[W3GV] June Meeting Minutes

Sun Jun 13 17:08:36 EDT 2021

If you attended the June meeting, you would have heard the whole presentation.  Of course we should recruit women, and young people but our best bet is men age from 30 to 40 years.
To see whole presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4mrcZ7yBLg&t=986s

John Lindvay
814-455-1061
814-490-0253
jlindvay at msn.com

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Well said Buddy !
73'sBob Herman, W3IAX

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From: Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name>
To: Radio Association of Erie (PA) <w3gv at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Jun 5, 2021 1:36 am
Subject: Re: [W3GV] June Meeting Minutes

Moreover, amateur radio has been considered a guy’s hobby for far too long. Sure, women have been hams as long as there have been hams. The YLRL has been around since the 1930’s. But surely the reasons for more women not being hams aren’t limited to aptitude or interest? Do women feel welcomed and valued as equals? With the push for encouraging more women to explore STEM fields, should the same not apply to amateur radio? I’d love to see more female  hams, and not just because their voices break DX pileups more readily. I’d say that our hobby will be richer for the addition of more women and more youth. Maybe with younger people, their ham radio won’t look like your or my ham radio, but ham radio is, as Dave Bell said, the world’s greatest hobby. And that’s because it’s very, very broad, with far more facets than many of us will ever be able to explore fully. Many aspects that we won’t all *want* to explore. (I have little interest in digital non-cw modes, for instance, and less interest in microwave and up work.) Anyway, bring in the women. Encourage them, mentor them, and for goodness sake don’t talk down to them! I think too many women get the message that this is not a place for them, and it really is. It should be. We’re all human beings looking for connection, or expanding our knowledge, or learning something interesting. There’s room for all of us.

Vy 73,

Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Email: buddy at brannan.name
Mobile: (814) 431-0962

> On Jun 4, 2021, at 10:49 PM, John Lis <jjlis165 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You may want to rewrite your minutes.  -- Text from minutes "The speakers
> said instead of recruiting young people, the members of the club should
> concentrate on men in their 3os and 40s" .  Remember there are women too!
> Ham radio brought me and my wife together.  Ham radio can be a hobby for
> both a husband and wife.  It comes in handy when one forgets to turn on
> the cell phone.
>
> 73,
> John
> N3NKV
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 10:17 PM JOHN LINDVAY <jlindvay at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Radio Association of Erie
>> June 3, 2021
>> Meeting Minutes
>>
>> Attendees: Frank Etzler N8QWZ, Richard Durning WA1JYZ, Richard Quinn
>> KB3ZVH, Joe Ponchak KA3CPV, John Lindvay WB3IFD, Doug Sweet AD4UL, Bob
>> Sorento KC3GBD, Ron Siebolt WB3DOM
>> Guest: Covey Ponikvar KC3QXH
>> Frank Etzler presented a video discussion of interesting more people in
>> ham radio.  The speakers said instead of recruiting young people, the
>> members of the club should concentrate on men in their 3os and 40s.
>> Old Business: None
>> New Business:  Discussed logistics for Edinboro Triathlon.  Ron Seyboldt
>> volunteered to be membership chairman.
>>
>> Meeting adjourned at 8 PM
>>
>>
>> John Lindvay
>> 814-455-1061
>> 814-490-0253
>> jlindvay at msn.com
>>
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