GARS March 2004

GARS Meeting Minutes 09-March-2004

The meeting started at 19:30 David Adcock turned the meeting over to John Davis. John announced the speaker for the March meeting Stan Edwards Gwinnett.County ARES EC. Stan did an ARES presentation.

ARES needs more trained people prior to an emergency.
ARES has a weekly net on Monday night on the GARS 2 meter repeater that starts at 21:00 eastern.

After a brief intermission the GARS meeting continued 20:49

Future events:

June is Field Day

VE testing is changing dates at St. John Neuman. It is moving from Friday nights to Sunday afternoon. There was an e-mail sent from the GARS reflector.
The upcoming Kennehoochee Hamfest will be at a new location, Life College.

http://go.to/karc .

The college tuition document was passed out by Carter Wood. David asked all in attendance to read through the document we will be voting on it later.

The six meter repeater is looking for someone that wants to learn more about repeaters an

upgrade is planned.

Committees:

The treasurer’s report was handed out by Dan Koehan.
A brief discussion on the scholarship fund, we are okay.
Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.
Last months minutes were accepted as published in the Garzette.
An application from Robert Harvey, KG4RJB was accepted on Voice vote.
Apparel - Dan has some orders to deliver.

We are still looking for a permanent GARS news letter editor.
Field Day chair person position is open. There are a few folks willing to help out.
Venture Group 73 Charter renewal successful for another year
- The next outing is April 3^rd location is open at this time.
Scholarship Committee – normally we would accept applications in Oct. Nov. time frame. Submit a simple essay, things that are looked at good grades, licenses, other honors. (Leave your name and call sign out of the essay.)

The scholarship document that was handed out earlier was accepted as presented.

A motion was put on the floor to accelerate the 2004 scholarship.

Applications will be accepted by the April Meeting.
Exec. Committee will bring numbered essays to the May meeting for a vote. (Only current High School seniors are eligible.)
A quick review of the document prior to voting for the candidate was requested.
Motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.

Gordon mentioned a special QCWA meeting. Mike K4HBI sent an announcement to the GARS reflector. April 3, at noon. "Croft Taylor, VE3CT, President of the national QCWA will address the Peach State Chapter 49 of QCWA. The meeting will be at the usual place, Fire Mountain Restaurant.

Meeting was closed at 21:22 eastern.

We have an interesting program scheduled for the March Meeting.
Be sure to attend.

Scheduled Program for the GARS Meeting March 9, 2004:
Stan Edwards, WA4DYD, on ARES

Through its Memorandum of Understanding with Gwinnett County Emergency Management, Gwinnett County ARES is recognized as the official representative of the Amateur Radio community for assistance provided during events which overtax the agency and commercial communications infrastructure. To provide expected resources, Gwinnett ARES provides training to its members who must be certified to be issued a unique ID that permits them to assist in those events. What has ARES been up to lately? What are we doing to prepare for the potential event where we are asked to respond to assist our community? What can you do to become part of this effort? All these questions and any you might have about ARES will be answered at the March meeting of GARS.

Posted 2/28/2004 Norman Schklar, WA4ZXV