{"id":4257,"date":"2019-07-05T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:17:10","slug":"ocra-board-meeting-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/2019\/07\/05\/ocra-board-meeting-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"OCRA Board Meeting &#8211; July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance:<\/p>\n<p>Steve W3AHL, Dave W4SAR, Karen KD4YJZ, Wilson W4BOH, Dan (KR4UB), Dee KU4GC, Keith W1KES, Lad W4ORD<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Report:<\/p>\n<p>The checking and saving balances are in line with ongoing expenses. The pre-pay meal approach proved again very successful with 47 dinners and 34 breakfasts.\u00a0 The more accurate head count for purchasing and preparing meals left little food with a net income of $93.<\/p>\n<p>Field Day:<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to Wilson W4BOH and his family for hosting, John KM4MDR for providing Friday lunch and facilitating meal preperation, and all the other OCRA\/DFMA members who assisted with set up, operation, and tear down.<\/p>\n<p>Notable events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather was very extremely favorable throughout the event<\/li>\n<li>Computer network was reliable, thanks to Steve W3HAL efforts<\/li>\n<li>The digi stations has some difficulty operating from the garage.\u00a0 Will need to identify opportunities for another location next year.<\/li>\n<li>Progation was very good with contacts made in Washington, California, and Hawaii<\/li>\n<li>Satellite proved difficult as power overload from a few sites made contacts difficult for others<\/li>\n<li>Consider using FT8 for kid contacts to avoid &#8220;mic fright&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Estimated contact points was 15,160, with bonus points was 17,310.<\/li>\n<li>Further discussion need regarding Friday&#8217;s lunch as pre-pay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please add your Field Day pictures and comments to the site.\u00a0 We would enjoy sharing in your special moments.<\/p>\n<p>Steve purchased automated external <b>defibrillator (<\/b>AED) battery and pads, which should be good for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Nick KA1HPM secured call sign KAM for a special event station to honor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/arrl-announces-happy-150-hiram-percy-maxim-birthday-celebration\">Hiram Percy Maxim 150 birthday<\/a>, co-founder of the ARRL.\u00a0 The two day special event will take place September 2, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.\u00a0 Mark your calendars now!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance: Steve W3AHL, Dave W4SAR, Karen KD4YJZ, Wilson W4BOH, Dan (KR4UB), Dee KU4GC, Keith W1KES, Lad W4ORD Treasurer Report: The checking and saving balances are in line with ongoing expenses. The pre-pay meal approach proved again very successful with 47 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/2019\/07\/05\/ocra-board-meeting-july-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-2020-earlier-board-mtgs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}