President’s Report
April showers bring May Flowers. Let’s hope that we have pleasant weather for our Parks On The Air event that is fast approaching. I know I am excited to actually test my gear past the one-day mark. Again, this is a public event. May 6th through 8th. Check in is at 3pm on Friday and we will be wrapping up by 1pm on Sunday. Bring out your gear and have some fun! If you do not have any gear, there will be a GOTA or Get On The Air station set up. We will be using our own callsigns for the main event and the GOTA will be the Club call. If you want to grill out… There is a grill cover over the fire pit. Please bring all food/drinks/condiments you may want/need. Also, if you want to use charcoal… Bring that as well. There are primitive restrooms near the site.
My personal site is 033. Look for the Club POTA sign. We have a couple of members that have reserved spaces across the path from me and another that is next to me. We are going to be towards the back of the campground so hopefully we will not disrupt anyone. Please, always follow all rules and regulations of the park. I want this to be a magnificent event for everyone, not just us, but the public as well.
In other news: Field Day 2022 is booked at the American Legion in Bartonville! June 25th and 26th from 1200p Saturday to 1p Sunday. We will most likely be in the garaged area and have the back field opem for our antennas. Bathrooms will be open, but we’re unsure about concessions at this time.
As always, be weather aware for the next few months.
Justin Flick, N9WX
President PAARC 2022
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Meeting Minutes: Board of Directors
Before the meeting…
From Thom Beebe, W9RY, Illinois section manager:
- will start sending us a new ham report with contact info that we can use to reach out to new possible members
- confirmed that we’ll host the Illinois division at the 2022 SuperFest and have officially expressed a desire for hosting both Illinois and Central divisions for the 2023 at Three Sisters Park. He’ll get back to us on the Central hosting.
7:15 p.m.: regular meeting portion begins…
We lost the Knights of Columbus testing site, but are now going to have exams in Hopedale at the Winter Field Day site.
Motion to approve April Bandbits… approved unanimously.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
- Deb will meet with John tomorrow to hand off deposits.
- Deb will email Adam with new members who sent in via snail mail… and Adam will update member roll in Google Drive.
- $875.15 in PayPal… will move $775 over to checking.
- CEFCU: $235.28 in savings, $2,683.99 in checking, $8,393.48 in money market
- Deb makes motion to approve report. John seconds. Motion carries unanimously.
- Deb asks if we have too much in checking and should move some to savings. Proposes $1000 in checking, $2000 in savings and the rest to money market. No vote taken on this.
Next club meeting is at American Legion in Bartonville. Scott has to join Sons of the American Legion for $40/year to have free use of the facilities during the year. They would also like us to do classes for their members and have testing sessions held there. Justin makes motion to pay Scott’s membership fee of $40. Tom seconds and the membership approves unanimously.
REPEATER COMMITTEE REPORT:
- Justin will reach out about the third antenna on the tower… will likely have to get it removed ourselves with a climber. (Scott will find out if Civic Center riggers can do the work with proper
insurance.) - Matt reports that they have internet installed for the .85 repeater. He’ll go out and get it set up for Fusion use.
We apparently didn’t send in our not-for-profit paperwork to the Secretary of State’s office last year, so we’ll need to get it reinstated. John asks if we filed our state tax info last year… uncertainty among group if we’ve done that recently. Could be why our corporation was dissolved? Deb will get with John on the letter we received and try to get things squared away.
SUPERFEST REPORT:
- Deb would like to pay the deposit and sign a contract to make it official where we’ll be for SuperFest in 2022. Thinks deposit is $500? Whole thing at $1450, which is $1000 off from last year due to broken A/C. Motion to do so… approved.
- Three Sisters is working on our contract for 2023. $2500 was the original spending plan, but haven’t heard if approved yet. They’ll be doing concessions, not us. We’ll be using the chapel for forums. For the museum, we’ll use one room for testing if need be. Campground will
be for the flea market. The old event manager died of a heart attack, so we have a new one now (his niece.) - John suggests a place in Morton that loans out skinny orange cones to help label the different sections for the flea market. Matt says that we have a bunch of the shorter cones. John says that the taller ones are free, but we just need to reserve them… he’ll check and see if any are available that aren’t reserved for Pumpkin Fest.
- Matt has prize letters ready to go out, so will start on that in the next couple of weeks.
- Deb will mock up tickets, send out for approval, then give to Rapid Printing for a quote (they beat other options last year by a lot.) John does mention a ticket printing website as an alternative option (raffletickets.com)
- Trying to figure out where to have the next Super Fest meeting…
Adam mentions that he changed w9uvi.org from HTTP to HTTPS (SSL secure) and did some other behind-the-scenes work to make our website a little faster. Deb mentions wanting to change the website theme, so will plan a time to discuss in the future.
Deb will try to stop by the Red Cross and take the silent key plaque off of a door in the radio room… Fritz and Ron aren’t on there. Will get their names added along with a couple other former members. Will also check on the status of using the building in the future… will table any formal discussion until we have a chance to check out the American Legion facilities. Scott asks for access to the radio room and Justin will make that happen.
Deb asks where we’ll have summer Field Day in two months. If American Legion is available, we’ll book it (motion by John, membership passes.) Beyond our canopy and such, they also have a giant pavilion that could be used on-site.
Meeting adjourned at 8:14 p.m.
Meeting Minutes: Membership
4/247:13p meeting begins
Justin makes introductions and everyone attending takes a turn.
Band Bits from last month? Rob motions, Matt seconds. Approved.
On May 3, Matt is meeting Russ at the repeater site; will take a
laptop out to set up WIRES-X.
EchoLink should be working fine on the .075 repeater.
As of April 7, treasury report
$235.28 in savings
$2683.9 in checking
Deb pulled envelopes from our PO BOX, along with several new memberships.
$155/6 years for use of the American Legion
Deb accepts report, Scott seconds. All in favor and it passes.
SuperFest report:
It’s the third weekend in September and has been renamed Midwest
Superfest since it is no longer in Peoria.
Next year will be the first year out at Three Sisters Park.
Deb is meeting tomorrow to hand over a check for $1000 for this year’s
East Peoria site.
She’s still waiting on the contract from Three Sisters for 2023.
This year, the club will host the Illinois ARRL section conference.
Next year, we will do Illinois again AND have asked to host the
Central division.
Matt is working on prizes already.
Scott will do a satellite demonstration at Superfest. And other
members will do sessions as well.
Will host SuperFest meeting at 7pm in two weeks on Zoom. If you have
any ideas for Superfest, let the committee know.
No old business.
New business:
Thinking of having Field Day at American Legion. Just need to check
the date to see if it’s available. There’s a pavilion with garage doors available, bathrooms, and a field out back. John has motion to host it at the Legion, Rob seconds, all approve.
Mother’s Day weekend is Parks on the Air at Starved Rock. Three spots
already booked for camping, maybe more (may be some extra space
available from members). If anybody wants to come for the day, they’re
welcome to join. Details will be on website/social, but Friday 3 pm
until around 3pm on Sunday.
Don’t think alcohol is technically allowed out there… wink wink.
Rich says that if you’re interested in all things emergency, there’s a
big event at Grand Prairie (Emergency Expo) with departments showing off their gear:
July 12 at 4:30pm.
At 7:34pm, Rich moves to adjourn, Jim seconds… the business portion
is over. Scott begins his presentation on OpenSpot.
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Peoria County ARES
May 4, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CST on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
May 11, ARES Net @ 7:00 PM CST on the W9UVI (147.075) repeater
May 19, ARES Monthly Meeting @ 7:00 PM CDT – Bartonville American Legion Hall, 4501 S. Airport Road, Bartonville IL, 61607. This is a Thursday, rather than a Wednesday. No Zoom.
If coming from Peoria, continue south through the 4-way stop at Limestone High School. Take the second entrance (near the jet aircraft) for the Legion building, then come inside on the south side of the building.
The monthly meeting agenda is To Be Determined (TBD). Come and find out. I hope to make it interesting and informative.
ARES website: http://www.peoriacountyares.org/
Rich Holtman, KD9ANU, Assistant Emergency Coordinator for Peoria County ARES
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SuperFest
The May Superfest meeting will be Thursday May 26th, location to be determined. Midwest Superfest 2022 will also be hosting the ARRL Illinois Convention and for our forums we are planning to highlight different contact modes. We have confirmed a satellite demonstration and a WinLink demonstration. We would like to have other modes, like FT8, EchoLink, DMR, RTTY or PSK31. If anyone would like to volunteer to do a presentation on one or more of these modes it would be appreciated, just let Deb (wd9eb@arrl.net) know.
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April Net Logs
4/3
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4/10
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4/17
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4/24
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May Club Events
May 4 – 7:00 pm: ARES Net – 146.075 Repeater
May 5 – 7:00 pm: Board of Directors Meeting via Zoom.
May 6-8 – Parks On The Air (POTA) camping trip/activation: Starved Rock State Park. Contact Justin, N9WX (site 33) for details.
May 11 – 7:00 pm: ARES Net – 146.075 Repeater
May 12 – 7:00 p.m. Club Meeting – CANCELLED
May 19 – THURSDAY: ARES Meeting. This will be live, in-person, at the Bartonville American Legion, 4501 S. Airport Road, Bartonville IL, 61607
May 26 – 7:00 pm: Superfest Meeting – location TBA