West Australian Repeater Group (Inc.)

Minutes of the General Meeting 5/07/1999
Held at the RSL Hall, Fred Bell Pde. East Victoria Park.

Meeting Commenced at 1953 Hours

2 - Minutes:
The minutes of the June 1999 General Meeting were read and accepted
(VK6HAO/VK6TRC).

3 - Matters Arising:

3.1 - Taits:
Rob VK6TRC reported that one was running under test at the new Victoria Park
site as a packet station to test coverage, output was 25 watts.

Will VK6UU had found that he could only get about 17 watts output before
modification, but by changing the "inductor" he got almost 30 watts. Tended
to get hot - would need fans

Rob VK6TRC has completed 9 diode matrix boards for single frequency selection.

3.2 - VK6RAV:
Rob VK6TRC reported that he had spoken to the site manager, Jim VK6CA who said
that the noise problems had gone away but would probably return in with the
warmer weather, he was planning to work on the tower guys in the spring.

3.3 - VK6RTH:
Rob VK6TRC reported that the new antenna has been procured and that it was
planned to fit it on Sunday 11th July.

4 - Membership Report:
Christine VK6ZLZ reported that she had written out 148 Receipts covering 150
Members.
(Life Members are VK6YL, VK6UU, VK6CU, VK6MS, VK6WT)

5 - Treasurer's Report
Christine VK6ZLZ reported that she had banked $2,001, and that the latest bank
statement showed a balance of $2,641-29.

Expense claims submitted for payment are:
Advance Hire of Meeting Room (12 Months) 300-00
VK6UU - Cataby visit and parts 47-50
VK6TRC - Parts
Victoria Park site 104-90
Tic Hill 223-28
Tait Project 59-16 387-34
VK6LD - VK6BBR 1 x 300VA toroid transformer 69-00

Motion that these be paid VK6HAO/VK6CSW carried

6 - Correspondence:
Letter received from the Water Board quoting discounted fees for charitable
organisations as follows;
Application fee of $1000 per site (non-returnable),
Site Rental of $600 per annum.
plus $200 for power per annum.
Action: do nothing at this stage.

7 - Sunday Club Net:
VK6CSW reported that not a lot was discussed last Sunday, but 10 checked in.

8 - General Business

8.1 - Possible new sites were discussed;

8.1.1 - Kalamunda
Paul said there was a tower at Kalamunda near the power sub-station which
appeared to be not in use - he would try and get more information.

8.1.2 - Victoria Dam
Mal VK6MT and Will VK6UU reported that there was a disused site with 150 ft
guyed tower in good condition, brick building, within a fenced area with power
available (needs transformer and connection to 66Kv line).
However it is within 100 metres of some very high voltage power transmission
lines although at present the noise generated is not excessive

Probably owned by Water Board - see Correspondence above.

8.2 - Equipment Cabinet (Tardis)
To be removed from Ralph's QTH to Rolleystone site
Cliff VK6LZ offered to move it (again) but would need use of Hyab Truck to load
it onto ute.
Action Cliff to get quote for late on a Friday (Deliver Saturday Morning when
help is available).

8.3 - Victoria Park Site
VK6TRC has a packet station running to test coverage, under his call sign.

WARG now need to apply for a voice repeater licence for 438.425 Mhz Tx, 433.425
Mhz RX, Call sign preferred is VK6RVP.

In addition it was decided to include frequencies for possible future use as
follows:
Voice Repeater - 146.775 Mhz Tx - 146.175 Mhz Rx
Voice links - 420.200 Mhz, 440.150 Mhz, 440.400 Mhz.

Action the Secretary to apply to WIA(VK6) for endorsement of application for
license. On receipt of WIA approval apply to ACA for license.

8.4 - MTRC-1 Controller Board
Mal VK6MT described a new repeater control board that he is working on, this
generated much discussion on repeater linking controls.

8.5 - VK6BBR BBS survey
Dennis described the results of a survey he carried out on VK6BBR regarding
possible enhancements;
Some users wanted another 1200 baud 2 metre port to relieve congestion -
possible engineering problems.
Some wanted a 9600 baud port on either VHF or UHF.

There was then a discussion on the possibility of a 10 Metre 1200 baud FM Port,
this would need the design and fabrication of a 10 metre diplexer.

8.6 - CB Repeater
VK6TRC reported that he had had a request for the possible siting of a CB
repeater on one of the groups sites. This was seen as im-practical on the
current sites, however a future new site may be suitable, the group was not
against the concept.

8.7 The 40 Metre Gateway
Will VK6UU reported that the submission still appeared to not be getting
anywhere. It appeared that it was still not fully understood by the Federal WIA
Liaison Committee.

8.8 Dialex
There was some discussion on the possibility of VK6BBR being linked to Dialex,
however it was decided that this was not necessary as the WAADCA BBS VK6BBS was
adequate for Perth needs.

The meeting was declared closed at 2150 hrs.

VK6LZ Secretary

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