NEXT MONTH’S MEETING
July BOARD MEETING NOTES
July PROGRAM NOTES

When:	Wednesday, August 5, 2020
	6:30 PM Board Meeting  ZOOM Meeting
	7:00 PM Program  ZOOM Meeting
Program:	TBD

ZOOM VIDEO MEETING CALLED TO ORDER: 1830
MEMBERS PRESENT: Bill Harwell, Chuck Verdon, Bill Knepper, John Ellingson, Jim Pace and Kevin Rasku.

JUNE MINUTES: Jim Pace moved that the June board meeting minutes be approved as written. Bill Knepper seconded. Board approved.
FINANCIAL REPORT: Bank Balance: $7,558.79.

VE TESTING: Jim Pace announced that an Amateur Radio License test session is scheduled for Saturday, July 18 at Mountain View Baptist Church, 1201 Belmont Avenue, Centralia. Room setup will start at 1:00 PM and testing at 2:00 PM. Seven VE's, including Jim, have volunteered for the session.
SWAPMEET: John Ellingson said the Dairy Barn, where we normally hold the Swapmeet, is not available this year. It will continue to be rented out for RV storage. We were offered the long, narrow building next to the Dairy Barn. It was paved last year. John wants to check the size of that space and how parking could be handled in it. The mood of the board was to go ahead with the Swapmmet. Postscript: When John checked with the fairgrounds on Thursday, he was told we could not have the Swapmeet since we expect more than 50 attendees and Lewis County is still in stage 3 because of the up ticks in Covid-19 cases. With that news, the board agreed to cancel the Swapmeet for this year.
CLUB EQUIPMENT: Dick Morrison (K7KFM) has been storing a beam antenna for the club and needs to have it removed from his property. Bill will announce the need during the grneral meeting.
K7PG: Bill Harwell continues to pursue having Gary Litteer's (SK) K7PG call sign assigned to CVARS.

MEETING CLOSED: 1909.

The July 1, 2020 ZOOM Video General Meeting was called to order by Bill Harwell at 7:09 PM.

FIELD DAY 2020: Bill talked about his experience as a single operator during this year's Field Day. Centralia ARES had a group operating on Kennicott Drive.
SWAPMEET: CVARS plans to hold its annual Swapmeet July 25 at the fairgrounds. Postscript: We learned on Thursday, 7/2, that the fairgrounds was not available because of Covid-19 and we expect more than 50 attendees.
VE TESTING: Next amateur radio license testing session is Saturday, July 18, at 2:00 PM.
CVARS 8:00 SUNDAY NIGHT NET: We recruit net control stations during the net.
CLUB EQUIPMENT: Dick Morrison has been storing a tri-band(?) beam antenna and needs to have it moved.

PROGRAM: Stephen VanWambeck, N9VW, discussed grounding for amateur radio operators. His primary reference is "Motorola Standards and Guidelines for Communication Sites," chapter 4 - External Grounding.

• Motorola's "Standards and Guidelines for Communications Sites," also known as the "R56 Manual," dated 09/01/2005, is available athttps://s3.amazonaws.com/ngc-downloads/Motorola-Standards-and-Guidelines-for-Communication-Sites-R56-Manual.pdf
• Hager grounding products at https://www.harger.com/product-category/grounding-and-bonding
• Amateur Radio Supplies grounding and lightning protection products https://www.amateurradiosupplies.com/ham-radio-grounding-lightning-s/73.htm
• Georgia Copperhttps://www.gacopper.com/

Mike Payne provided this youTube link to a video about ground resistance testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Yg6G5VUSsWA

The meeting adjourned at 8:36 PM. There were 23 people attending.