The CRES Amateur Radio Club held a general membership meeting on
Thursday, 18 December 2008, at the New Albany library. The following
members were in attendance:
    Bill Erwin / N9CX
    Dave Brown / K8AX
    Tricia Kovacs / KC8HIH
    Al Mecozzi / WA8LBZ
    Dave Blake / N4DB
    Steven Katz / N8WL
    Bob Kenyon / K8LJ
    Steven Pezzi / K8PEZ
    Bob Cartwright / W3CRZ
    George Kinder / KC8DJR
    Fred Saas / WA8PGE
    Art Grandle / KD8ZG
    Dave Woolf / K8RSP
    Doug Gibbs / W8NFT
    David Jeffords / K8ON
The following guests were in attendance:
    Mike Mickelson / KD8DZ
    Kevin Lewis / KD8JWD
    Wally Blackburn / AA8DX
    Larry Foster / K8BBQ
    Bob Perdue
    James Elliott / KC8NMI
    Pete Elliott / W8KRR

The meeting was called to order by President Bill Erwin at 7:00 PM.  At
this time, Bill passed out tickets for a mystery drawing to be held
later in the meeting.

Our visitors were introduced.

A call for corrections to the minutes from the last meeting were
requested.  None were given.

Dave Woolf gave the following Treasurer's report for Rob Stampfli:  We
currently have:
    $ 7,534.23 in Telhio CDs
    $ 1,091.33 in our Telhio Checking/Savings accounts
    $   142.39 in our cash account
    $    30.00 in undeposited checks
    -------------------
    $ 8,797.95
We have 41 active members, of which 11 have already renewed for 2009. 
Our 2008 annual budget was initially set at $630.  So far this year we
have taken in $1,321.94 and expended $1,158.56.  Dave Woolf said he
would collect dues at the meeting.

Dave Woolf reported that the repeater is running fine.

Art Grandle reported the VE team gave exams at the Parkview Presbyterian
Church on December 6th.  There were 11 VEs present, 4 people took
examinations and 3 passed.  There will be another VE session in April.

Old Business:  None.

New Business:  Dave Brown reported that the Southwest Ohio Digital and
Technical Symposium will be held on Saturday, January 10th 2009, at the
Middletown Ohio campus of Miami University.  This is an ARRL sanctioned
conference that has been held annually for over 20 years.  There is a
line-up of technical presentations as well as several live
demonstrations.  Bill Erwin, N9CX, will give one of the presentations
with a version of his talk on microcomputer control of satellite antenna
positioning.  See December 2008 QST, page 96, for more information on
the symposium.  Dave Brown will send e-mail to the club in early January
about car pooling to the symposium.

Club officer elections.  Rob Stampfli was the single member of the
election committee this year.  Rob could not attend the meeting, so Bill
Erwin presented the following slate of candidates along with an
invitation for other nominations from the floor:
	Treasurer:	Bob Cartwright, W3CRZ
	Secretary:	Rob Stampfli, KD8WK
	Vice President:	Bob Kenyon, K8LJ
	President:	Bill Erwin, N9CX
There were no nominations from the floor.  Art Grandle made a motion
that the club accept these candidates for the club officer positions. 
Dave Blake seconded the motion.  All members approved the motion.

The mystery drawing was held.  David Jeffords won a CD containing
photographs of the W8ZPF 2008 Field Day operations.

The business portion of the meeting was closed and Bob Kenyon, K8LJ,
gave a PowerPoint presentation on transmission lines.  Bob talked about
and showed a variety of coaxial connectors, defined non-resonant and
resonant transmission lines, explained how incident and reflected waves
formed a standing wave that in turn defines the Standing Wave Ratio
(SWR).  Bob explained the origin of the Smith Chart and how it can be
used to replace complex mathematical transmission line calculations.  In
particular, Bob explained how the Smith Chart can be used to design a
stub matching section to match an antenna to a particular transmission
line impedance.  Bob concluded his presentation with a demonstration of
TLDetails, a marvelous and free software program that shows you SWR and
power loss for a user supplied transmission line type and terminating
(antenna) impedance.  Bob answered questions before concluding his talk.

The meeting was adjourned a little before 9:30 PM

Minutes submitted by Dave Brown / K8AX