[RVRC] W3WAN

[Mike Christiansen]

RVRC ,
Hello everyone, I don't really know where to start with this. It seems we
have a problem through the entire club when I read through the emails that
are going back and forth. I'm wondering if that is the problem or if there
is just a small group having issues with some area of our club.  My opinion
of being connected to the WAN system is that it is probably favorable to the
club in general, do I personally use it? No I don't but it isn't for any of
the reasons in any of these emails, my reason is that I don't have 440 in my
car and besides getting on the RVRC net once a week my radios in the house
don't get used as I have too many other more important things going on. That
being said, the reasons we have all of these really cool repeater and
technical things going on is that our Tech Committee guys (and I believe the
membership in general) are trying to come up with ways to make the club
better, increase membership (which means more money in the treasury), keep a
good user base on the repeaters, and for all intents and purposes make the
club grow and thrive in a horribly depressed economy. If members really want
to "help" the club let's look at the good things happening and if there is
an issue that is carrying along with those good things then we can discuss
them at a meeting and decide there whether or not we want to continue with
said "good things". We keep trying to come up with great fund raising ideas
and different ways to make our club more fun and solvent. I believe the
bottom line in a radio club (such as ours) is to have good quality radio
repeaters and members who get on them and use them, that is how we have
gotten to this point so far. I know when myself and a number of others were
on the air most of the day, every day our membership was busy taking in new
members at every meeting.
	On a completely different note, do we want to stay connected to the
WAN? Well let's discuss it at a meeting. Yes, I think this should be
discussed at a meeting, if the other "70 members" have a legitimate gripe
with what's happening in the club I believe they should actually get out to
a meeting once a month and bring up their thoughts in front of the group.