[RVRC] System Fusion

Marvin Bronstein marvbrons at verizon.net
Mon Mar 23 19:57:02 EDT 2015 

The loss of memberships in any ''club'' or organization is a 'mixed-bag' but 
primarily results from
a lack of interest when there aren't activities that promote the desire to 
participate.
Ham radio clubs need activities that create interest TO it's members. 
Repeater activity, in general and
throughout the NYC/Metro area,  has been on the decline for years now. 
Reasons vary, of course, but
mainly because there isn't enough interesting activities to maintain 
participation.  Many newly licensed hams have found
nothing 'material' to spend their time with and gravitate to other 
interests.  Open dissension from longer term members about club
activities or lack of activities adds to generating disinterest and 
drop-out.
It is a nearly impossible task for a club leadership to keep enough 
interesting activities that will satisfy every member.
Members need to feel ''included'', of material value..........members should 
be polled to determine what are the facets of ham radio
that interest them and go forward with programs on those subjects.

I believe that RVRC is on that path now.  Members can and should make their 
ideas known to the club as a whole
and topics can be discussed. There's a whole world of things to do and 
learn.

On the topic of our ''repeaters'', we have experienced a decline in the use 
of our repeaters for a long time now; for years!
Other clubs have experienced the same dilemma.
We have two repeaters and not enough activity to keep either one active. 
There are several activities that could regenerate
interest and can be presented to the membership as a whole. Find which 
activities are of enough interest to
members that will generate getting on the repeater(s) to talk about it.
Since the re-organization of RVRC from it's original formation (1927), our 
repeater has always been used as a 'tool' for members to keep in-touch
with each other and talk about activities of common interest.
We have experienced no increase of activities with the linking of our 70 cm 
repeater (442.250 MHz) to a network outside of our area (save one or two 
QSO's each month).
Do any of our members have ideas?  Your club leadership needs to hear from 
ALL members on what each of us have on our minds.

What did each of you believe that belonging to RVRC would do for you??.

Let's all be ''fraternal'' and ''open minded'' to regenerate our ham radio 
club which was active and to which that membership was very much
sought-after.

73,
Marv, K2VHW



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Friedman" <radiomf at comcast.net>
To: <asajm at optimum.net>; "'E. Drew Moore'" <drumor at optonline.net>
Cc: "'RVRC'" <rvrc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [RVRC] System Fusion


I agree RVRC has enough on its plate.  Dual analog/ digital technology with
pictures had been done decades ago in the cell phone industry,  hardly new
technology. Has no one noticed that our 440 has not been passing audio for
the past week? The internet control  has been lost supposedly  due to a
change in internet providers?  Were we not paying for at least part of that?
I can't reset it remotely and the technical guys are MIA. E-mail to Paul  on
Wednesday has been unanswered. The 2 meter system has been nearly dead. I
recently started  listening more often, and aside from 2 or 3 guys, it has
been mostly silent all day. John, how many members  have we lost in 2015? I
had not been informed.
73, Marty WB2BEW

-----Original Message-----
From: RVRC [mailto:rvrc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
asajm at optimum.net
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 2:32 PM
To: E. Drew Moore
Cc: RVRC
Subject: Re: [RVRC] System Fusion

I realy agree with Drew. Since the PL was changed the repeater activity has
declined because some rigs are programmed via computer and the computer
programs are not available to all for instanceMotoraola to name one and
there are more. Increased dues caused a lot of members to drop out. Now we
have less money coming in, so we gained nothing raising the
dues.
john....WA2F=============================================================---
-- Original Message -----From: "E. Drew Moore" Date: Monday, March 23, 2015
12:21 pmSubject: Re: [RVRC] System FusionTo: RVRC > Hey Pete,> > That's not
the problem with our rapidly declining membership. We > have > basically 2
almost brand new Icom repeaters that we purchased to > implement asterisk to
the club. We have been in a downward free > fall > since the purchase that
depleted our treasury. Hopefully we > learned a > lesson. This offer of up
to 2 repeaters for $500 each is > tempting to > someone and I bet someone is
going to recommend the purchase. We > seem to > continually want to spend
money before we have the money.> > I think we are on the right path by
introducing technical > programs of > interest to the membership and ones
that hopefully will attract > new > members. Couple that with participation
in activities that keeps > ham > radio in the public eye are always good.
However keeping up with > the > Jones is not a priority at least to me.> >
Just my $0.02.> > 73,> Drew, W2OU> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:49 AM,
Pete Fierro via RVRC wrote:> > > Hello System fusion...Another technology
that's taking > off.Want to > > float this past you all&say that maybe this
could be a > replacement for > > our 440 repeater?May be feasible to draw a
larger membership > if we > > switch.DMR is taking off so is System
fusion.Something to > think > > about..73..Pete> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Yaesu
System Fusion Introduction> >> > | |> > | |  | | | | | |> > |
Yaesu System Fusion Introduction |> > |  |> > | View on www.youtube.com |
Preview by Yahoo |> > |  |> > | |> >> >> >
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