Minutes of the May 02, 2026, C.C.A.R.C. Meeting

The Meeting was called to order at 9:58 a.m. by Dan, KV9N, President.

Secretary’s Report:

Jerry, KD9TSH, presented the minutes of April 18, 2026, meeting. The minutes were approved with three changes.

Updated Ed, K9PSR call sign from N9PSR to K9PSR at two places in the minutes first location when Ed called the meeting to order and the second location in the Treasurer’s Report.

Corrected the spelling of the location of the Fulton County ARES POTA event from Bob Ker Stat Nature Preserve to Bob Kern State Nature Preserve

Treasurer’s Report:

Dan, KV9N, presented the treasurer’s report, in the absence of Dave, N9WCQ.

Checking Account Balance as of April 18, 2026 -- $825.56

Deposit of $14.00 Donations received.

Ending Checking Balance $839.56

Savings Account Balance as of April 18, 2026 -- $1,493.49

Deposit of $0.18 for interest payment.

Ending Savings Balance $1,493.67

Total of both Checking and Savings $2,333.23

The treasurer’s report was approved as read.

Bills: 

$48.15 for Marion, KA9BYN, funeral flowers. We had a motion and the motion carried to pay the bill.

Net Control Manager

 Tom, KB9WSL, commented that we need to decide on what net script we are going to use. We also need to decide how to run the net either by a role call or by the suffix of the call sign (Alpha to Foxtrot). He also needs some volunteers for the weekly nets. Tom is also using NetLogger for our net (netlogger.org). This is a free software you can download.

Board of Directors

Since Dan, KV9N, stepped up to become President, we needed to fill his spot on the Board of Directors, we had a motion and passed to elect Tom, KB9WSL to fill the position.

Repeaters

Sven, K9SEB, reported that all repeaters are working and he has keys to the repeater cabinets and is going to put a copy at the EMA Building. Sven said he was going to give classes on how to check the repeaters and get in the controllers Sven also commented that we must wait about a second after keying up to transmit on the repeater. Sven gave a brief discussion on why we must wait before we transmit on the repeaters.

Todd, N9PVQ, asked if we can get the audio turned down on the weather radio.

Field Day

Dan, KV9N, reported that he has downloaded this year’s ARRL packet for field day. Operate for the full 24 hours? May not have as many stations as we had last year.

Inventory/Membership/Website

 Jerry, KD9TSH, going to maintain the inventory and website.

New and Old Business

Event Committee – Do we need to create a committee to get some events going for the club.

Picnic at Huston Park – Will discuss more at the next meeting.

Tailgate/Swap meet – Going to wait till after field day on this.

Jerry, KD9TSH, going to attempt to login to the ccarc.ind@gmail.com email account and if unable to log in will create a new email address. Jerry will also update the ARRL website.

Miscellaneous Information

We had a $16.00 donation.

No other business meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

The following members and guests attended the meeting Jerry Hoch, KD9TSH, Sven Barkman, K9SEB, Fred Schumacher, KC9KLL, Jon Mucker, N8XVE, Dan McDonald, KV9N, Dale Gaddis, N9ONJ, Jim Walt, K9WET, Tom Murry, KB9WSL, John Howard, KD9HGP, Benita Basham, KC9PM, Richard Bashman, K9ILU, Ed Norris, K9PSR, Phil McDonald, K9FOC, Dave Rothermel, K9DVL, Kyle Hobbs, NZ9R, Todd Ervin, N9PVQ, John Boughton, KB9SIR, Jeff Krysevig, KC9GCL, and Mike Flinn, WZ9Z.

C.C.A.R.C. Minutes for the May 2, 2026, meeting was prepared by Jerry, KD9TSH.