Volusia County

The meeting will begin August 25th, Tuesday night at 6pm (not 7pm) as requested by EOC personnel who need to be able to go home earlier. They are on volunteer time as well so we need to respect their family time as they accommodate our time. Late comers will have to call my cell for entry access.

We need to focus on ending the meeting in a timely manner as the start time really is not the issue but the time they can close the EOC and go home is the important point to the time change. We can vacate the EOC Operations Room. After the meeting we are welcome to hang around outside in the parking lot to chit-chat as long as we want.  We are ham-ers. We like to talk. They are county employees. They like to go home after a long day.

Meeting agenda:

Certificates will be awarded to known AuxComm participants.

Doug Lynch

Reed Krem

Charlie Blackburn

Gerard Hickey

Tony McGhee

Jeff Mathews

Let's summarize and finalize the after-report for the EmComm exercise. Most of the report was summitted on the Groups.io BBS where it was pretty thoroughly covered. Let's discuss any further ideas or wishes, time permitting. Please do not berate the county or it's employees with any negative opinions verbally or publicly (unless they ask). We are there to help them to the best of our ability. We will submit our opinions to them about the repeater issues through proper closed channels. The county radio maintenance team think the repeater works fine. It is not our job to question their authority or insult their workmanship.  We don't know the whole story. Our plan is to use K4BV repeater as a second back up. We all know that. We have been doing that for many months now for ARES Net. DBARA club has graciously allowed us that luxury. Gary has publicly stated that we can use the repeater for Sunday Net and official Skywarn activities. They would appreciate {requirement) verbal or written requests for any other official activities such as planned EmComm Exercises. As always, emergency communications are always allowed without restriction only to the extent of those emergencies, but exercises are not emergencies. DBARA Club has no affiliation or debt of gratitude to Volusia County Government. Please respect their choice to help us ARES and the general public with their personal property. Many of the DBARA club members volunteer to participate in our activities as well. We owe them a debt of gratitude. If we become an inconvenience to them they may not be so kind. Until the KV4EOC repeater is upgraded or officially decommissioned we can leave it on the list but we know it does not cover all of Volusia County.

We should also change the ARES net time as it interferes with the DBARA Club SSTV Net on the 330 repeater. Since VC Traffic Net does not currently use the 6:30 time slot on Sunday we should switch to that time at least for now.  We can discuss that and formally agree on this action as a group at the meeting.

Brian Fronek will announce the the "proposed" antenna build project and scheduling coordination if he can make it to the meeting. I know he works so time is a problem for him, he may be late. That's ok.

We're all encouraged to be leaders and followers.

Sincerely,

Jim KO4KUS

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