Central Wyoming Amateur Radio Club

Meeting Minutes

Date                : Saturday, September 26, 2026

Time                : 10:00 AM        

Location        : 307 Makerspace, Main St., Riverton        

Attendees        :

Hannes Stueckler

Tara Stueckler

Charles Burd

Mark Harris

Ralph Allen

David Maulik

Eli Ready

Paul McTee

Michael Shelley

Steve Ng

Caleb Brown

Liam Solt

Christopher Good

Tony Simmers

Secretary:        

1. Roll call, do we have a Quorum?

        Yes

President:        

        1. Confirm Quorum

2. Introduce Officers and Committee Leaders

3. Contact secretary for any club documentation. Every book is open for your

Review.

4. Elections in November. Nominations in October Meeting

a. President - Term Limit

b. Vice President

c. Treasurer

d. Secretary

5. Turkey Raffle

Treasurer:        

        1. Account Status

                $2314.14

                        $787 in deposits

2. Challenge for Charities Income

        $498.52

3. HamCon Sales Income

        $289.25

News and Updates:

        1. Summer Activities:

a. HamCon (Hannes)

b. Wyo 131 (Steve)

i. Special thanks to the WyAME club.

        Thanks to Mark & Caleb- City park

        Eli & Michael- Hoodoos

        Paul & Ralph- Atlantic City

        David- Hwy 287

        Tara & Hannes- Louis Lake

        Steve- SAG wagon

        Charles- Remote repeater

                         Volunteer meeting, training exercise was amazing & helped to teach the proper

   Passing of traffic.  Potential for reading the race manual for future races.

c. Tower Trailer (Hannes)

Eli was totally AWESOME!!! A winch has been purchased, everything all lines up. Ralph has donated cable. Tony is working on getting it up & working, will start 9/27. David has procured a pintle hitch & hazard markers. Need to weigh it after it has been stripped down, looking to get a permanent trailer plate for it.        

2. Repeater Committee:

a. Griffy Hill Site Progress (Charles/Mark)

i. Lease Agreement Approved

ii. The plan

We have liability insurance, agreement needs to be signed, Kyle has a copy of the insurance. Keys needed for the gate & building. There are solar panels on the building, heating & cooling may be an issue. We still need to see about property removal, allowing other to remove equipment up to a certain date.

Christopher Good- potential member is good with towers.

b. Dana Site Decommissioning 

        Dana will not put in a meter.

c. Portable Repeater Issues.

        3 days of testing, no problems. Weak signal might have been the issue.  Some work to do, but we are narrowing down the issue.

3. T-Shirts (David)

        Awesome T-shirts. David still has 3 more ready to go, can add call signs.

        Possible name tags &vinyl or magnetic stickers. Looking for potential help.

.                Sticker ideas

Floor open for motions and discussion.

        Discussion about website & hosting. (which came out of a discussion regarding selling t-shirts)

        Ghost Towns on the Air-October 3st, our call sign is: W7J, Atlantic City -private property, South Pass- needs a state permit unless at cemetery, Jeffrey City- has a lot of RF interference, Shoshoni- City park. All modes allowed.1800 to 0600(Noon to midnight). Ralph taking lead, site & frequency coordination. 851-1328, text Ralph. Motion passed to have this as a club activity.

        Mike upgraded his license to General. Congratulations.

Education

        Reliability

                The first rule of emergency communication is: have a radio!

                What do you need to be ready & reliable? If you aren’t one you aren’t the other. Take care of your personal life so you can be reliable to others.

What would you like to learn?

        Building a UHF antenna

        ARES-

        Propagation

        Reticulum

        Arden

        APRS

        Tabletop exercises-Steve

        DX spotting

        Fox hunt

        Radio RF orienteering

        Deployment of field antennae

Final note from the President:  This is such a cool Club!