Minutes of the meeting for 08 10 2010

 The Clarksville Operating Radio Enthusiasts Group held it’s regular monthly meeting on August 10 2010.  The following topics were discussed.

• New 70cm repeater.
  • This new repeater is still waiting on tower work and is still not on the air.  More info will be posted as it comes availabe
• K4ORE Family Day picnic will be held on Saturday September 18 starting at 12 noon at the Creek-Side Pavilion at Destiny Parks and Pavilions on Fort Campbell.
  • Map and details to follow at a later date.
• Race to the Canal�
  • The C.O.R.E. group will once again be supporting the Race to the Canal bicycle race at Land Between the Lakes.
  • John Kee, KI4BWZ will act as net control
  • Volunteers should contact Communications Organizer Howard, K2CEM.
  • Date and times to be posted in the near future.
• 146.925 repeater status.
  • Repeater is functioning well and is tuned and adjusted properly.  
  • Occasionally interference from a repeater on the same pair located in Cleveland TN may be heard.  This is unavoidable and we just have to live with it.
• Repeater etiquette reminder
  • let the carrier drop before keying up.
    • This helps to allow the radio to stay cooler than if it’s transmitting constantly.
    • This is also a courtesy issue as it allows plenty of time for other operators to join the conversation.
• Upcoming presentations
  • September
    • Antenna and Propagation Modeling
      • Eric Gregory KJ4GXU
  • October
    • Weather
      • Mr. Bower
        • Confirmation and Details to follow.
• K4ORE Monthly meet and greet net Thursday August 19 2010
  • 146.925 repeater – 600 offset
    • 110.9 pl tone
  • begins at 7:00 am
  • All amateur radio operators are welcome to check-in

We look forward to seeing you at the next C.O.R.E. Group meeting.

C.O.R.E. Meeting rescheduled to Tuesday May 18 2010 – 6:30 PM

The May meeting for the Clarksville Operating Radio Enthusiasts has been rescheduled. The new meeting date will be Tuesday May 18 2010 at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be at the Park Lane Church of the Nazarene on Cunningham lane in room 115, directions are available on http://www.k4ore.net.

Meeting topics will include a presentation on repeater basics from Howard (K2CEM) as well as discussion and demonstration of N3FJP’s field day logging software led by Ed (KJ4IEU).

We look forward to seeing everyone at this meeting.

New Communications Tools for K4ORE

The Clarksville Operating Radio Enthusiasts are pleased to announce two new communications options we have for our group and the general public.

For members to keep in touch with one another we have created the K4ORE-Members group on google groups.  Members of C.O.R.E. can join this email reflector by going to http://groups.google.com/group/k4ore-members and requesting membership.

For those who just want to be kept up to date about the goings-on who are not members you can join the K4ORE announcements group at http://groups.google.com/group/k4ore-announcements.

 See you on the Air

KJ4GXU

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