Annual General Meeting

LEICESTER RADIO SOCIETY

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on Monday 28th January, 1980

Committee Members present:

Including the committee, there were 25 paid-up members present. Bob G8SZV passed on apologies from G3MYI for his absence. Tony G4JDI passed on the Chairman's apologies for his late arrival and so opened the meeting at 2010 GMT.

The Secretary then read the minutes of the previous AGM and these were proposed by Dan G3UQX and seconded by John G4EPA as a true record of the proceedings.

Chairman's Report

The Chairman, having arrived , apologised for his unavoidable lateness and read his report.

Firstly he noted that the Club had done very well in the 1979 contests coming 21st in A.F.S. (entered by G2ERT, G4CWY, G3PBC, G4GVC, G3HYH and G3ZJS), 10th in HF Field Day and 7th in VHF Field Day. He said that the joint effort with the Melton Club in the VHF event had proved very successful and should be repeated if possible

this year. The SSB Field Day results were not yet available. In general it seemed the contests had been better organised this year.

Other notable events were the DF Hunt on December 16th organised by G4EPA and won by G3TQF which proved very popular and was well attended as was the visit in September to the Police Communications Centre at Enderby.

Treasurer's Report

The Treasurer reported that there were now 40 paid-up members and reminded the meeting that only those members may vote in the proceedings.

Copies of the Balance Sheet were circulated and the Treasurer made the following comments:

The balance for the year was £546.15 which was mainly due to money raised from the sale of equipment provided by Warren G5ZJS at the Club and also at the Drayton Manor Rally. Tony also noted that much of that sold at Drayton was from the back of a van rather than from the hired stall inside the marquee.

Rates and Electricity were up on last year, but thanks to Melvyn so were tea sales. The amount collected from subscriptions and tea sales almost covered outgoings so that as long as members continued to provide good junk for sale and the ARRA continued to donate a sum for help at the Granby Halls Show, the club could be regarded as solvent. The Treasurer therefore did not think it was necessary to raise subscriptions.

Bob G8SZW proposed and Dave G8OBP seconded that the report be accepted. The meeting unanimously agreed

Election of Officers and Committee Members

G8JGP was proposed by Tony G4JDI and seconded by Dan G3UQX for the office of Chairman

G4JDI was proposed by John G4EPA and seconded by Tony G4CWY for the office of Treasurer

G4GVC was proposed by Bob G8SZV and seconded by Geoff G3TQF for the office of Secretary.

There being no other nominations, these proposals were put to the vote by a show of hands and were passed unanimously by the meeting.

Election of Committee Members

A secret ballot of the following proposed members resulted as follows:

Thus G8OBP, G3PBC, G4CWY, G3TQF, G4EPA and G4JAI were elected to the committee for 198O

Any other Business

The Chairman proposed a vote of thanks to the past committee for their work in 1979.

Kate G4JAI proposed a vote of thanks to Cliff G3PBC and Tony G4CWY for their topband slow morse transmissions each Sunday and also their Monday evening morse sessions, this was endorsed by the meeting.

The Chairman also proposed a vote of thanks to Melvyn for his dedication to making tea in 1979.

The meeting then briefly adjourned for tea and there then followed a general discussion to decide the clubs activities for the coming year.

Cliff G3PBC said that we had done well in contests during the year and should keep up the activity particularly by entering more VHF contests, He also suggested two separate entries from the club for HF NFD.

It was generally felt that the lectures had been interesting and successful and suggestions were made for lectures on computing and CW operating.

Ian G8OGJ felt that the club should organise a building project and Bob G8SZW suggested a 10GHz receiver so we could monitor the GB3LEX beacon.

John GlEPA suggested another DF hunt later in the year which would culminate in a club picnic.

There being no other business the meeting closed at 21.40.