Minutes TASMA General Meeting
Saturday, 10 August 2002
THESE MINUTES WERE APPROVED ON DECEMBER 14, 2002.
Chairman: | Bob Dengler, NO6B |
Vice-Chairman: | Pat Finke, KC6ACL |
Treasurer: | Jim Fortney, K6IYK |
Board Member-at-Large: | Ted Fukushima, N6ZZK |
Members present:
Guests:
Record of meeting:
Chairman Bob Dengler called to meeting to order at 10:15. The meeting was conducted in accordance with the agenda (See Attachment A).
There were 18 members present and 5 guests.
The attendees each introduced themselves to those present.
Chairman Bob Dengler announced that the TASMA Secretary, Eli Aguirre N6XPG would be resigning his position due to other commitments. Bob requested that anyone willing to serve out the remainder of Eli's term should contact Bob after the meeting or via e-mail.
Approval of Previous Minutes:
Treasurer Jim Fortney advised the Chairman that a quorum as defined in the Bylaws was not present. The meeting was suspended for a few minutes until enough late arrivals showed at the meeting to achieve a quorum. The meeting was then resumed with the reading of the minutes by Howard Brown, KG6GI. After reviewing and analyzing the minutes of the April 2002 TASMA General Meeting, as published on the web site, on motion by Mike Marin, KF6RQV, seconded by Pat Finke, KC6ACL, the minutes were approved without objection.
Treasurer’s Report:
Jim Fortney, K6IYK, presented to the group a year-to-date report to review the financial status of the second quarter of the year.
He reported that, like the first quarter, there was little activity in the second quarter. Jim also indicated that we had a substantial drop in membership count in the second quarter of the year.
As there was no July newsletter published, TASMA experienced $442 less expense than planned for the quarter. However, TASMA is behind on expected income from dues due to decreased membership. Jim advised the membership that there is no Board approved budget yet this year so he reported on his own forecast of expenses and he summarized the quarter as shown below.
On motion by Howard Brown, KG6GI, seconded by Pat Finke, KC6ACL, the treasurer's report was accepted without objection.
Correspondence summary:
Howard Brown, KG6GI reported for the year that TASMA has received 12 new membership applications, 30 membership renewals, 2 delegate membership applications, 2 delegate renewals, 3 interference complaints, 14 RFCs/RFC updates, 5 certified letter receipts, 10 newsletters, and 15 misc. administrative mailings.
Committee Reports:
Chairman Bob Dengler reported that he met with Amateur Radio Council of Arizona (ARCA) 2 meter coordinator Lance Halle, KW7LH at the Ft. Tuthill ham-fest in Flagstaff, AZ. Bob & Lance discussed a minor issue between TASMA's & ARCA's non-contiguous band-plans (15 kHz vs. 20 kHz). It was resolved that both TASMA & ARCA would try whenever possible to coordinate systems that are close to the TASMA/ARCA boundary on frequencies that are common to both band-plans.
Bob Dengler gave a detailed presentation of two band-plan proposals generated over the past year under consideration by the Technical Committee. Once the Band-plan Committee begins its work, it will be "seeded" with these two proposals. This will allow the Technical Committee to focus its efforts on frequency coordination. During the presentation, Bob indicated the need for a wide-split repeater pair for portable repeater operation, and demonstrated a self-contained portable repeater in a backpack that could utilize such a pair. Following the presentation there was a discussion regarding the problems involved in changing from 20 kHz channel spacing to 15 kHz spacing in the 145 MHz repeater sub-band, as one of the two proposals called for this change.
Nominations for 2003 Board:
Chairman Bob Dengler serially opened & closed nominations for each TASMA board position. The following members were nominated:
Position |
Nominee |
Nominated by |
Chairman |
Bob Dengler | Howard Brown |
Vice-Chairman |
Pat Finke | Howard Brown |
Secretary |
(none nominated) | - |
Treasurer |
Mike Marin | Jim Fortney |
Board Member-at-Large |
Howard Brown | Bob Dengler |
Report on database update project:
Howard Brown made a motion for TASMA to direct the Technical Committee to undertake a project of soliciting update information from trustees and/or contacts of all coordinated repeaters over a period to be determined by the Technical Committee, and to approve expenses associated with said project, the amount of the expenses to be determined by the Board. The motion was seconded by Mike Marin. The motion passed unanimously.
New business:
Bob Dengler asked for a volunteer to publish the November newsletter. Howard Brown volunteered to create the electronic image of the newsletter, Jim Fortney volunteered to provide the mailing labels, & Pat Finke volunteered to have the newsletter printed. Thus, these 3 volunteers will collectively be able to publish the November newsletter.
Program:
John Davidson KC6TFS, gave an interesting and informative presentation on using Bessel functions to estimate FM bandwidth. Following the talk, Bob Dengler presented some supplemental material on how the repeater transmitter deviation & modulation bandpass specifications in the TASMA Technical Specifications relate to FM bandwidth.
Next meeting:
The 2002 TASMA Annual Meeting is scheduled for Saturday December 14th, 2002 in Carlsbad at a location TBD.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 12:28 PM.
Transcribed by Bob Dengler, NO6B, Chairman, based on audio recording provided by Howard Brown KG6GI