[MIham] Fw: New Article

Tue Sep 30 12:07:21 EDT 2008

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From: NB4K 
To: NB4K 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: New Article

Below is a copy of my Bio and intention to run as Vice-Director and have hopes that you'll place it in your newsletter and or read it at your next club meeting. Thanks

73

John D. Meyers , NB4K

218 Cory Lane 
Butler, Kentucky  41006-8995 
H. 859.472.6690 
C. 589.512.9598 

Hello, 

I hope you don't find this e-mail intrusive or spam-like as it is not meant to be. I am sending you this e-mail so you will be better informed about me and my abilities to make a good Vice-Director. Please read it, and if you agree with me, then I would appreciate your vote when you receive your ballot within the next two weeks.

1My name is John D. Meyers, NB4K. I am 61 years old and a graduate of Princeton High School (1966) in Sharonville, Ohio. I'm married to Shirley A. (Oaks) Meyers with three children, two girls and a boy (who is in the United States Air Force and stationed in Tucson, AZ), four grandsons and one great granddaughter and one great grandson. Shirley and I live in Pendleton County with a Butler, Kentucky address. I am retired and enjoy my hobbies and my church (Grassy Creek Christian). We like to travel in our motor home and over the last 30 years we have been in 40 of the 48 contiguous states. 

Here are some of my qualifications for this position. I have been an Amateur since 06-81 as a Novice KA4UZN, Technician in 02-82 N4GNL, General in 04-87 N4GNL, Advance 01-89 N4GNL and Extra 03-2001 NB4K. I have been a league member since 1983. In 1981 I accepted the position of Emergency Coordinator of Kenton County Kentucky, although not a league member I remained in this position for two years then assumed the duties of District Emergency Coordinator (DEC) as a league member and after 27 years I retired from on December 31, 2007.

As a DEC I played a very large part in helping the Northern Kentucky Amateur Radio Club (NKARC) (which I was President three different times) receive over $125,000 worth of amateur equipment and a heated/air-conditioned hut from AT&T for use in emergency related incidents and regular amateur communications. Before retiring as DEC I managed the Kentucky District 7 Amateur Radio Emergency Team (KD7ARET) amateurs to new levels in the nine counties we served. With the county, hospital or the ham organization support there were 2 meter/440 radios, antennas, power supplies and coax installed in each of the 9 EOCs, District office and 2 hospitals. Three of the EOCs have complete HF stations also. Forty-six members of KD7ARET have been certified in IS-100, IS-200, IS 300, IS-400, IS-700 and IS-800. Over thirty were trained in damage assessment and the same amount in basic first-aid. Many other forms of training and educations were afforded these 88 members. I have never asked any member to do something that I haven't already done or completed. I have completed sixty-one FEMA EMI courses.

I served as Kentucky (KY) Section Manager (SM) for 3 consecutive terms from 2001 thru 2007. Kentucky being the smallest of the three Sections in the Great Lakes Division was a real task at hand. I enjoyed every year I had the position as each and every member of the Kentucky Section made it a delight to have the position. As KY SM I meet or talked to: two different Governors (Patton and Fletcher) Representative Rocky Adkins, Tom McKee, Alecia Webb-Edgington, Arnold Simpson, Thomas Kerr and Senator Katie Stine. I have either talked about amateur radio or the lives of an amateur to each of the individuals. As SM I worked with the Ky League of Cities to secure the fact that PRB-1 is not an issue in Kentucky. Over the years there became a poor turnout for NTS in KY on the phone bands so, I had all NTS traffic moved to the CW nets and any emergency traffic taken to the Kentucky Emergency Net, which worked really well as NTS is alive and well in KY. Now this won't work in every Section but it worked in Kentucky. No way would I advocate this for every Section, just was the cure at the time for Kentucky. When assuming the duties of SM there was 11 clubs and 4 SSC clubs. When I left office there were 33 clubs and 11 SSC clubs. As SM I visited each and every club in KY at least once and some two and three times as requested. 

Since the first of this year I have volunteered with the Pendleton County Emergency Management as a Special Projects Officer in cooperating amateur radio. In April I was appointed to Chair the Great Lakes Division Legislative Action. As a team all of us the Legislative Action Coordinators of each section their group of Legislative Action Assistants and the members of the section can and will make a difference in Washington. Now, I want to serve the Great Lakes Division in the same manner as I did as a DEC, SM and DLAC asking that you vote for me this October to make this come true. My door, phone and e-mail will be open to each of you if you have any questions or comments. I look forward to meeting and seeing each and everyone one of you. 

73

Sincerely,

John D. Meyers, NB4K 

218 Cory Lane

Butler, Kentucky 41006

Home: 859.472.6690

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