CSMA Meeting Minutes
General Membership Meeting
Sunday April 14, 2002


The meeting was called to order at 10:07 am.  Paul Gibson, N1TUP presiding.
The meeting was held at the Southington Hamfest.
The minutes from the previous meeting were read and accepted.
The Treasurer's report was read and accepted.  CSMA has a balance in the
checking account of $286.

Old Business:

John M. Ahle, W1JMA, reported on the status of the IRS 501c3 filing.  The
IRS received the application and will deem it complete within 120 days.
Dana Underhill will send out via email the latest version of the constitution
and Articles of Incorporation.

The Policy Committee has had a lengthy meeting to formulate coordination
policies and procedures.  At this point they are 35% complete.   It is
anticipated that a draft will be brought to the group in June.

Mark Casey, K1MAP, has again requested that all updates for coordination
and information regarding emitters be sent to him.  He reminded the group
that it takes about 5 hours to prepare coordination papers.

Mark reported that the FCC and Riley Hollingsworth has used information
provided by CSMA to deal with an uncoordinated repeater in Connecticut.
Mark stated that the letter sent to the operator of the uncoordinated repeater
had made reference to CSMA.  

There was a discussion about the new ARRL repeater directory and a footnote
regarding the old TSARC region.  CSMA is part of the now defunct TSARC region.

John, W1AN, asked Mark to document the emitters in Connecticut that recognize
CSMA.  51% are needed to meet NFCC standards.  It was suggested and accepted
that each officer and director will contact each emitter by county.  The
assignments are as follows:

Ed KA6FDW  Litchfield County
John W1JMA  Fairfield County
John W1AN  New London County
Dana and Paul  Hartford, Tolland and Windham
Bruce Markus  Middlesex County

Each emitter should be asked to refile papers with K1MAP so our data base is
accurate.

No other business was discussed.  The next meeting will be on June 2, 2002 at
10am at the Newington Hamfest.   The meeting was closed at 11 am.

Respectfully submitted,
John M. Ahle  W1JMA
Acting Secretary