The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its fourth quarter general meeting
for the 2005 calendar year at the Donatos Pizzeria, 6965 East Broad St,
Reynoldsburg, OH, on December 14, 2005.  Those in attendance were:
President Tricia Kovacs/KC8HIH, Vice President David Jeffords/K8ON,
Sec/Treas Rob Stampfli/KD8WK, Contest Coordinator Carl Yaffey/K8NU,
VE Coordinator Art Grandle/KD8ZG, Trustee Mike Rauh/W8GT and members
N9CX, K8KJ, WA8LBZ, K8AX, W3CRZ, K8RSP, WD8EBS.

As a lead-in to the event, the club held a foxhunt with the fox
located at the restaurant.  The foxhunt was partially DF-based,
and partially based on clues given over the air by the fox.  Jim
Kerr/K8KJ played the part of the fox.  Art Grandle/KD8ZG was the
first to find him, with Al Mecozzi/WA8LBZ in hot pursuit.  As in
previous foxhunts, the club picked up the dinner tab for the fox
and the first person to find him.

Tricia called the meeting to order at 7:25 PM.  She gave recognition
to the following folks:

+ Dave Woolf and Art Grandle for maintaining the repeater and
  fostering good relations with Mt. Carmel
+ Carl Yaffey for his work as the club Contest Coordinator and
  National Coordinator for the CQ-WE contest
+ Bob Kenyon and Dave Woolf for their good showings in the CQ-WE contest
+ Gordon Lashley and Rob Stampfli for maintaining web sites for the club
+ Dave Jeffords for putting together this year's club activities
+ Bob Cartwright and Mike Rauh for their Field Day efforts
+ Al Mecozzi for his Field Day photo presentation
+ Bill Erwin for promoting projects, like WB8WGA's TNC, within the club
+ Jim Kerr for being the wily fox at tonight's meeting

Tricia next proposed merging the Growth and Outreach committees.
There was general agreement to do so, and some discussion of how
to be effective at the tasks.  Tricia will contact Dan Merrick/K8TX,
head of the Growth committee, to determine if he wants to continue
as head of the combined committee.  

Tricia next presented the Nomination Committee's proposed slate
of officers for next year:

	President:	Bill Erwin/N9CX
	Vice President:	Dave Brown/K8AX
	Sec/Treas:	Rob Stampfli/KD8WK
	Equipment Mgr:	Stu Steenburgh/KB8DEO

Tricia and David agreed to assist the next VP by each
undertaking to plan one activity for an upcoming club meeting.
No additional nominations were made from the floor.  Mike
Stansbery/WD8EBS motions to close the nominations.  Art
Grandle/ KD8ZG motions, and David Jeffords/K8ON seconds,
that the proposed slate be accepted by acclamation.  The
motion passed.

Art Grandle gave a report for the repeater committee:  The
repeater has been doing OK since it self-healed itself after
a hiccup several months ago.  He has therefore not yet tested
the new procedure for gaining access to the machine.  We
continue to get occasional complaints from hams trying to
access the KB8SXJ repeater on 146.655Mhz, located next door to
us in Gahanna.  Rob Stampfli indicated he had made Trigg Tabor
aware of these complaints at this year's annual OARC meeting,
and questioned him about why the OARC coordinated the two
repeaters on adjacent channels when they were so closely
spaced physically.  He was told by Trigg that as long as the
CRES-ARC repeater was not being interfered with, it was not
our concern.

Carl Yaffey gave a report on last month's CQ-WE contest:  The
CB location is substantially leading the pack, with two of our
members well-positioned to likely take high score in their
respective categories.  An ad for the contest in QST apparently
brought in several new contestants.  Next year, Carl plans to
propose allowing all former location codes to be used in the
contest.  He indicated he might not require logs to be
submitted since he doesn't check them anyway, but only require
contestants to send the cover sheet with their score to him.
Carl also indicated he was considering doing away with the host
locations and paper certificates, but the consensus view at
the meeting was that as long as there were volunteers for
this task that this aspect of the contest should be retained.
Carl also put in a plug for club members to consider joining
and supporting the work of the local ARES.

Art Grandle reported for the VE team.  On December 3rd, we
gave a VE exam.  We had 9 examiners present and 3 examinees,
but everyone passed their respective exams.  Next year, we
plan to give exams in April, August (probably at the local
Ham-OH-Rama hamfest), and December.

Tricia proposed that the club provide support for staffing
the phones for one slot of the local WOSU pledge drive.  She
thought perhaps in return WOSU could give us a tour of their
facilities.  Art suggested a tour of the Columbus Emergency
Response Facility.  Al suggested checking to see if the new
Holocaust part of the Motts Military Museum had opened and,
if so, scheduling another tour there.

Tricia requested volunteers for an audit committee to audit
the Treasurer's records, which were last audited three years
ago.  She, Dave Brown, and Bob Cartwright/W3CRZ volunteered.
They will get with Rob after the first of the year to set
up a time for the audit.

Rob gave a Treasurer's report:  The club's Telhio account
has $2466.10 in the savings account, $4354.03 in CDs, and
the cash account contains $114.72 ($192.14 after the dues
and expenses collected tonight -- Rob).

As often happens at these meetings, discussion then turned
to the declining interest in ham radio by the population
at large, the increasing age of the average ham, and what
the club could do to counteract these concerns.  After
much discussion, it was decided to assign to the outreach/
growth committee the task of coming up with a suitable
action proposal for the club to review.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli
CRES-ARC Secretary