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RMRA Board Meeting – April 19, 2026
April 19 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
RMRA Monthly Board Meeting Agenda
Date/Time: 4/19/2026 6:00 PM
Location: Jitsi Online Meeting
Test Primary Meeting: https://meet.rmra.club/RMRABoardMeeting
Backup Meeting: https://meet.jit.si/RMRABoardmeeting
Call meeting to order – KC9LFG
Secretary Report – KD9BFP
- March Meeting Minutes
Treasurer Report – KC9NW
- March Report
- New members and renewals
Old Business
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- American Tower / Coloma Tower – Lease Formalization and Utilities
- American Tower’s proposed $0 collocation lease for the Coloma tower site, including reimbursement of electricity costs, and to authorize club officers to complete required applications and documentation with American Tower’s onboarding and utility reimbursement process.
- Progress Update
- American Tower / Coloma Tower – Lease Formalization and Utilities
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- 2026 Projects
- Complete 6m repeater upgrades
- Status Update
- Backup Internet Link
- 2027 Hamfest
- Present work that has been done so far
- Choice of locations
- Date/Times
- Overall costs
- Present work that has been done so far
- Meshtastic
- Complete 6m repeater upgrades
- 2026 Projects
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- Dean’s Experimentation with CradlePoint
- Contingency & Disaster Recovery Plan
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- Discussion in May
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- New Business
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- Small tower at Rib Mountain after ice storm
- Take down/replace damage HF antenna?
- Question of remaining tower section use
- Small tower at Rib Mountain after ice storm
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Recap & Update of Systems
- Rib Mountain System Activity
- 146.820 Linked
- Discuss Noise again
- New Repeater – Tait
- Picking up from Emil on 4/21/2026
- Weather nets discussion
- 444.300 AllStar
- Some fixes were done to automation of Skywarn Plus
- 146.730 Fusion
- 443.000 DMR
- D-Star Stack
- 53.450 6 Meter
- (See old business)
- Server/Internet/Wireless Link
- 146.820 Linked
- Brighton System Activity
- 145.410 Linked
- Coloma System Activity
- 146.700
- Rich visit and meter readings
- Antenna health discussion
- 442.675
- 146.700
- Website/Social Media/RMRA Store
- Added our own Jitsi server to use for online meetings
- Testing this meeting with the new server
- Update on messages we got from our webform
- Brian Hamilton KB9WWV – Tower climber question
- Caleb Freakes KD9PEV – C4FM question
- Added our own Jitsi server to use for online meetings
Board Member Roundtable
- KC9WSC
- KC9NW
- KD9BFP
- W9WRX
- KC9LFG
Member Roundtable
Close Meeting – David Peters – KC9LFG