October 2025 Meeting Minutes
Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club
Monthly Meeting Minutes
October 7th, 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) – President, Lindy (KG7IFA) – Treasurer, Mike (KJ7JNG) – Secretary, Ken (W7ECK), Konstantin (KK7KO), Bob (KI7RMO), Rowland (K7RWB)
II. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes
The meeting minutes from the meeting that occurred on September 2nd, 2025 were approved. Tom made the motion to approve the minutes. Mike seconded the motion. All members voted to approve the minutes. Motion passed.
III. Treasury Report and Financials
As of 10/7/25 there is $6,674.00 in the treasury. Membership increased to 31. The club spend $113 for a controller upgrade and the $125 Microsoft matching funds from last month was transferred to CDCCC. Tom made a motion to approve the financials as reported by Lindy. Rowland seconded the motion. All members approved. Motion passed.
IV. Committee and Task Force Reports
Repeater Task Force:
Cougar Mountain Repeater – New Cougar Mountain Repeater is in test mode at Tom’s home. Ken has not had to reset the existing Cougar Mountain repeater for a long time.
Myers Repeater – The Myers repeater is now linked to the Cougar Mountain repeater. Ken is working to get both repeaters aligned so they sound exactly alike when using the link to talk between the two repeaters. Ken is in the process of aligning the talk path by bleeding out the gain on Myers using a sound card, slightly backing off the input of port 2. Experimenting between port 2 and port 2TX. Each time Ken goes to the repeater site, he needs permission from the property owner that hosts the repeater. The property owner has been very accommodating and the club appreciates the property owner’s flexibility to allow access to the repeater site. Ken will be placing a thermostat that will control the lightbulb housed inside the repeater cabinet. Currently, a lightbulb is in the always on state to keep the repeater warm. By adding the thermostat, it will decrease power consumption and increase the life of the lightbulb.
Carnation Repeater – The City of Carnation is moving out of the building and that means we need to move the Carnation repeater to a new location. Lindy has volunteered her home as the new location for the Carnation repeater. Instead of performing coverage tests before we move the repeater to Lindy’s house, Tom suggested, and everyone agreed it would just be better to move it to Lindy’s home and perform RF coverage tests and see if we need to make any adjustments after the move. – No Change.
Emergency Planning and Mobilization:
EYEWARN – Official roll-out will take place on October 15th in downtown Issaquah.
Education and Community Outreach:
Thursday Night Roundtable/Ham Development – Not well attended, even with pizza available.
Equipment Inventory Status:
No change in inventory status. Most of the equipment is in the Lake Joy Fire Station. It would be to the club’s advantage that we offer the equipment for sale at the Lake Joy Fire Station. Tom will ask Lindy about selling the unused equipment and how to properly sell/gift/discard equipment and maintain the club’s standard accounting procedures.
V. Old Business
Status of Club Shirts – Rowland has been trying to contact Duvall Dazzling Designs to purchase a hat. He has not received a call back. Tom will ask the owner if small, individual orders are not the usual part of her business. Mike reported that when he was speaking to the owner, she was very busy with large group orders.
VI. New Business
Elmer session on Wednesday, 10/2 was “The Illustrated CERT” with John Trinterrud (K9ONR). This was a pre-recorded presentation that explained how to leverage amateur radio, WINLINK and QGIS transitioning from manual and analog processes to digital communications for CERT and their served agencies. This presentation was also available via zoom.
SNOVARC Christmas party at IXTAPA on Novelty Hill Road in Redmond Ridge on Thursday, December 4th at 6PM. The restaurant in located in the MARKETPLACE shopping center.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m
