President’s Report
As we all know, Midwest Superfest is just a short time away! We desperately need your help to pull this off. We have had some setbacks, but I know that we will succeed! We had to change our location due to weather damage at the East Peoria Event Center, so Midwest Superfest 2022 is going to be held at Expo Gardens in Peoria, IL.
Again, I am asking for your help and support. Volunteers are needed from Thursday the 15th through Sunday the 18th. I will be working Security overnight on Friday and Saturday, but I would like to have at least one more person dedicated to this position. We need help with marking the flea market spots on Thursday. We need help at the front gate checking and selling tickets. We will have the logo stickers and magnets for sale at the Club Table and will need someone for that. These are just a few of the positions available. If you (or know anyone who) are willing and able to help in any position… Please contact Deb Suhs at WD9EB@ARRL.net ASAP!
I want to thank all of you who have supported the club and Superfest. Without you, we would not exist.
Justin Flick, N9WX President, PAARC
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Meeting Minutes: Membership
7:09 p.m.: meeting begins
Welcome to new member Adam (KD9SBI). Introductions all around.
Deb makes a motion to approve Bandbits, Jim seconds. Unanimous approval.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Savings: 235.32
Checking: 1423.85
Money market: 8395.91
PayPal: 280.37
470 in checks that deb has for Superfest tickets
Dion makes motion to approve, Jim seconds. It’s approved.
SUPERFEST UPDATE FROM DEB (Note that this report was made to the membership prior to the storm damage that forced us to move Superfest):
- All club members should have 10 tickets to buy or sell.
- Need to talk to Aaron about what’s going on at the Superfest site…
will make sure things are ready. - Justin says that air conditioning looks to be working because
condensation is gone from windows. Deb also noticed that the roof has
been redone. - Our contract with Three Sisters Park has been signed. Half of the
deposit has been sent to them (why our checking account is so flush.)
$750. Guaranteed price from 2023-2028. Then, the price will be
renegotiated for the next five years after that. As long as we want
Three Sisters on the third weekend of September, it’s ours. - Will use every building out there except the barn. If we need it, we
can add it as well.
Flea market will be in the campground area, which means some spots
will have guaranteed electric hookups. Will have room to expand, even.
Chapel will be used for forums. Meeting rooms for testing. - 50 amp service by the museum is for big vendor RVs
- Susan at Three Sisters has been real good to us, with nice breaks:
Only paying $3,500 for the weekend. And vendors won’t have to rush
out… they can even leave the next day. She’ll be at this year’s
event in East Peoria to check out how we have it set up. - Deb is getting pictures of Three Sisters in advance so we can have
flyers available THIS year for next year’s first event out there. - Deb has signup sheets on our website… Deb will work with Adam on
activating. Everything info-wise on Superfest is live and active (flea
market map, vendor letter, tickets, etc.) - We’ll have a simplex frequency for people there, so bring your HTs.
- Tables will be coming from just Pekin instead of two places. Rich
has a trailer lined up. - We have two food trucks reserved.
- If anybody is volunteering, they get a bright yellow shirt so people
know you’re there to help. Send Justin email ASAP with size
(n9wx.ares@gmail.com) - 2019 was 60 years of Superfest at Expo, so at least that old.
Jobs needed for SuperFest: - Talk-on for people who are lost.
- Ticket sales at the gate.
- Helping people to flea market spots
- Making announcements
- Meet Jim or Todd at Expo to get sound equipment we need
Two weeks from tonight, Superfest meeting is at the Red Cross.
REPEATER UPDATE FROM TOM:
- Echolink is up and running. It turns out that the router just needed rebooted.
- Suggests that Scott may want to train again on Echolink for membership.
- UHF D-STAR repeater is now shut down.
- We were hoping to move the 075 repeater to a taller tower, but
prices came in much higher and tower climbers were in short supply…
so postponing that move for now. - So now, Midwest is only charging for antennas in use instead of
what’s actually on the old tower. - Midwest is having another tower climber out for another client, so
we’re going to try to piggyback to have things checked on our setup
(we have some remaining issues with noise on the repeater.) - 075 is at 180ft and VHF DSTAR is at 160.
- Next job is getting out to Timber Hollis repeater and getting Fusion
back up (was an bad internet connection that has allegedly been
fixed.) Need to get there before the current fire chief is gone. - Moving things to the Proctor repeater site is probably dead.
- 61 is leased to the end of the year.
- Tower rent is $1,130 for six months for two antennas.
Any old business? No.
ARES from Rich:
- Has been slow because of no severe weather.
- Second WinLink set up at the bunker. Good opportunity to practice
sending from one radio to another. - Going through training.
- Will have a monthly meeting on Wednesday night at the bunker for a
tour. (Kickapoo)
Jim makes a motion to end meeting, Mark seconds. We
adjourn to Scott’s presentation on satellite work.
Additional item….
- Rich wants to start planning for a spring balloon launch in honor of
Fritz. If interested in planning, let him know. Unfortunately, very
little equipment survived the last few balloon launches. Got a bunch
of records from Fritz’s wife Susan but can’t even figure out what
model of balloon we were using. (NWS in Lincoln may know
manufacturers, though.)
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SuperFest
By now you know that we have had to move Midwest Superfest 2022 from the East Peoria Event Center to Exposition Gardens in Peoria due to storm damage to the front of the EP Event Center where our indoor vendors would be setting up. As Justin talked about in his President’s Message there are several jobs we need help with. Please keep an eye on the website, we will soon have a Midwest Superfest Jobs page that we are asking everyone to please help with. We will be discussing Midwest Superfest, what still needs to be done before hand and what we have to do during it at the monthly club meeting. If you have any questions before hand, please contact Deb WD9EB@ARRL.NET.
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Peoria County ARES
Sept 7, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CDT on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
Sept 14, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CDT on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
Sept 21, ARES On-line Conference @ 7:00 PM CST (Watch your email for Zoom conference info)
Call or email Rich if you are not on the ARES Roster and desire to join the Zoom Conference.
On-Line Conference Agenda includes: Infrastructure Activities, PAWS Event on 10/22, Training Documentation, How to reply to Winlink ICS 213 messages, and more.
Please submit your Training Documentation form.
ARES website: http://www.peoriacountyares.org/
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August Net Logs
8/7
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September Club Events
September 1 – 7:00 pm – Board of Directors Meeting – Zoom
September 7 – 7:00 pm – ARES Net – 146.075 Repeater
September 8 – 7:00 pm -Membership Meeting – Bartonville American Legion: Setting up and using EchoLink. Please install EchoLink on your laptop and/or phone before the meeting. Click here for information on how to install EchoLink.
September 15 – 7:00 pm – ARES Meeting
September 17 – 18, 2022 MIDWEST SUPERFEST – NEW LOCATION: EXPO GARDENS, 1601 W Northmoor Rd. Peoria – All (pink) tickets issued for the East Peoria location will be honored. Flea Market, Indoor Vendors, License Testing, Learn about DMR, Satellite Demo, Learn about Winlink, DXCC Card checking and more. – Purchase Tickets
September 29 – 7:00 pm -Superfest Meeting