Saratoga Amateur Radio Association

Minutes of the monthly meeting of January 8, 2003

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

with 10 people present.

The minutes of the December meeting were read and approved.

Robreviewed our accomplishments for 2002. They include:

q Mailed a flier to all Saratoga hams, encouraging them to participate in the

q club.

q Increased our treasury by 300 dollars with 30 members.

q Built a new repeater.

q Created a new web site.

q Had a nice field Day.

q Had ten club meetings.

q Successful Halloween Caper.

q Created an updated emergency operations manual.

q Participated in some emergency preparedness drills at city hall.

q Don Anastasia has installed 2 meter antennas at several local schools and received positive feedback from the maintenance supervisor for his efforts. Don Anastasia will be putting up additional antennas at Saratoga High School, and St. Andrews.

q Don updated people's responder id cards with the latest sticker and new city id badges will be available at the February meeting.

Elections were held, and the following people were elected:

President, Rob Vance N6ROB

Vice President, John Glass NU6P

Secretary, Greg Reynolds KG6HDI

Treasurer, Yin Shih N9YS

Board Members, Don Anastasia AA6W, Don Farwell W6GYD, and Jay Geddes WA6CAI

Next, we discussed things to do for this year. The following items were

suggested:

q Publicize our successes to the city and Sheriff. It was suggested that we try to get letters for the city from organizations we help to acknowledge our contributions. Lou told us that the Halloween Caper has been going on for about 12 years, and has been one of our most successful public service activities saving the City several thousand dollars per year by preventing vandalism.

q Update Saratoga id badges

q Distribute our updated handbook to members.

q Have Field Day.

q Halloween Caper

q Install antennas at Saratoga High School and St. Andrews

q We will have a separate meeting to discuss emergency response and assignments when disaster strikes

There being no further business before the Association, the meeting was adjourned at 8:32 pm.

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