Shuswap Amateur Radio Club Minutes

Minutes of the Monthly Meeting: February 12, 2026

Location: Uptown SASCU – 1120 – 25^th St. NE

Present: Celia Harris, Wayne Harris, Robin Hickman, Al Marr, Peter Jugovic, Gary Stortz, Dave Hadley, Phil Baker, Richard Ginger, Jim Hilland, Simon Gray, Jack Valgardson, Aiden Haglund

1. Call to Order: 1900 hours, Phil in the Chair
2. Introductions – round table
3. Adoption of the Agenda: M: Gary S: Al                                       CARRIED
4. Adoption of the November 13th Minutes: M: Dave S: Rick                                   CARRIED
5. Financial Report: Treasurer – Robin (for months of November, December, January)

Regular Account: $3632.68                                              Gaming Account: $9.72

Income: $0.99 Interest                                                       Income: Nil

$120.00 M’ship dues                                          Expenses: Nil

Expenses:

GoDaddy Web Hosting                                      $214.07

GoDaddy phone calls/Xmas lunch                  $51.67 – personal expenses for Robin

RAC Insurance                                                    $421.10

Domain Renewals                                               $116.76 – for three years

Positive SSL Certificate                                      $45.87

Total Expenses:                                                  $849.47

M: Robin  S: Celila  , that the report be                                                            ADOPTED

6. Web Site: Robin

– Wordfence renewal (program that protects wordpress website) to cost $149.00US.  Changed to All in One Security (AIOS) which is a free program for the basic version

– SSL certificate renewed

– Robin’s registered examiner status renewed until 2029

7. Repeater Reports: all repeaters working fine

7.1 VE7RNH – 146.760- :

7.2 VE7AHR – 147.140+: some voltage alerts

7.3 VE7QMR – 145.470-: solar panels clear and charging batteries again

7.4 VE7RSA – 147.020+:

 

8. Club Correspondence:

8.1Assessment notices for RNH and AHR – taxable value NIL

8.2 Thank you poster from the Nordic Society for SARC’s assistance in the January Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet

9. New and Unfinished Business:

9.1 Nominating Committee- Gary to chair

9.2 Fee Increase –

M: Celia  S:Robin , that the membership fee NOT be increased                 CARRIED

9.3  Facebook Page –

M: Peter S:Aiden , that SARC have a Facebook group account                  DEFEATED

9.4 Logo – Gary

– the meeting wanted a couple of modifications made.  Gary will meet with Otto to make further tweaks to the logo

9.5 Robin to chair a subcommittee to perform checks on the coverage of our repeater system

-Dave, Celia, Jim and Peter volunteered to be on this committee

10. Information Only Items:

10.1Emergency Radio Committee – Peter

– have held two meetings and one emergency communications test

– Cathy Semchuk from Emergency Support Services (ESS) has asked Peter to make a presentation, to the ESS group, on the Club’s purpose and activities

10.2 Certificate of insurance received from RAC – Robin

11. Adjournment: 20:13 hours, Celia

 

Next Meeting: March 12, 2026