{"id":696,"date":"2017-11-06T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/?p=696"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:09:14","slug":"ocra-board-meeting-october-30-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/2017\/11\/06\/ocra-board-meeting-october-30-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"OCRA Board Meeting – October 30, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCRA Board Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendees:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan (KR4UB), Mike (KK4BPH), Dave (W4SAR), Karen (KD4YJZ), Sherri (WB4OSU), Lad (W4ORD), and Keith (W1KES)<\/p>\n

Topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treasure Report: 73 membership dues are current and an appropriate reserve balance is in our accounts<\/p>\n

UNC Repeater<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan mentioned that Steve has worked with Tower Engineering Group.\u00a0 Dan and Steve will request a quote from Tower to finalize the repeater drawings, and install the repeater.\u00a0 Dan and Steve will bring the quote back to the Board for discussion.<\/p>\n

Back Up Repeater<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave made an executive decisions to purchase a backup repeater, after consulting with the Board. The new backup repeater is identical to the one currently in operation.\u00a0 This particular model is now discontinued, thus the urgency to purchase.\u00a0 The new repeater was $1,000 and can be cloned to provide additional continuity for the existing repeater for many years.<\/p>\n

For comparison, a newer repeater model is roughly $4000.\u00a0 While the new repeaters are both digital and analogue, the additional cost would not have provided an identical clone to the existing repeater.\u00a0 With the cost of tower work now around $1,000 per incident, cloning the existing repeater and having a ready backup made better fiscal sense than purchasing a newer repeater model.<\/p>\n

OCRA Christmas Dinner<\/strong><\/p>\n

The OCRA Christmas Dinner will be held again at the Hillsborough Exchange Club<\/a> on Monday, December 11.\u00a0 The goal is to secure 60 attendees, which will keep the cost below $20 per person.\u00a0 The Board discussed having attendees pay in advance to ensure we reach a commitment level that is cost affordable.\u00a0 Please consider securing your reservation by making payment at the November 13, OCRA Membership meeting. \u00a0We will also make payment available via PayPal.\u00a0 We will discuss this topic more at the November 13 OCRA Membership meeting.<\/p>\n

Field Day<\/strong> results \u2013 still not known.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we should know by the November 13 meeting.\u00a0 Additionally, the Board discussed establishing a food committee for this year\u2019s Field Day.\u00a0 We need dedicated resources that are not operating the stations to secure the food and prepare the meals. This topic will be discussed more in early 2018.<\/p>\n

Bouvet DXpedition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Board discussed sponsoring the Bouvet DXpedition. \u00a0However, with the DFMA club already supporting the DXpedition, and with many members having dual membership in both OCRA and DFMA, the Board decided to encourage members of both groups to either support the DFMA sponsorship, or donate individually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OCRA Board Meeting Attendees: Dan (KR4UB), Mike (KK4BPH), Dave (W4SAR), Karen (KD4YJZ), Sherri (WB4OSU), Lad (W4ORD), and Keith (W1KES) Topics: Treasure Report: 73 membership dues are current and an appropriate reserve balance is in our accounts UNC Repeater Dan mentioned … Continue reading →<\/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-696","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\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}