[K3pzn-board] Happy New Year (and it's here !)

[n3sb at qis.net]

Gentlemen;

For those of you who were not aware, or were unable to attend -- 

There was a very good ARRL Atlantic Division webinar last night on building
clubs. A good portion of it was devoted to meetings & presentations. 

An electronic copy of the presentation should be available shortly; I will
forward a copy to you all when it is.

Curt's email has ideas that are very similar to what I heard last night.

73; Steve, N3SB

Quoting Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com>:

> Honestly I hadn't thought any of club matters for the past couple weeks (nor
> work either!).  I am re-engaged FWIW.  
> 
> Inquiry - do we have anything planned for the Jan meeting (one week from
> today I think ...) ?  
> 
> We have had some casual discussion on small mod's to our meeting format,
> maybe its time to start making some small adjustments ?
> 
> My thoughts:
> a) we kinda agreed we don't want business to be an overwhelming presence
> 
> b) maybe we need to bound our presentation/technical portion to some
> reasonable bounds ?  note detailed questions/dialog can be invited to spill
> into the after-meeting time, to not tie up the less-interested ....
> 
> c) new thought for me -- perhaps include some public/emergency service
> communications focus every meeting - awareness and training are key thoughts.
>  is ~ 15 minutes of informal training in something worth considering ?  i
> admit to not knowing many of the acronyms in use - we ought at least prepare
> the club to be engaged in anything happening in the upcoming month ?  this
> may be worth some fresh/modulated thinking of you all in the know
> 
> i am kinda interested in what unique/useful beyond voice communications
> capability we can further integrate into our operations, and hopefully
> demonstrate in exercises
> 
> d) engaging those who don't regularly attend -- we ought to think thru how we
> can be involved with those hams busy raising family, etc who don't come to
> meetings or are rare birds.  let me work on this some more!  i related since
> i was once a rare bird
> 
> e) how about a YL net on the repeater ?  maybe we can recruit a team of YL's
> to get something going?  (someday when we have youth, perhaps another net
> ...).  
> 
> f) other - i did get invited to the Washington Co area club Xmas party (based
> on my MD QSO party involvement).  nice group of folk, well until ARES is
> mentioned as it doesn't exist there perhaps for multiple reasons!  i sense
> WI3N has some additional fence mending to do, of course it helps to have
> KZ3AB as his more-than-able assistant.  WI3N by the way is an excellent
> singer!  
> 
> they do have the 'challenge' that many of their members live in PA, and a few
> in WV - so state boundaries are less evident there than say in Carroll
> County!  
> 
> g) technical - toward encouraging member interest, and more for my own
> interest:
> 
> - i essentially completed my research on regens, and i can almost describe
> one, and my prototype of a solid state regen is about 80% assembled
> 
> - a smaller project being considered, i wish to build a simple digital mode
> interface that operates without RS-232 or USB, but uses transmit audio to key
> the transmitter -- anyway its in the ARRL handbook and my current shack PC
> has no serial port
> 
> I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday celebration, time with family/friends
> and maybe a little ham radio.  I operated a little in the RTTY contest with
> very little station automation, but managed to have fun.  MMTTY is nifty at
> receiving signals that my S-meter doesn't see, and most of the time I could
> contact those I heard.  
> 
> 73, curt
> 
> 
> 
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