The CRES Amateur Radio Club held its fourth general membership meeting
of the year on Thursday, 20 August 2009, at the New Albany library.
The following members and guests were in attendance:
    Bill Erwin / N9CX		(President)
    Bob Kenyon / K8LJ		(Vice President)
    Rob Stampfli / KD8WK	(Secretary)
    Bob Cartwright / W3CRZ	(Treasurer)
    Dave Woolf / K8RSP		(Station Trustee)
    Art Grandle / KD8ZG		(VE Liaison)
    Dave Brown / K8AX
    Fred Saas / WA8PGE
    Mike Stansbery / WD8EBS
    Gordy Lashley / WD8CZG
    Steve Katz / N8WL
    Weldon Mathews / K8NQ
    George Kinder / KC8DJR
    Dave Beckman
    Ed Weston / W8REW
    Dave Blake / N4DB
    Jim Kerr / K8KJ
    Dan Merrick / K8TX
    Jim Jennessee / KD8UT
    Al Mecozzi / WA8LBZ
    Tricia Kovacs / KC8HIH
    David Jeffords / K8ON
    George Foy / N8DLR
    Tom Foy / N4HAI
    Doug Gibbs / W8NFT
    Madhu Asar / KB8PV
    Bob Elek / W3HKK 		(guest)

The meeting was called to order by President Bill Erwin at 7:00 PM.

Bill had Jim Jennessee / KD8UT introduce himself.  Jim was visiting
Columbus and this was the first time he has attended one of our
meetings since he retired in 2001.  Bill also introduced new member
David Beckman, who is studying for his Tech exam.

The minutes from the June meeting were approved.

Bill gave the Treasurer's report for W3CRZ:

    $    20.00 in cash
    $ 7,573.87 CDs
    $   487.04 Checking
    $ 1,037.54 Savings
    ----------
    $ 9,118.45 Total

Dave Woolf gave the repeater a clean bill of health.

Art Grandle reported the VE team processed 21 candidates at the
exam session held earlier in the month at the Ham-OH-Rama hamfest,
including an entire family where everyone either obtained a license
or upgraded.  Our next exam session will be either the first or
second Saturday in December.

Old Business:  Bill announced we will be participating in the
Ohio State Parks On The Air (OSPOTA) event on September 12th.
As we did last year, there is a cookout planned in conjunction
with the event.

Bill stated the club had agreed to be the host location for the
CQ-WE contest in November.  This is the contest's 50th anniversary,
and CRES members have played an integral role in the contest over
the years.  Hosting the contest will involve designing, producing,
and disseminating the certificates of participation for the event.

Dave Brown told the club he had ordered too many Priority Mail
boxes from the post office, and would give some to anyone who
desired them.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 PM.  Afterwards, speaker Art
Towslee / WA8RMC gave an interesting talk on Amateur TV (the
PPT presentation is accessible from the Secretary's page at
w8zpf.cboh.org), with emphasis on the Columbus ATV community.
Al Mecozzi / WA8LBZ then gave an entertaining slide show of
pictures from this year's Field Day event.

Respectfully submitted,
Rob Stampfli / KD8WK
CRES-ARC Secretary