4/5/2008 Meeting Minutes
Meeting began shortly after 7:00PM on August 2nd, 2008 at Peace Lutheran Church in Puyallup.
Old Business
August Launch
With very low interest being shown publicly for this event, the August commercial launch has been canceled.
October Launch
Mike Wyvel will be the launch director and it will be held at the Sportsman's Club location. Mike will be looking into marketing this last launch of the season as a "destination" launch. Stay tuned for more information.
Selling Launch Pads
Denny Smith found enough parts in his garage to assemble two new K-pods. Neil Anderson wants one and we believe there is still an interested party in Norway.
FITS 2008 Photos
Mike Wyvel will send email to the various lists announcing the availability of the FITS 2008 group photo taken by Kent. The price will be $15/photo. Payments will be made via PayPal by sending money to the WAC account at secretary _at_ washingtonaerospace _dot_ org.
New Business
Launch Controllers
Andrew MacMillen will have the new mid/high-power controller done in time for the October launch. The away cell controller needs to have the ni-cad battery pack in the controller box replaced with something that will allow us to use a standard 12v SLA battery.
Trailer
The loan on the club trailer has been paid off. Wahoo! We need to transfer the title and registration to the club and look into insuring it. Carl will look into these things.
Prefecture Improvement Plan
Tripoli is offering funds to prefectures for "improvements". The plan is to purchase a new FM transmitter and antenna to replace the 10 year old system.
New Launch Pads
For FITS 2009, a target GSE improvement is to to provide four new mid-power launch pads to supplement the two existing Quad-pods. As with the high power pads previously, the offer to sell to individuals will be made to take advantage of any production run.
Attendees
Andy Casillas Bill Wyvel Brad Wright Carl Hamilton Kent Newman Mike Wyvel Robert Simpson-Clark There where others, but I didn't write them down.
Guests
Mike Bob Jimerson (sp?)