W5SFA
The Stephen
F. Austin Radio Club, Inc.
An Association of Amateur Radio Operators in the Austin, Fayette and
Waller County Areas
Mailing Address: 12172 FM-949
Cat Spring, TX 78933
Meetings: Last Wednesday of each
month
Repeaters: 145.410 (W5SFA – PL 100.0)
444.875 (W5SFA
– PL 103.5)
2001-02 Officers: President, Dave Jenkins, K5KX
Vice President, Robert Croker, AD5ME
Secretary/Treasurer, Linda Pleasant,
N5LXG
February 25, 2004
The
W5SFA Radio Club meeting was called to order by Dave Jenkins, K5KX, at 1900
hours.
The
January minutes were read and approved as read. The Treasurer’s report was given and the balance is $582.58.
Old
Business:
Robert
will inform the repeater coordinator that the 146.96 repeater in Houston is now
under the W5SFA/HAC merger and will be controlled by W5SFA.
The
repeater duplexer is bad and parts will be replaced. The repeater should be up the first week of March. A motion for a $100 gift check for parts and
service on the repeater was made by Robert and was seconded by Wade. It passed by voice vote.
1915hrs….
Kathy,
KB5ITB, called the HAC annual meeting to order for the final vote to merge the
two clubs into the W5SFA radio club.
Don & Sue Shurman, WB5SHT & WB5SHS will be honorary
members. The bank balance is $____________
and will be deposited in the W5SFA checking account at Wells Fargo in
Bellville. Dave made a motion to
accept the offer of HAC. The motion was
seconded by Carl, K5OWC. It was
approved by voice vote.
Tom
of Star WISP has offered W5SFA use of his tower in Cat Spring, TX in trade for
sweat equity in keeping up his building.
It was decided to wait until the March county elections were over to
make a decision.
The
Bellville Hospital radio is ready to install.
March 12th was the day picked to do the installation.
Robert
will talk to Mike Hardwick about T-Shirts.
Mike will try to make the next meeting as he had an emergency and could
not attend this meeting. The MS-150
bike ride is April 17th and Mike Hardwick, N5VCX, needs all of the
operators he can find. Current
volunteers are Wade, Industry; Dave, Nelsonville; Carl, the fair grounds.
New
Business:
We
have two new members: Tom Stokes,
KD5MER and Valerie Eakin, KD5MIC. They
moved from Houston this past summer to Bellville. Welcome.
Election
candidates of 2004/2005 officers must be presented at the next meeting so it
can be published and voted on during the May meeting. Our year ends May 31st and the new officers take over
in June.
The
Brenham Ham Swap Meet is scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 8 AM to 12 Noon.
Submitted
by
Dan
White
Acting
Sec/Tres.
Thomas
Stokes, KD5MER
6587
Stokes Road
Bellville,
TX 77418
Email:
majortom@ev1.net
Home:
979-865-2031
Cell: 713-545-0989
Valerie
Eakin, KD5MIC
6587
Stokes Road
Bellville,
TX 77418
B/Home:
281-890-2513
Cell:
713-545-0742