Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:35:42 -0600
To: "ARES-Champaign County":;
From: Steve Hilberg
Subject: ARES of Champaign County QST - January 2003

The annual meeting of ARES of Champaign County was held Wednesday,
January 8, 2002 at the Fire Service Institute.  Here are important
notes from that meeting and other news.

ATTENDING
N9XDC, N9GPA, N9XDH, N9SYV, KB9TEV, KB9ZZW, K9CFD, KC9AZX, KB9KAI,
WB9HFK, KB9LCJ, W9ADS, KB9ZZQ, W9MOO

ANNUAL MEETING BUSINESS
Business conducted the annual meeting of ARES was as follows:

Officers and directors for 2003
President/EC:	Steve Hilberg, N9XDC
Secretary:		Larry Kearns, N9XDH
Treasurer:		Mark Rayburn, KB9KAI
Board Members:	Andrew Wadsworth, W9ADS (term expires in 2004)
			Jon Burroughs, KB9ZZW (term expires in 2005)
			Bill Keller, Champaign County ESDA - outside director
			Outside director #2 - vacant

The treasurer, Mark Rayburn, reported that our account balance is $891.02

A motion was made, seconded, and approved to waive any dues for 2003.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY NET CONTROL STATIONS

Jan. 14	N9SYV
Jan. 21	W9ADS
Jan. 28	KB9KAI
Feb. 4	K9CFD
Feb. 11	to be assigned
Feb. 18	KB9LCJ
Feb.  25	N9XDH
	
Remember to turn in your check-in sheets at the next monthly meeting.


DOCUMENTS  AVAILABLE ON WEB SITE
There has been some confusion on how to download the net script,
check-in sheet, and other documents available on our web site,
www.wa9res.org. In order to access the documents, you must type in
the full URL including the name of the document file - there is no
index of documents at this time.  For example, to download the net
check-in form, you must type in

www.wa9res.org/documents/filename


[list deleted...]

For the time being there is no way to list a directory of files,
so keep this information handy.

CENTRAL ILLINOIS SEVERE WEATHER SEMINAR

The annual Central Illinois Severe Weather Seminar will be held
Saturday, March 8 in Bloomington.  As I mentioned in my email
earlier, to save time I am asking each of you that wish to attend
to complete the registration form and mail it and your registration
fee directly in to Woodford County ESDA . Mailing info is on the
form.

The registration fee is $10 and includes seminar materials, t-shirt,
lunch, and breaks.  The registration form can be downloaded from
the NWS Lincoln web site. The URL for seminar information is:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/2003bmiseminar.htm

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY SPOTTER TRAINING

We have not received a date for the NWS Spotter Training for
Champaign County, but I will pass it along as soon as I do. A
session is scheduled in Piatt County for March 5th, 6:30 pm at a
location to be determined.  For more info click on the "Spotter
Talks" link on the NWS-Lincoln home page.

AMERICAN RED CROSS TRAINING

The ARC training that was announced in December filled up to capacity
very quickly. We will try and set up some related training sometime
this spring.

STATE ARES HF NET

The Illinois Section ARES Net is the first and third Sundays of
the month at 1630 CT. The frequency is 3905.0 kHz +/- QRM.  Following
the state net, the District EC, Pat Stowell, N9PN, runs the Central
Illinois net at 1700 CT on the same frequency.  Since I do not have
access to HF at the time, I would like to have   our members with
HF to monitor and perhaps check-in to these nets. Please let me
know if you are willing and able to do this on occasion.

NEXT MEETING
The next ARES meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 5, 2003
7:00 p.m. at the FSI.


73

-Steve-

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