From fridaymanyfeathers at gmail.com Sat Nov 1 18:49:16 2025 From: fridaymanyfeathers at gmail.com (Friday Ululani) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:49:16 -0700 Subject: [Harc] Minutes of our October meeting Message-ID: <897a1515-2b84-4588-8773-fb6eb6e4891f@gmail.com> Here are my draft minutes from our last meeting. If you attended that meeting, please review, comment, and offer corrections for these minutes. These minutes will be presented at our November meeting, for approval by vote. There are two entries in these draft minutes which are printed in red text.  They are items about which I had some questions or confusion.  If you can shed light on those items, particularly, it will be very helpful. Thanks! Friday W6FRI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At that December meeting we will need a quorum of 1/3 of our active membership, about 20 folks, voting in some capacity. Active members will be those who's 2026 membership is paid. Again, the HARC website now offers on-line payment capabilities for both dues and general financial donations. HARC dues comes up September 1st. for the following year. https://www.humboldt-arc.org/about/membership-application/ If you prefer to attend this next HARC meeting via ZOOM here is the link: https://humboldtstate.zoom.us/j/82507055155?pwd=enl1bnFYakN1TVRpdmFyenI5czl2QT09 I am looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting, Randy Terra KN6NSK HARC President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I have attached the treasurer's report for the month of October, 2025.  Please note that the CD's term is up tomorrow.  With the agreement of the rest of the board, I have instructed Coast Central to add $1,000 to it and reinvest it for another 6 months. Early withdrawal penalties are one month's earnings ($20-ish) so it really is available if we need it. If you have any questions, you can send them to me or ask at the meeting.  With the predicted weather, I'll probably be on Zoom. Richard Kern, treasurer KN6RK   -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At this meeting we will be accepting nominations for our Board of Directors election that will take place in December. At that December meeting we will need a quorum of 1/3 of our active membership, about 20 folks, voting in some capacity. Active members will be those who's 2026 membership is paid. Again, the HARC website now offers on-line payment capabilities for both dues and general financial donations. HARC dues comes up September 1st. for the following year. https://www.humboldt-arc.org/about/membership-application/ If you prefer to attend this next HARC meeting via ZOOM here is the link: https://humboldtstate.zoom.us/j/82507055155?pwd=enl1bnFYakN1TVRpdmFyenI5czl2QT09 I am looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting, Randy Terra KN6NSK HARC President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I recently built this kit, and am happy to assist others who might be interested. It's QRP so 3-5 Watts depending on how you wind your filter toroids, but I think QRP is a fun challenge—I recently "activated" Trinidad State Beach for Parks On The Air using 3 Watts on SSB and it was really exciting. I'm going to try HF Winlink as soon as I have some time to figure it out. https://qrp-labs.com/qmxp.html Jacob KO6JNQ On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM Friday Ululani via Harc < harc at reflector.humboldt-arc.org> wrote: > Hi, everyone. > As mentioned at last night's HARC meeting, I have added 10m to my HF > Winlink Gateway. 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Here is our list of nominees: Richard Kern KN6RK for Secretary Friday Uluani for Secretary Jim Fall K6FWT for Vice President Gene Bass K6PCS for Vice President Randy Terra KN6NSK for President Please double check the status of your 2026 dues being paid if you aren't sure before you vote. I have included a Google form that we can use to start tallying votes. We will let this run until 7:15 at the December 2nd meeting. We will collect in person votes at the meeting as well. We will then count the votes and be ready for the new year! Thank you for your participation. Randy Terra KN6NSK Please vote here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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