Club Events – Contra Costa Repeater Association

CCRA invades CHRS

admin — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:57:10 +0000

On Sunday, March 27, 2011, 19 CCRA members toured the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) KRE broadcast facility and museum in Berkeley California. The tour was arranged by John Stuart, KM6QX after members at the February breakfast meeting thought it would be a fun to tour CHRS. The purpose of CHRS is to promote the restoration and preservation of early radio and broadcasting of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Western US. In short, CHRS is doing a fine job in fulfilling their mission. What follows are some of the pictures capturing our “invasion.”

9/18/10 Meeting

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:39:59 +0000

The meeting was well attended with a good mixture of new and old members.

Vicki, N6KLS, our Chairperson was unable to attend due to meeting conflicts so Steve, WA6HAM began the meeting. The Draft of the Mission and Vision Statement was discussed and approved. The next order of business was to review and discuss the Draft of the Requirements for Membership. This was also approved.

Steve provided an Income Statement for 2010 that show the expenditures on the repeater site phone bills and NARCC membership.

A question was asked about starting dues. It was brought up that we should also discuss upcoming projects such as the replacement of the Highland Peak antennas. This information then led to a discussion about how the group should be organized. Around this time Steve’s breakfast was getting cold and he asked Harry, K6HS if he would lead the discussion.

Harry gave a brief overview of different ways an organization could be structured. The group decided to form a committee to look into creating the Articles of Association and Bylaws of the CCRA. Volunteers were asked for and Vicki, N6KLS (in abstentia), Harry, K6HS and Mitch, W8DOD volunteered to be on the committee. It was hoped Trevor, WA6JAU would also be part of the group. Steve, WA6HAM was asked to participate and decided it would be best for the process to act in an advisory role. Some of the issues to be reviewed by the committee are:

• Who does the CCRA belong to? The formation of an unincorporated association.
• Types of officers and committees to be set into place.
• Technical committee: membership requirements and responsibilities.
• Proper code of conduct for members.
• Contingency plan for when/if the CCRA were ever disassembled.

It was decided that collection of dues will be postponed and commence after the work of the committee is completed. As of this posting, the committee has already begun their work and is actively reviewing a draft Articles of Association and Bylaws. Their progress report will be due at the next breakfast scheduled for October 23rd.

Gallery below.

CCRA Breakfast May 22nd!!!

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:23:14 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of Trevor, WA6JAU and Mitchell, W8DOD, the CCRA will have its first group breakfast at Legends & Heroes Sports Bar at 9 AM on May 22nd. Legends is located at at the Diablo Creek Golf Course at 4050 Port Chicago Highway in North Concord.

Many years ago the CCRA used to meet at Legends for our monthly breakfast. It seems somewhat appropriate to have our first reorganization kickoff meeting at a place familiar to many of our long time members.

This meeting will give many of the users of the CCRA repeaters the opportunity to meet for the first time and place faces with names and callsigns. WA6HAM will lead a discussion on how to reorganize the CCRA. We will discuss our group mission and vision of where we, the CCRA, will go in the future.

This is a wonderful opportunity for new and old repeater users to help set the new course for the CCRA. I hope to see all of you there!

73…Steve, WA6HAM