Our October meeting will be held as usual at 6pm at the Salvation Army Corp, (building). It will be on Thursday, 10/10/19. The October meeting is very important and it is necessary for everyone to participate. This is the meeting in which we call for nominations for the club officers for the upcoming year. At the Novembers meeting, we will be electing the club officers for the next year.
Attendance at the club meetings has been dwindling and it is important for everyone to attend the next two meetings.
I will not serve as president as of January 1, 2020. I will continue to be an active member of the club but I will not hold an office or be a Trustee. I am applying to the United States Navy Sea Cadet program and it will take up a lot of my time. I will also be increasing my work with the Salvation Army.
I will be taking a class at the Salvation Army Corp. on Wednesday the 18th of this month which will make me an official volunteer. Soon after that, I will have completed all the requirements to become a member of the SATERN program.
Many of you have been members of the club while we were at the Red Cross. You should remember that I was a member of the Disaster Services Team while Chris was in charge of the Bay County office. I responded to local disasters -resident fires, taught classes and was deployed to two hurricanes in Florida. The Salvation Army gives me the same opportunity to actively help others.
I have been in the Bay Area Amateur Radio Club for more than 13 years. I was always a member of our ARES group but in all that time I never had the opportunity to participate in any ARES response, there weren't any.
As far as I can tell there are only three people who belong to ARES in Bay County. They are Tony, Pat, and Chuck. If you think you are a member and want to continue to be a member please contact them and let them know.
At our last meeting, Chuck gave us an update on AUXCOMM. He described how AUXCOMM was organized and how it will be implemented in the time of a local disaster. It is my understanding that there will only be a few true members of AUXCOMM and those members will be activated to gather needed resources form the Amateur Radio community. If I understand it correctly, all it takes to be an AUXCOMM resource is to have a skill which the AUXCOMM coordinators need. There are no training requirements and you will not be an official AUXCOMM member. You just need to be willing to be called upon. If you want to be a resource that can be called upon when needed then contact Pat or Chuck.
And finally,
Everyone complains that we are not attracting new members to the club. Everyone offers suggestions, all very good, but no one volunteers to help make those suggestions a reality. If we want the club to grow then we need to be involved and to take responsibility for something. ... See MoreSee Less