Archived meeting minutes are located on our Google Drive. Link to Google Drive: Click Here
Previous Meeting Minutes
ALLEGAN COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
October 14th, 2025
Meeting Opened At: 7:04 PM
Pledge, Sign-In sheet and Introduction Yes
Topic/Program: Solar Cycle 25 Video
Secretaries Report: Website updates have been on hold since last month, club photos will be added to the website and are organized by event. If you have photos let me know and we can get them added to the website! AC8RCMI@gmail.com
Treasures Report: Balances Read
the club now has a VARA License.
Motion: Jim AC8AG Second: Ray N8LRF
Group Reports
Auxiliary Communication: October 16th, 2025 7PM
Allegan County EOC 3271 122nd Ave, Allegan MI 49010
Plan VHF Decommission work and HF Radio order.
Randy and James went to the State EOC and operated radio during the fall SET, hoping to discuss the benefits of having radio manuals and procedures set in place ahead of an activation.
Allegan County SAR: November 12th, 2025 7PM
Location: Sandy Pines North Shore Building Topic: urban search training.
In continuation to this month’s meeting. Looking forward to a great training!
VE Team: November 22nd, 2025 9AM
Martin Township Building 998 Templeton St, Martin MI 49070
Randy is thinking about emailing all the people that sign up ahead of time just as a reminder before the test. Next meeting will be the $5 off turkey day special.
Up Coming Events:
Next club Meeting: November 11th, 2025 Officer Elections
Come on out and vote!
Club Camping Trip: June 4th-7th, 2026
Fort Custer State Park
Questions? Ask Randy W8RMN randymacneill@gmail.com
we are going to try and stick around site 5, Reservation from the state start 6 months in advance. if you are interested ask Randy to add you to the email list.
Club Activities/Presentations/Opportunities:
Any ideas -!! The club is interested in Your thoughts and suggestions
Old Business:
Monterey Center remote power controller: Seth has talked to Jeff and we will hopefully be getting out to the site this Friday.
New Business:
Winter Club Meetings: January, February and March we will be having our meetings the Saturday following our normally scheduled meetings at 10AM
Repeated Trustee Meetings.
Hospital 440 needs a power supply.
Summer Field day 2026, what does the club want to do? Same Park or different location
June 27th-28th, 2026, consensus is to go back to the same park, East Saugatuck Community Park.
Christmas Party December 13th, 2025
Location: John will check on a few locations mentioned tonight.
Officer Nominations:
President: John Hanse AC8HZ Accepted Nomination
Vice President: James Kooistra KB8VUC Accepted Nomination
Treasure: Randy MacNeill W8RMN Accepted Nomination
Secretary: Seth McPherson KE8GOJ Accepted Nomination
3 Year Trustee: Kayla Kramsvogel AC1W Accepted Nomination
Meeting closed @ 8:54 Motion: James KB8VUC
Respectfully submitted Seth McPherson KE8GOJ Club Secretary
For more information please email us at info@ac8rc.org