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

[Curt Milton]

Wow - timely & excellent!  

If we don't have a speaker for January meeting, why not enlist previous-president N3SB to present a summary on 'club building' as the main course ?  Purpose -- enlighten the club on what ideas and successful results are about; and later the board (still to be elected) will further discuss them.  

If we do this -- I would be willing to give a real short (10 minute) presentation of candidate club-encouraged building projects -- i will try to create and list of hopefully 3-4 options.  

Or does someone have something related to public service (for a general audience who may not be experts...) 

Or .... 

Remember its not about the presenter -- its about the audience we wish to inform and interest, not bore .... 

I am looking forward to working with the club in 2009, perhaps somehow being re-elected or even as a club member-at-large.   

73, curt

--- On Tue, 1/6/09, n3sb at qis.net <n3sb at qis.net> wrote:

> From: n3sb at qis.net <n3sb at qis.net>
> Subject: Re: [K3pzn-board] Happy New Year (and it's here !)
> To: wb8yyy at yahoo.com, "Board of Directors of the Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-board at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:41 PM
> 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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