| A. | Opening | ||
| 1. | Call to order | ||
| The meeting was called to order by President Middlemiss at 5:05 PM. | |||
| 2. | Attendance | ||
| Board members present: Blazek, Greene, Longo, Manos, Middlemiss | |||
| Board members absent: Ash, Cole | |||
| 3. | Approval of minutes | ||
| The minutes of the May meeting as posted to the Web site would have been approved had anyone been able to remember when the last official meeting was held. | |||
| 4. | Treasurer's report | ||
| Treasurer Blazek presented a report for the month of August. The expenses outweighed the income by nearly $4000.00 for the month primarily due to a $3000 to be paid for replacement of the B Mountain airconditioning units, property taxes, and costs to ship two translators to the factory for rechanneling. There is currently about $35,000 in the bank. | |||
| 5. | Correspondence | ||
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The requested printouts from the Kern County tax assessor were
received.
These are to be reviewed for accuracy and to determine if the
property taxes can be reduced.
Secretary Greene reported having received two or three email inquiries via the Web site and having responded to them on behalf of TVB. The messages were of the nature of specific inquiries about TVB services' status. Member Longo mentioned having to get organized for Maturango Junction Days, October 17. | |||
| 6. | Announcements | ||
| B. | Committee reports | ||
| 1. | Standing committees | ||
| b. | Operations | ||
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Reports on trips to the facilities have been emailed to the
board members at the time of the trips.
The new aircondtioning units installed in the B Mountain building by Campbell Heating & Air Conditioning in early June and appear to be working properly. Some additional controls were needed and were a long time being received by Campbell. These additional controls have supposedly been recently installed but confirmation of this from Campbell has not been obtained. In the meantime, the check for payment to Campbell is sitting on Secretary Greene's desk awaiting confirmation of completion. Roof repairs to the B Mountain building have been requested of China Lake, but no information as to the status of the request has been forthcoming from Public Works. Public Works did repair the door latch mechanism on the B Mountain building after members Blazek and Greene mucked up things while trying to get the latch to work more smoothly. Work is in progress but not having much success so far on the channel 11/67 Emcee 10 W. translator. So far, all the Scala preamps have been removed from the antenna circuit and a Radio Shack preamp installed in the platform cabinet so as to get an input signal to the translator. Diagnosis of the translator's operations has found the receiver section to be working properly, but the upconvertor is not. The exact nature of the problem(s) in the upconvertor is unclear at this time, but appear to involve the amplifier after the frequency multiplier and prior to the mixer. In response to a query from member Greene, the channel 11/67 100 W. translator may or may not be usable. Numerous problems were encountered by former member Rogers in keeping the translator working, so he removed it from service. The 64/49 translator (KHIZ) is reportedly not working at this time and the 23/51 translator (KERO) is reportedly intermittent. The former is known to have a bad internal connection somewhere which can be (temporarily) corrected by banging on the cabinet. The subject of continued operation of the KMZT translator was raised by member Greene. It was agreed by those present that termination of the service is an operational question and does not require board approval. It is quite likely that the translator will be turned off the next time someone makes a trip to Laurel Mountain. The subject of replacing the cables on B Mountain was raised by member Greene. This suggestion/recommendation had been made by former member Rogers several years ago and no action has been taken to date. It was proposed that a "field day" be declared at which all the board members could trek to B Mountain for a day of fun in the sun. The cost of cable and connectors to perform this task is unknown at this time. | |||
| 2. | Ad hoc committees | ||
| c. | Web site | ||
| C. | Old business | ||
| 1. | Translator rechanneling | ||
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A motion was made by member Longo, seconded by member Blazek, to
authorize spending up to $2000 each to have the B Mountain
channel 7 and channel 13 Emcee translators rechanneled and
serviced by Emceecom.
The motion was approved unanimously by the members present.
Related to this item, President Middlemiss is to contact former member Hugo regarding a source of replacement amplifiers for the translators. | |||
| D. | New business | ||
| 1. | Advertising | ||
| It was moved by member Longo, seconded by member Blazek, that $400 be budgeted for advertising associated with TVB participation in Maturango Junction Days and Santa's Art Shop. The motion was approved by a 5-0-0 voice vote. | |||
| 2. | Meeting day | ||
| President Middlemiss proposed moving the TVB board meetings from the first Monday of each month to the second Monday of each month. This would avoid the conflict with holidays such as Labor Day and (this year) July 4. It was decided to table this for consideration and action at the next meeting by which time the members can determine the suitability of such a change. | |||
| F. | Closure | ||
| 1. | Next meeting: 5:00 PM, October 4, 2004, Kern County Library, Ridgecrest | ||
| 2. | Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 PM. |
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