The CRES Amateur Radio Club held a general membership meeting on
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, at the New Albany library. The following
members were in attendance: President Bill Erwin/N9CX, Vice President
Dave Brown/K8AX, Secretary Treasurer Rob Stampfli/KD8WK, Trustee Mike
Rauh/W8GT, and members WA8LBZ, W3CRZ, KC8DJR, K8LJ, guests Bob
Perdue and Kevin Howard/KD8DNO, and K8ON and KC8HIH who arrived late.

After a social hour, the meeting was called to order by President
Bill Erwin/N9CX at 7:10 PM.  We welcomed visitors Bob Perdue (a
friend of K8AX's and member of the microprocessor group) and Kevin
Howard/KD8DNO (a friend of K8LJ's).

The minutes from the previous meeting was approved as they appear
on the web site.  Treasurer's Report:  We have $1,724.39 in Telhio
checking/savings, $272.31 in our cash account, and $5,751.87 in
CDs.  Rob Stampfli/KD8WK reported four of our CDs would come up
for renewal next month.  He intends to roll them over in such a
way as to eventually have 5 5-year laddered CDs.

Bob Kenyon/K8LJ reported that we had 8 candidates at our VE session
at the Columbus Ham-OH-Rama hamfest earlier in the month.  All 8
earned a new license class.  Our next VE exams will be in December.

The report for the repeater committee was that the machine is working
well.  The hum problem is gone and the consensus is that the repeater
sounds good.

Bill reported that all our antennas had been removed from the tower
at Mt. Carmel, and all but three sections of the tower had been
disassembled.  He thanked the valiant club members who braved the
heat to undertake this task.  Bob reported that the antennas will
be disposed of through an auction.  First, they will be offered to
clubmembers, then to the extended local community, and finally, if
there are any remaining hardware, it will be auctioned on Ebay.
The tower sections will be similarly auctioned once we have them
in our possession.

Al Mecozzi/WA8LBZ motioned, and Dan Merrick/K8TX seconded, that the
club approve funds to buy a video projector for our meetings.  Rob
dissented, indicating that this had been discussed earlier in an
excomm meeting and the consensus was that we had sufficient access
to projectors so as not to warrant expending the our funds to acquire
one.  However, it was pointed out that at least one of the sources
was now more tenuous, and there appeared to be more support within
the club for acquiring a projector.  In the end, the motion was tabled
after Bob suggested a committee be appointed to study the options and
report back to the club with a recommendation.  Al, George Kinder/KC8DJR,
Dave Brown/K8AX, and Rob volunteered to be on the committee, and the
creation of this group was approved by a show of hands of the membership.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:45, after which Bill gave a fascinating
presentation on "Automated Amateur Radio Satellite Tracking on a Budget",
describing the hardware and software that was demoed for us at this
year's Field Day exercise, and including some of the things he had
learned from undertaking this project.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob