o The club wants to do US-Islands QSO party in Aug 2018. Alan hopes there is some commitment for 2018. We were first place in 2016 but no participation occurred in 2017.
o Solicit the membership for ideas for programs / learning topics for upcoming meetings.

o Jim K4TXJ asked if there’s any interest in having a speaker for a non-radio subject. Need a vote.
o Sidney Clay Roseberry, KK4EBB is looking for help setting his up radio / antenna. He was asked to bring in the user manuals in order to identify what he has.
o Repeater Wires –X proposal was explained by Bill, KC4ZMZ, complete with board drawings. An example of hooking up W4CN/R (147.18) to an existing network in Louisville was shown. There are 4 repeaters currently linked: Two in Oldham (147, 440), one on Floyd Knobs (440), one near downtown (440). These are linked via a room named “CQ-LOUISVILLE-2”. (A room is like a conference hub in the cloud.) The entire world has access and could link to this room as well, at any time. The status of rooms is listed on various sites, found by googling ‘wires-x node list’. By setting up a gateway node (cost proposal given above), the W4CN/R could be included. It could be set up such that the existing four repeaters will require the use of digital (DN) mode, as they are now, to be heard on the entire network, while W4CN/R could be set to require analog mode to be heard on the entire network of five local repeaters (as well as by connecting to said room by anyone via internet). This way, the club repeater would still be usable as always, for nets, etc., with analog, while being linked to more repeaters locally. This is, in effect, a way to get satellite repeater expansion sites easily. When any of the other four repeaters are accessed with analog, they will not be heard on the network. Likewise, when someone uses DN mode on the W4CN/R, it would not be heard on the other four. This way, forexample, the 147.39 Crestwood repeater can continue to have their (analog) Mondaynight net without causing a disturbance. If anyone wants to check into the Thursday night ARTS club FM net using DN mode, they can via one of the other 4 localrepeaters (or using a hotspot at home to the said room). The users on W4CN/R wouldhear the participant in analog, because the Wires-X system converts it.A vote is proposed for January meeting to proceed with this project.A comment was made perhaps the net should start a round-table discussion topic in order to foster more discussion and participation. Especially if there is the ability tolink and expand coverage, and encourage those interested in DN mode to join.

Jim - K4TXJ A Gift Card for ARRL	Marc - KG4FJR A Set of Speakers	Paul - N4XM A CW Memory Keyer
Dave - W4DFR A Remote Speaker	Robert - KC4HM A New Antenna	Bill - K4QFE A Baoefeng HT
Greg - WX8V Stereo Head Phones	Alan - KF4EFI A Screwdriver set	Paul - KA4MKT Digital Multi-meter
Sorry - Picture not available, webmaster took a very bad photo And the gift was a battery terminal multi tap for your go box.	John - KB3QAT A Radio Power Supply