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Meeting was called to order by club President Bert Brooks at 7:35pm.

Club minutes were read by club secretary Tabitha Zier. Phil Bealing motioned and Albert May seconded, all favored and report was accepted.

Club treasury report was read by club treasurer Nevin Markle. Duane Sterner motioned and Don Schmitt seconded, all favored and report was accepted.

Announcements

Don Schmitt- TMI Drill on Tuesday night April 14 York County is still in need of people. Will be on the 146.97 repeater in York County

Repeater Report

Rudy Mullar- Two weeks prior the machine had been dropping off. Rudy went up this past Saturday and did some testing. He found that in the transmitter a cable has broken in the center conductor. He has purchased parts to fix the problem. He also plans to place a second fan and maybe a third fan to prevent overheating. Also preformed a standing wave test, results had been 1.2-1 in December and now are 1.4-1.
Antenna will be worked on and new brackets will be placed. The workers that went up the tower checked our antenna while they were up. They did fix a leg the had broken in the ice this winter. And Rodger gave us some pictures of our antenna.
They plan to start work sometime after June 26, 2009. We will need to purchase the new antenna and set money aside to pay the workers for placing it. We also need to decide how we will be paying for the antenna, be it on a credit card or club check. The worker usual go up in groups of 3- 4 men, Rudy has the number to call the tower company but he is estimating we will need around $1500 -$1700 dollars total for antenna and labor. The radio station is also mounting an aux FM antenna and the location of that may drop our antenna around 40 ft.

We also need to send a crew up to the sight around the beginning of June to do weed control. We will need about 10 people. The stairway outside is also in need of a coat of paint, it needs to be painted gray and we will need about 2- 3 gallons of weather proof or apoxie to finish the job.

Activities report

Springfest- April 18 at Brookside park We will be meeting Friday night around 5:30 to set up anyone that can help is needed. We are responsible for selling general admission tickets and parking cars. The website www.yorkhamfest.org/york-spring-hamfest.html contains all the layouts and other info about the hamfest. We need to use a different simplex this year, 147.495 will be used. Also set-up and tear down help is needed, also be aware of vendors as they leave, one left last year without paying.
Tan tickets are general admission green ticket are tail gaters and blue tickets have been give to seminar speakers.

Old Business

Field Day- Rudy Mullar is to send out an e-mail verifying the park is reserved for this year. Chairs have been set up as followed
Field Day Chair Person- Rudy Mullar
Equipment Chair Person- Nevin Markle
CW Chair Person- Chip Morgan
Phone Chair Person- Pat Stump
Food Chair Persons- Cathy Markle/ Tabitha Zier

New Business

York Hospital and a drill on March 9
Banquet is set for the May business meeting at the Railside Diner
T-shirt orders were taken and to be handed out at the banquet.

Motion to adjourn was made by Duane Sterner, and seconded by Pat Stump, all favored and motion carried. Meeting closed at 8:33pm.