[SOC] Off Topic: Ideas for club programs

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

Off topic?  Off topic?  I didn't think nothing was steenking off topic 
here (except religion and republicans)

One problem I've seen with the program first is after the program a lot 
of people will leave before the
(ugh) business part of the meeting!

Suggestions ......
1  Look at NCDXF video list and try to get a DXpedition video.
2  Download the latest BPL movie from www.arrl.org
3  There is a BC-610 movie that can be downloaded - cool for the old 
timers and shows the younger hams what it was.
4  Find the local Winlink / ARES guru to do a program
5  Call the ARRL Section Manager or EC or Division Director / Vice 
Director to do a talk
6  Find a local gung-ho QRP'er who has access to one of the PowerPoint 
programs
7  We have had the local electric company come in and do a show on how 
high voltage can cook a hot dog ..... and people, too.  These days you 
might get them to talk about BPL!  :-D
8  If there are no YL's or XYL's, Cindy Margolis might come to your club 
and put on a show
9  OK ..... scratch #8

There's a few ..... Beats the H out of sitting through yet another 2 
meter club meeting (with some HF ops attending) listening to "them" 
bicker about the repeater, the control codes, the location, yada yada yada!

73   
hank
soc #69




N0UF wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Have the program first, that way a non member presenter can leave when 
> they are finished.
> 30 minutes is a good time to shoot for.
>
> gl es 73,
> Bob N0UF
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Besemer (WM4B)" 
> <mwbesemer at cox.net>
> To: <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:32 PM
> Subject: [SOC] Off Topic: Ideas for club programs
>
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> My apologies for the off-topic post, but despite the fact that this 
>> place is
>> SOC, a lot of folks here have some great ideas!
>>
>> I recently joined a club which is in obvious need of help.  The business
>> meetings are FAR too long and the programs are nearly non-existent.  
>> Last
>> meeting we had a program set up on digital modes, but by the time the
>> business meeting ended, the program only had about 15 minutes to 
>> run.  On
>> top of that, a lot of the 'old hats' were totally turned off by the 
>> digital
>> stuff.
>>
>> I think we've got a good mix of folks... old hats and newer guys, 
>> (although
>> at 41, I'm probably one of the youngest members) and some of the guys 
>> have a
>> lot of interest in getting this thing working.  We've got some 
>> politics too,
>> but it's fairly minimal and I think we can put a stop to that too 
>> with some
>> work.
>>
>> (Okay... I'm rambling!)
>>
>> Anyway, what do you guys think would be some good topics for programs?
>> Perhaps 30 minutes in length, interesting to both the old timer and the
>> newbie.
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>>
>> 73
>>
>> -- de WM4B
>>
>>
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