Minutes: 2026 10 08

Shuswap Amateur Radio Club Minutes

Minutes of the Monthly Meeting: October 8, 2026

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

Present: Peter Rizzi, Dave Hadley, Robin Hickman, Peter Jugovic, Al Marr, Steve Poole, Jim Hilland, Wayne Harris, Celia Harris

  1. Call to Order: 1900 hours, Celia in the Chair
  2. Introductions – round table
  3. Adoption of the Agenda: M: Wayne      S: Steve                 CARRIED
  4. Adoption of the September 10th Minutes: M: Dave     S: Robin                                                                                                                              CARRIED
  5. Financial Report: Treasurer

Regular Account: $3634.59                              Gaming Account: $9.72

Income: $0.28 Interest                                       Income: Nil

Expenses: $420.36                                              Expenses: Nil

  • Reimbursement to Gary Stortz for balance owing to Spectrum Signs

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

  1. Web Site: various plugins require constant updating. A major update to the WordPress software is required and will happen when Robin has some time to do that.
  2. Repeater Reports: all repeaters appear to be working fine.

7.1 VE7RNH – 146.760- : see report below

7.2 VE7AHR – 147.140+:

7.3 VE7QMR –145.470-: On a recent service trip to Queest, Jack and Cory from Vella Radio Links were provided with an Icom IC-H16 to swap into the APRS System but it didn’t work with the existing TNC.  The Yaesu that had been in use since 2011 was returned to service.  Robin modified the interface cable to work with the Icom and on Wednesday, October 7, Robin and Hans and went up and reinstalled it.   The APRS telemetry is now working fine and the Icom will restart properly after a low Voltage event which wasn’t the case with the Yaesu.

7.4 VE7RSA – 147.020+:

  1. Club Correspondence:

8.1 Email from Heritage Village re: Spooktacular participation

8.2 Email to Mareike Klem thanking her for the donation of two table top banner cases

8.3 Letter to Spectrum Sign Works thanking them for the reduction in the price of our banner for allowing   them to put their logo at the bottom

 

 

 

  1. New and Unfinished Business:

9.1Spooktacular:

M:Jim    S: Peter J.   that we participate in Spooktacular again this year                                                                                                                         CARRIED

9.2 Club Logo modifications:

M: Gary (by email)             S: Steve , that the embroidery supplier to use white in place of black where required.                                                 CARRIED

Note: this substitution is to allow change when a colour will not show our Club logo clearly on a chosen background colour.  The three copy righted colours are Red, White and Black.

  1. Information Only Items:

10.1- Meeting with Nordic Club: Robin – Robin, Celia and Gary met with Bill Prytula of the Nordic Club on Monday, October 5th.  Concerns the Nordic Club had regarding any interference with their 2 meter radio communications were allayed.  Their Executive will be meeting shortly and will decide on allowing us to further pursue the viability of establishing a repeater on the site

10.2 – RNH repairs.  Peter R. – Peter, son Tony and Phil have repaired the damaged drain pipe from the roof.  A rubber sleeve was required to connect the roof drain to the drainpipe.  The exterior drainpipe was also shortened so that it could no longer be reached from the ground.

The roof was sealed with tar and damage done to the roof by the solar panel stand was also sealed.

10.3- Jim – will be representing our Club when he assists with communications at the Pacific Forest Rally (car rally) in Merritt on October 16th and 17th.

  1. Adjournment: 2000 hours, Robin

Next Meeting: November 12, 2026