Greater Norwalk Amateur Radio Club (GNARC)
Meeting Minutes 9/18/2025
Held at the Westport Public Library
Present: W1SMS (Vice President), N1DPD (Treasurer), AI1V (recording), K1RF, KB1HVC, KC1WSE
By internet: KC1FB, W1PPL
Meeting called to order at 7:30 pm
Deferred approval of the minutes of the previous meeting due to lack of people.
Treasury: Good financial shape. Summer picnic cost $699. We had budgeted $700. Spent $95 on a wheel lock for the trailer since it is no longer being stored at the fire station.
We have 65 current members.
Website: Nothing to report.
Repeaters: W1SMS has been busy and has not made a lot of progress on the hospital repeater. However, he has been working on getting an MOU with the hospital to make sure we are covered there.
NV1P regularly runs the Wednesday night ragchew net and would love to get more people on the net. Details are on our website at http://gnarc.org/category/nets/
AA1XV is taking steps to make sure we are properly represented in the CSMA. We need to update the repeater trustees to active local members, which is a requirement for CSMA. In fact, CSMA requires that any trustees are officers of the club.
Lighthouses On The Air: Three members went out to Sheffield Island for a LOTA activation. It went well.
Further discussed issues around implementing a remote station at W1SMS’s site. If you are a club member and think you would be interested in operating via a remote station at his site, please contact W1SMS via our email reflector.
W1SMS is also interested in knowing if anyone would be interested in operating HF contacts from his location in the Danbury area. Again, if you are interested, contact W1SMS via our email reflector.
New business:
We received some equipment from an elderly ham. N1DLD has photos. Is anyone interested in taking the equipment to a local hamfest – especially the Nutmeg hamfest coming up in October?
Next meeting:
The next meeting is expected to be October 8 at the Westport Public Library. Informal gathering at 7pm, formal meeting to start at 7:30 pm.
Meeting adjourned at 8:25 pm.
