2025 MARC Elections!

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Greetings all!

The Murray Amateur Radio Club (MARC) just held our elections as set forth in the Articles of Incorporation as well as the By-Laws.  The elections were held at Station 83, which is also Murray City's EOC location.

Tables were set up for us as well as a large screen TV on which we displayed the Zoom applications so the Zoom participants could be part of the elections.  Thank you Murray City Fire for helping us out in this regard!

We had many members join us for this event, both in person as well as via Zoom.  Jeff Moore, our club Secretary, conducted the actual election process.  The Nominations were had and by unanimous vote the following people became (okay, re-became) the officers of the club for the next two years:

PRESIDENT - Dan Lundwall

VICE-PRESIDENT - Jan Peterson

SECRETARY - Jeff Moore

TREASURER - Sherwood Preece

Once the club officers were selected, voted on, then approved by the membership of the club Jeff (now, the new club Secretary) announced that the club was looking for people to hold COORDINATOR positions, like the Event Coordinator, the Training Coordinator, Webmaster, Historian, Librarian and Net Control Coordinator.  The club members are discussing amongst themselves if they would like to volunteer for these positions.

Justin volunteered to help out with the Historian and Webmaster positions.  Russ volunteered again to be our Net Control Coordinator (A BIG THANK YOU RUSS!!) as well as help with the Webmaster position.  THANK YOU TWO FOR VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS TO THE CAUSE!

As President of the Murray Amateur Radio Club, I want to thank everyone who participated in the election process.  Next time it will run a bit different in order to more mimic the normal election process that is found in the political scene... but until then, and despite of how it was run on the 15th of May, 2025, I thought it went quite well.

MARC Standard Operating Guidelines – General Meeting – 20 MAR 2025

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Dan (N7XDL) briefs us on the standard operating guidelines document, available on the club web site here:  https://www.murrayarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MARC_SoG_March2024.pdf, which can also be found on the Radio and Other Resources page.

(I'll publish the slides when I get them from Dan.)

Also mentioned in this presentation:  Monthly Meeting - 16 March 2022 - Tactical Call Signs

Advanced Node Configuration – AREDN Deep Dive 3, part 1 – Advanced Topics – 13 MAR 2025

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Jan (KD7ZWV) brings up his node's console and walks through the UI, digging into various areas and exploring advanced options as well as typical configuration choices.  Unfortunately, we didn't get as far through the UI as planned and we will continue this next month.  There are no slides for this presentation as it was a "live demo" (gasp).  As usual, some things failed to work as expected in the live demo, particularly opening a tunnel from Jan's laptop to the node itself so we could look at some other configurations and follow links in the UI.  Since this didn't work, we were confined to operations directly on Jan's node.  Hopefully by next month he will have his tunnel working and will be able to demo more effectively what can be done with the UI.