Contest Coordinator Jerry Scott/K9RV, who resigned due to an
impending move to Florida.  Jack announced that Carl Yaffey/
K8NU had expressed a willingness to serve in the position and
nominated him to fulfill the remainder of Jerry's term.  The
board approved the nomination and Jack will notify Carl, after
which we will announce it to the club.

Rob reported that he had attempted to contact Tom Quay/KT3TT
about whether our offer to be host club for the 2004 CQ-WE
contest had been accepted, but Tom's email address was always
full and kept rejected his mails.  Rob will try contacting Tom
by phone or paper mail.  Presuming we are the host club, K8RSP,
KC8HIH, and KD8WK offered to assist.  Rob suggested the club
consider dropping the requirement of donating a green stamp
in order to receive a certificate, for those filing
electronically.  Less than 100 people generally participate,
and the necessity for transferring this small payment removes
much of the advantage of electronic filing.  He suggested the
club either set up a PayPal account or just eat the cost of
the certificates in these cases.

The committee next discussed whether to have a club picnic.
It was noted that the picnic was a popular event, and the
consensus was that we have one.  The date of Wed, 22 Sep,
was selected.  As in the past, we'll try for a free shelter
at Blacklick.  The board allocated up to $100 for burgers,
soft drinks, and utensiles, and participants will be asked
to bring a covered dish, appetizer, or dessert.  Mike
indicated we should not buy as many buns as people are
serious about reducing carbohydrates in their diet and we
had a lot left over last year.  Rob agreed to take a head
count as the date gets closer so we can better evaluate
the quantities we need to purchase.

Rob suggested in view of the interest in putting together
a trip to Fair Radio that the club consider a trip on Sat,
9 Oct, to take advantage of the Northwest Ohio Hamfest in
addition to Fair Radio.  Tricia will check into this and
coordinate.

The committee discussed having Brad Spencer give a talk to
the club, originally proposed for September, at the November
meeting.  Brad had agreed to speak on antenna modeling programs,
but had indicted he would rather talk about APRS, and the
committee agreed APRS would be a more interesting topic as
talks on modeling programs have been given in the recent past.
Tricia will set up a date for the APRS talk with Brad.

Dave reported that the Repeater Committee met on Fri, 13 Aug.
Based on Andy Elliott/K8LE's email, Dave had contacted several
hams at Mt. Carmel to establish whether they might assist us
in interacting with Mt. Carmel about the repeater and got some
good leads.  He also reported we potentially might be able to
relocate the repeater to a site near Lithopolis, which has good
elevation for Columbus coverage, but that this would likely be
in an unheated facility.  He said Stu Steenburgh/KB8DEO believes
we may be allowed to remove the antennas and perhaps the repeater
tower if we have to vacate the 6200 building.  The repeater would
have to be partially disassembled to remove it from its current
location at Lucent, and in this event, Dave and Art Grandle/KD8ZG
would rewire the machine and document what they've done, which
is needed.  We likely will not know the fate of the 6200 building
until September at the earliest.  The repeater committee's
assessment:  (1) the preference is to leave the repeater at its
current location as long as it is feasible to do so.  (2) the
next most preferable alternative would be to relocate it in the
immediate vicinity, either at Lucent to another location on Mt.
Carmel's property (perhaps 6400 East Broad?), but away from the
actual hospital due to the interference potential (by and to
both us and them).  The least most desirable alternative is
relocating to repeater to a far-removed site.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 PM.

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