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

[wo3l at comcast.net]

I  was planning to catch that but ended up repairing my internet connection last nite instead, almost made it in time but not quite. 

So do we have a presentation for the Jan meeting? If nothing is lined up I am (hopefully) completing a wireless networking project at home this weekend, linking 2 buildings. I can share my success (or failure) with the group on Monday.

Andy

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From: 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 : 
> 
> > 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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