Saratoga Amateur Radio Association

Minutes of the monthly meeting of November 13, 2002

The meeting was called to order by President Rob Vance, N6ROB, at 7:30 pm,

with 10 people present.

Rob mentioned that last months meeting was a tour of County

Communications, given by Dave Schultheis, WB6KHP.

A fun time was had by all, and a big thanks to Dave for showing the facility

to us.

Don Anastasia passed out an updated phone tree list, and asked people for

additions and corrections.

Don told us that the packet station at city hall is fully functional, and he

handed out written instructions for operating it.

John Mc Cartney and Don Anastasia have been working hard revising and updating

the Saratoga ARES/RACES Handbook.

They had a few draft copies which were passed around for people to look at.

As Emergency Coordinator for the city of Saratoga, Don Anastasia presented John

Mc Cartney a certificate from ARRL, for all of his hard work as Assistant EC

for the city.

Don told us that our Field Day results are on page 100 of the November QST.

Our presentation for the evening was given by President Rob Vance, N6ROB.

He told us all about the club's new repeater, which he and John Glass, NU6P

have put together.

Rob started the presentation by thanking Dan Smith, K6PRK for building our

first repeater, and for hosting it at his house for the last 5 years.

Next, he showed pictures, and described in detail the process he went through

to obtain all of the equipment, and how he modified the GE MASTR mobile radio

for repeater operation.

The new controller has a built in clock and voice synthesizer, which allows it

to automatically remind people about club nets and meetings.

A code sheet was passed out to all members, so that they can try out all of the

new features.

There being no further business before the Association, the meeting was

adjourned at approximately 9:00 PM.

Submitted by John Glass, NU6P, SARA Secretary for 2002.