Minutes of the General Meeting 3/05/1999
Held at the RSL Hall, Fred Bell Pde. East Victoria Park.
Meeting Commenced at 1950 Hours
| Present | ||
| VK6MT | Mal | President (in the chair) |
| VK6NT | John | Vice President |
| VK6LZ | Cliff | Secretary |
| VK6ZLZ | Christine | Treasurer/Membership Officer |
| VK6CSW | Clive | Committee/Net Control |
| VK6HAO | Peter | Committee |
| VK6UU | Will | Committee/Media Correspondent |
| VK6TRC | Rob | Committee/Auditor |
| VK6JI | Chris | BBS Sysop for VK6BBR |
| VK6LD | Dennis | BBS Sysop for VK6BBR |
| VK6NEC | Neil | |
| Apologies: | ||
| VK6FGL | Frank |
1. MinutesMinutes of General Meeting 1/03/99 accepted VK6UU/HAO carried.
(Note the April Meeting was devoted to a working bee for the newsletter)
2. Matters Arising
(a) UHF Tait Transceiver Project
Clive VK6CSW reported that he had a possible source of Audio Chips.
Action Clive to follow up.(b) Hollywood Site
Mal VK6MT had carried out further checks on the site and had found that the Hospital's pager system operates on 148 Mhz. It was thought that there was a danger that our repeater could cause interference to this pager system thus making it inadvisable to operate 2 Metre equipment from the site.John VK6NT suggested that the site might be used for the morse beacon with the beacon site then available for a repeater although access could be difficult.
(c) RAV Avon Valley
It had been planned to put in a split 2 Metre antenna system with phasing harness, however estimates show a cost of around $450.During discussion it was decided that the current usage did not warrant this expenditure unless the site was linked to Perth. There was a possibility of using some alternative antennai coupled with the installation of a 70cm yagi for linking back to VK6RUF at Rolleystone to guage usage.
Also stock of co-ax needs to be evaluated together with connectors - Will to check on connector situation.
Will raised the question of who is going to build the link equipment ? Not resolved!
Taits are almost finished.(d) USB Controller No further progress.
(e) RTH Tick Hill VK6TRC/VK6ZSE plan to top up batteries next Saturday.
3 Correspondence There was no correspondence
4 Membership
There are currently 70 financial members (renewals appear to have slowed down - Membership last year was 1415 Treasurer
The bank balance stands at $1599Peter VK6HAO asked if the previous years audited documents had been returned yet and the Treasurer replied in the negative.
Action: Peter offered to collect them from Ralph.
If unsuccessful, the reports to be deemed lost and be reconstituted from the records with a statement that the originals were audited.
6 T & G Net Clive VK6CSW reported that the net continues nicely.
7 General Business
(a) Discussion :
Current 29 Mhz FM Gateway on VK6RLM 2 Metre repeater should be moved to a simplex frequency thus returning RLM to normal use.Which Frequency - if out of Novice allocation there would be no need for tone access.
There would be band plan problems allocating a frequency below 146 Mhz.
Desensing problem with RLM.
Preference for top of band but could be pager interference.
Suggestion that the gateway could be made to beacon.
(b) Discussion on alternative sites (ie Group site)
Action: a subcommittee (TRC/MT/HAO) to talk to Estate Agents with a view to locating a suitable block of land, and to report back to next meeting.
(c) Committee correspondence to be E-Mailed to MT and TRC, but forwarded to HAO on packet. Action Secretary.
Meeting closed at 21.07 followed by the AGM
Secretary Cliff VK6LZ