{"id":1266,"date":"2025-08-13T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:25:27","slug":"minutes-august-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Minutes: August 12, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1900 Meeting called to order<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Faces<\/strong><br \/>\n* Mathew Wineland, AD\u00d8QP<br \/>\n* Marc Grygier, KF\u00d8VAH<br \/>\n* Eric Hanson, KF\u00d8QFH<br \/>\nIntroductions were made.<br \/>\n<strong>Announcements<\/strong><br \/>\n* Upcoming KS QSO Party August 30\/31<br \/>\n* CERT meeting Thursday. All are welcome. The meeting at 7 p.m. in the Hutchinson Law Enforcement Office, next to the Reno County Courthouse. Be there early to get inside, unless you have open arrest warrants.<br \/>\n<strong>July Minutes<\/strong><br \/>\nPhil\/Dan \u2013 motion, passed<br \/>\n<strong>Treasurer&#8217;s report<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent checking balance is $3,638.72. The CD is at $5,327.21. Jeff\/Zack motion, passed.<br \/>\n<strong>Repeater Trustee<\/strong><br \/>\n* 147.120 is nominal.<br \/>\n* 146.670: AC\u00d8RL has aligned another set of duplexer cans, and they have been installed in the recently restored cabinet. Installation of the new duplexer will be Wednesday morning 8\/13 (see below).<br \/>\n<strong>Old Business<\/strong><br \/>\nOur 2025 Hamfest was a success by any measure, no injuries, hurt feelings, just fun! The club netted $616 to the general fund. The only complaint was that we did not hold a raffle. Since the club is not a 501(C)(3) charitable organization, we cannot legally raffle anything. Two fellows passed their tech exams at the hamfest.<br \/>\n<strong>New Business<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Kansas QSO Party will be held at AC\u00d8RL\u2019s QTH, 1824 Nickerson Blvd., Hutchinson. Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. August 30, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. August 30. Motion was made to rent a porta-potty for the QSO party, Joe\/Phil moved and passed (so to speak).<br \/>\n<strong>NCS<\/strong><br \/>\n* 8\/19: W\u00d8ZC<br \/>\n* 8\/26: KA\u00d8NES<br \/>\n* 9\/2: AC\u00d8MO<\/p>\n<p>2001 meeting adjourned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum<br \/>\n<\/strong>This morning (August 13), KB\u00d8SQL, AC\u00d8MO, KF\u00d8BZM, and AC\u00d8RL went out to the Partridge repeater site and installed the new duplexer. The 146.670 (103.5 tone) repeater is up and completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1900 Meeting called to order New Faces * Mathew Wineland, AD\u00d8QP * Marc Grygier, KF\u00d8VAH * Eric Hanson, KF\u00d8QFH Introductions were made. Announcements * Upcoming KS QSO Party August 30\/31 * CERT meeting Thursday. All are welcome. The meeting at 7 p.m. in the Hutchinson Law Enforcement Office, next to the Reno County Courthouse. Be there early to get inside, unless you have open arrest warrants. July Minutes Phil\/Dan \u2013 motion, passed Treasurer&#8217;s report Current checking balance is $3,638.72. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/?p=1266\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[197,195,175,60,14,13,110],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes","tag-cert","tag-duplexers","tag-hamfest-25","tag-kansas-qso-party","tag-meeting","tag-minutes","tag-repeater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rckara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}