| A. | | | Opening |
| 1. | | Call to order |
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The meeting was called to order by President Cole at 5:09 PM.
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| 2. | | Attendance |
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Board members present:
Blazek,
Cole,
Longo,
Middlemiss,
Schneider,
Wetzel
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Board members absent:
Ash,
Greene,
Manos
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Visitors:
Roy Mayhugh
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| 3. | | Approval of minutes |
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The minutes of the July meeting as posted to the Web site were approved.
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| 4. | | Treasurer's report |
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Treasurer Blazek presented the report for July through September 2006: we spent
$18,538.04 with major expenses going to Greg Best for the engineering required
for FCC Auction 85, the balance for the Pineapple Tech digital translators, the
Kern and San Bernardino County property taxes, the annual Secretary of State
corporation filing fee, and Verizon.
We now have a little over $16,600 in the bank.
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| 5. | | Correspondence |
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Treasurer Blazek reported receiving an enquiry as to where channel 41 went
and another enquiry about which HDTV television set to buy.
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| 7. | | Review of calendar and agenda |
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Treasurer Blazek reported that Maturango Days is October 21st and that we will
have a booth.
He also reported that Santa's Art Shop is December 2nd and 3rd and that he will
be unable to attend.
The Maturango Days and Santa's Art Shop schedules were started and will be
emailed to the board members that will be manning the booths.
President Cole reminded the board that the Election of Members is on the agenda
for the November meeting.
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| B. | | | Committee reports |
| 1. | | Standing committees |
| | b. | Operations |
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In August we received our Pineapple Tech digital translators for channels
35, 39, and 41.
The channel 39 translator seemed to sustain a broken standby toggle switch on
the front panel during shipping and that the power cord and manual were missing
from the channel 35 translator.
Pineapple Tech was contacted regarding replacements.
We also filed 16 television channel renewals with the FCC with a $55 fee per
channel.
During the Labor Day weekend, the Laurel Mountain translators were turned off
in order to service and repair the UHF antennas in preparation for the roll out
of the new digital translators.
On September 5th, channels 35 and 39 went on the air in digital and per our
flash cut application, the translators on channels 55 and 57 were switched off.
Channels 7 and 11 at "B" Mountain were determined to be operating at low power
and in need of repair, so channel 7 was removed and a temporary translator was
put in it's place so that repairs could commence.
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| 3. | | Digital Transition committee |
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Greg Best was given the ok to apply for eight "B" Mountain digital companion
channels for $1600.
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| 4. | | Web site committee |
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The web site was updated to reflect the new digital channels and the sections
on how to receive TV Booster signals were updated, too.
It was suggested that a pamphlet be made of the work to hand out at Santa's Art
Shop.
The annual newsletter was also posted to the website and given to Treasurer
Blazek to have copied for mailing.
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| E. | | | Discussion items |
| 1. | | Set top boxes |
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There was a short discussion regarding the seeming inability to get
local merchants to stock and sell HDTV tuner set top boxes.
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| 2. | | Antenna installers |
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There was a short discussion regarding the loss of "Rent-a-Hubby" to install
antennas and about another installer needing to be found.
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| 3. | | KABC-DT and KCET-DT |
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There was a short technical discussion about the work required to reliably
receive channels 8 and 12 from Blueridge in order to bring up KABC-DT and
KCET-DT on channels 41 and 51.
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| F. | | | Closure |
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Next meeting: 5:00 PM,
November 6, 2006,
Kern County Library, Ridgecrest
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| 2. | |
Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 PM.
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