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Palestine/Anderson County Amateur Radio Club – K5PAL

www.pacarc.org P.O. Box 1376, Palestine, TX 75802 K5PAL@arrl.net

MEETING MINUTES

The regular monthly meeting of the PALESTINE/ANDERSON COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB - K5PAL was called to order at 7:00pm Tuesday, June 3^rd 2025, by President, Charlie McReynolds, W5IAK. This was not a dinner meeting. Bart McReynolds, KE5WEG, led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance. There were twelve (12) members and two (2) guest(s), for a total of fourteen (14) persons present.

The Minutes and Treasurers Reports were posted from the last monthly meeting. The current Treasury Balance is $3108.02

There were no application(s) for membership.

NET CONTROL:

July 7^th Ken Vickery, KI5JRY

July 14^th Charles McReynolds, W5IAK

July 21^st Jeff Montgomery, WB4WXD

July28^th Louie Downey, AI4SW

Monthly Speakers: Ken Vickery, KI5JRY, gave a presentation on his new FTM-150RASP radio and all it’s great features. There is plenty of audio and he reports the new noise reduction works very well.

Activity Reports:

Tim Hasselbach, K9ZZK, reported speaking to Moscow on 20M SSB and to Chile using the gray line.

Kenny Burrow, NK5L and Louie Downey. AI4SW, reported on their project to contact the ISS in three phases using APRS and other modes. Kenny passed out their project packet.

Ken Vickery, KI5JRY, is experimenting with, and using new logging software by the World Radio League.

Don Myers, W5WST, reported his setting up a POTA station at the newly listed Neches Wildlife Refuge. Conditions dropped because of the solar storm just as he was getting set up and started. He will return.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

ARES: Jeff Montgomery, WB4WXD, reported on the weather events we have had lately and to keep an eye to the weather. He also discussed the RAC F&G exercise held May 17, 2025 and the after action report. Our 147.140 machine was connected and active during the drill to test auxiliary communications for hospitals in the RACs. He also reported on the TDEM and RACES aerial repeater experimentation which flew a repeater from Huntsville to Tyler , across us to Waco and beck to Huntsville . The after action reported 72 unique contacts through the repeater.

VE: Jeff Montgomery, WB4WXD reported no VE sessions this month

BUILDING MAINTENANCE: Charlie McReynolds, W5IAK, reported mowing the lawn Monday before the meeting.

FIELD DAY: Ken Vickery, KI5JRY, reported ARRL summer Field Day is coming up June 28^th and 29^th and will be held at Dogwood Park this year. The EMC may be occupied that Saturday, but other elected officials will be invited to attend. The setup will start around 10-11am and the event kicks off at 1pm local time. We will again run 2A NTX and there will be plenty of radios to use. Also bring your own equipment to use too.

TUESDAY PROJECT NIGHT: Project Night meetings are held on the 2^nd and 4^th Tuesdays of each month. No meetings this month.

OLD BUSINESS: Picnic-In-The-Park, (PITP), was May 25^th with Cindy and Jeff Montgomery attending. The Board meeting was held on June 1^st, 1:30pm, at Whataburger with Charlie, Ken and Jeff in attendance. The next PITP and Board meeting will be June 29^th, and will be at Whataburger. This is also the second day of ARRL Field Day. Elections for the 2025 – 2026 officers were held and the current officers were reinstalled for the next year. Dues for the upcoming year are currently due and will be past due in July. The annual club audit was held 10am May 17^th at the clubhouse. It took about an hour and thanks to Ronny Jenkins, KI5WXC, Louie Downey, AI4SW and Kenny Burrow, NK5L for assisting. Charlie McReynolds and Jeff Montgomery attended as officers. The inventory was complete and accepted. Inventory items will be looked at to see if they still need to be on the inventory list in the future.

NEW BUSINESS: July 4^th will be on a Friday after the club meeting the previous Tuesday, which will be a dinner meeting. Traditionally the club has been opened for members to park and keep cool before watching the fireworks down the street. As the City has not yet announced their plans, opening the club will be discussed at the July meeting.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The club library is open and available for all members to use the materials. Just let WB4WXD know what you have borrowed and when you return it.

Radio Fiesta, June 6^th and 7^th at the Schertz Civic Center in San Antonio . There was a price reduction noted

Dallas Ham Expo June 7^th, 9am to 6pm, at the Music City Mall in Lewisville

Club patches are available at $3.00 each.

The next Meeting will be on July 1^st, and this will be a dinner meeting. Louie Downey, AI4SW, made a motion to adjourn and Larry Davis, KB5JHW, seconded it.

Meeting adjourned at 7:44 pm.

Jeff Montgomery, WB4WXD

Secretary/Treasurer 2024-2025

PACARC

06/6/2025