As required by our constitution,  the 2021 Annual Meeting and Biennial Election of Officers was held on Saturday Oct 23rd at the Town Hall in Center Ossipee, NH.  Over twenty members and guests attended and enjoyed a wonderful dinner catered by our very own Jason/KB1RFS (who was also celebrating a birthday that day) and his wife Nikki.

The current slate of officers ran unopposed in the election and were re-elected via a unanimous voice vote. 

LRRA BUSINESS MEETING

1-25-19

 Lakes Region Repeater Association held a business meeting at Hart’s Turkey Farm in Meredith, New Hampshire. We had 26 people in attendance and the food was excellent. Our secretary Sarah Silk read the Minutes of 11-13-18. With a motion from Rick Zach, K1RJZ, and a second from Sandy Percy, W1SND, the Minutes were accepted and approved as written.

The Treasurer’s Report was not presented, the Treasurer Jane Greer, W2REX was unable to make it due to bad weather.

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

LRRA ANNUAL MEETING
1-17-2016

We had our annual meeting with a delicious brunch at the Wolfeboro Community Center. There were 46 people in attendance and we gave a moment of remembrance for silent keys: Dean Halpin, K1ERO; Louise Jeffrey, N1HQD and Joe Fermano, W1RRN. Please visit our Silent Key site.

Dan Morgan, W1WU, President, noted the Lakes Region Repeater Association had started in the 1970’s and he mentioned that the LRRA repeater was the first in the nation to incorporate the courtesy tones. . Dan noted that early 1995 or 96 Frank had offered his site for the repeater free to the club.

Bob reviewed the stats for Field Day: 164th of 2.720 all classes; 33rd of 384 2A class nationwide; 9th of 140 classes New England; 3rd of 26 2A class New England. It was a very good effort for the LRRA.

Some of the annual events that were coming up and talked about were the Smith River Canoe Race for the Lion’s Club , Field Day – end of June which would be located at Dan Morgan’s field on Pleasant Valley Rd, and July 4^th Parade for the VFW. LRRA’s job was to position parade entrants and report on any emergencies.

We had nomination for new officers and Dan was given a plaque in recognition of his many years as LRRA President as well as an Amaryllis bulb memento to Mary Morgan for her years of support.

Our new officers were Bob Carollo, NY1H, President; Bob Ness, KB1DLX, Vice-President; Clayton Ferry, N1VAU, Treasurer; Sarah Silk, Secretary; Tom Bates, AA1NZ, Webmaster.

Bob Carollo, as new President, said that LRRA needed an historian to keep track of our history and that dues can now be paid electronically and ARRL insurance is available. He also announced that there is a large NearFest presence with parking passes. He also wants LRRA Field Day to reach the goal of being first in New England