Annual meeting of the Lakes Region Repeater Association was held November 3, 2019. It was held at the River’s Edge Grille and Tavern at Indian Mound golf course in Ossipee, New Hampshire. Shawn Marcotte KC1DNA was our acting president. He opened the meeting at 10 am.

The Technical Committee reported some exciting and gratifying accomplishments for the year 2019. Some of the accomplishments are as follows of our annual meeting:

• Our S-Com controller software was updated and more utilities were added.
• A new Yaesu DR2X repeater
• We tested the emergency back-up and added a drop-out AC relay. This alerts us to any AC power failures. We also installed the battery voltage monitor with programing. This is done with the 7330 S Com controller that can monitor battery voltage 24 hours a day in the case of a power failure.
• We can now announce the time every our and announce the club website on the repeater. The repeater announces the club net at 8pm on Tuesdays during the day.
• LRRA is now affiliated with (ARES) which is Amateur Radio Emergency Services. We can provide emergency power back-up or AC failures while providing crossover communications between ARES groups.
• We also asked the membership for opinions on repeater announcements, possible weather station, weather announcements signal report from repeater, and membership access for codes such as time, announcements, and scheduler.
• Also, Paul Zito N1REN has an APRS repeater that is located at our repeater site on Bennett Hill for anybody who wants to use it.

Some of the highlights of changes for LRRA are as follows:

• Our club had its first Ham Flea and Ve in the spring of 2019. And we held another in the fall of 2019.
• The club held a Field Day event at Constitution Park in Ossipee, New Hampshire.
• We bought a tent for Field Day and Near Fest.
• LRRA became a 501 (c) (3) March 2019
• We have club badges that members can order at our website