SnoVARC

Snoqualmie Valley Amateur Radio Club

June 2025 Meeting Minutes

by · June 19, 2025

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club

Monthly Meeting Minutes

June 3rd, 2025

I.  Call to Order:

The meeting was called to order by Tom at 7:00 pm on Zoom.

Members in attendance were:

Tom (WA7TBP), Kirt (K7KDW) – Vice President, Mike (KJ7JNG) – Secretary, Lindy (KG7IFA) Treasurer, Ken (W7ECK), Rowland (K7RWB), Larry (AF7RW), Shawn (K7ATA), Bob (KI7RMO)

II. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes

The meeting minutes from the meeting that occurred on May 6th, 2025 were approved.

III. Treasury Report and Financials

As of 6/03/25 there is $7,466 in the treasury. Kirt contributed $435 in Microsoft Matching dollars. Membership remains at 29.

IV. Committee and Task Force Reports

Repeater Task Force:

 Cougar Mountain Repeater – No changes from last meeting.

Myers Repeater – No changes from last meeting.

Carnation Repeater – No changes from last meeting.

Emergency Planning and Mobilization:

EYEWARN – Greg Bawden has taken over leadership of the team.

Education and Community Outreach:

Thursday Night Roundtable/Ham Development – No changes from last meeting.

Equipment Inventory Status – No changes since last meeting.

V. Old Business

Status of Club Shirts – Sandy contacted Mike confirming colors of the club logo. The hat will display the club logo embroidered on the front and his call sign embroidered on the back. Mike will follow-up with Sandy.

Field Day – This year Field Day will be at Valley Camp.

Unused Equipment Sale – We have a lot of equipment we no longer use, or have plans to use in the future. An off-site meeting will be held on how to sell/donate/dispose of the used equipment.

VI. New Business

Rich, KF7BJI, has offered to donate the 444.850 repeater to SNOVARC. The 444.850 repeater is in the same radio room as SNOVARC’s Cougar Mountain UHF repeater. Rich is also offering a spare 444.80 repeater. The SNOVARC and the 444.80 repeater already share the same antenna and combiner. Rich has also offered to donate the combiners and duplexers as well as the 444.850 repeater.

The 5th Thursday exercise ran into WINLINK complications. Lesson learned: Using phonetics is essential.

VII. Open Discussion

SNOVARC membership will meet after the Business Meeting adjourns to discuss accepting Rich’s offer to transfer the 444.850 repeater to SNOVARC.

Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m

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