April 2008 Board Meeting

The Rib Mountain Repeater Association

Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors

21 April 2008

WHRM-DTV Tech Workshop, Rib Mountain

Board members present:

Rich Maier KC9NW

Brian Seehafer N9ATQ

Dean Andrewjeski K9PT

Paul Nelles K9DB

Guest:  Dave Peters KC9LFG

The meeting was called to order at 19:38 CDT by President Rich Maier KC9NW. 

Secretary’s Report: K9DB

Printed copies of the minutes of the meeting of 17 March 2008 were distributed and accepted by

consensus as printed.

Treasurer’s Report: N9ATQ

            The treasury stands at $291.42.

            Since the annual meeting no new bills have been received, and no monies disbursed.

            $40 in dues have been received.

Accepted as presented by consensus.

Old Business:

Mailing to Members:

• KC9NW has prepared a draft letter for a mailing to the general membership. This will replace the mailing that was not made before the general membership meeting in November.

Website:

• K9PT repoted that Ivan Andrewjeski KB9RFB has incorporated PayPal into the website to facilitate dues payment. He said PayPal takes a fixed fee per transaction, about one dollar.

144.81/145.41 Repeater at Brighton:

• K9PT said he is researching options to get the repeater deployed at a temporary height.

IRLP:

• The control access to Echo-Link has been reconfigured.

• Due to people bringing up the link without identifying, the system has been reconfigured to only allow repeaters and users that have linked radios interfaced to bring up the link.

Autopatch:

• Autopatch has been restored to the 146.82 system. Due to past experience, access to the autopatch will be closed system, i.e.: restricted to RMRA members.

New Business:

Topics from the Floor:

• None

Meeting adjourned  20:32 CDT.

Respectfully Submitted,

Paul Nelles K9DB

Secretary