Emergency Preparedness Meeting
Oct 31, 2020
The meeting was called to order at 8:30 AM with the following members present: K4DGG/Doug, WA9OXB/John, W4NWD/Dick, N2MEO/Dan, N1CDO/Bill, KM4WMC/Dennis, N2VSN/Rick
- Work continues to prepare the club room to work with 12V power on rechargable batteries. W4NWD/Dick
- Dick/W4NWD says work continues to get clubroom resources on 12v power
- Bill/N1CDO has a switch for the ICOM system that will let it use the 12V system.
- The Kenwood system will require an inverter to run the modems.
- Inverters might be required for computers and monitors. Bill/N1CDO will investigate and report on findings.
- Dick/W4NWD will follow up with Greg/NA2N about batteries and UPS units that might be available to the club.
- Dick/N4NWD will continue to work on EPC checklist and coordinate efforts with Bill/N1CDO to get county levels intergrated into our checklist to limit the potential for confusion.
- Dick/NW4NWD wants to start up a scheduled effort for maintenance antennas may be on a one day per week, probably Friday morning. He will bring this up at the next members’ meeting.
- We talked about DRS net continutity over the winter months. There was consensus the net should be continued but we need to make an effort to get the listening stations involved.
- Bill/N1CDO is working on a solution for a VHF/UHF store and forward station to support Winlink
The next EPC meeting will be on Saturday, November 28, 2020
Respectully submitted,
Doug/K4DGG
