Remember January’s hope?  “Built on the foundation of CARC’s 60+ years, with enthusiasm, encouragement, energy, a plan and a team, I look forward to a reinvigorated club this year.”

What a great start!

• Our leadership team is complete, with Charlene Cash, WG3Q elected as our dynamic VP!

• December’s all-member outreach generated a 57+% response rate, including some membership renewals, wonderful notes and great suggestions.  It has generated lots of excitement!

• Excitement?  January’s meeting brought THREE Members via Zoom and stuffed THREE Guests, ELEVEN Regular Members and THREE Life Members into Hoss’s!  We conducted the Business Meeting in an abbreviated format, followed by an antenna presentation and Slack discussion by members. See January’s Minutes for full stories.

• See the 1-page January President’s Report for updates. [Speaking of CARC] “This is a fun group of people, curious, eager to learn and to share knowledge. My dad, Pops WD4PFJ, spoke regularly on our skeds about having ‘lunch with the smart guys’ (hams, retired engineers, etc.). I get it!”

• Your new leadership is settling into our new roles.  With fresh eyes and experiences, we hope to spot possible enhancements and efficiencies as we learn from the past and anticipate the future.

• A group is actively investigating meeting enhancements for both Zoom and in-person experience.

• On my president’s scorecard, I’m excited about the CARC Leadership Guide initiatives that are already underway, one month on: #1 Vision, #4 Club Internal Communication, #5 Meeting Content/Format, #6 Club Management Transition.

   73,

John

Greetings and Happy New Year!   Built on the foundation of CARC’s 60+ years, with enthusiasm,
encouragement, energy, a plan and a team, I look forward to a reinvigorated club this year.

• A major focus is enhanced communications within the club.

• You may have already received the first all-club outreach.  I distributed the materials both by email
  and USPS this time, to help ensure 100% receipt. Its purpose is to share your leadership’s vision and to
  gather your input.  From everyone! From YOU! Quickly!  Your voice matters in our planning, so
  please complete and return the survey online or via USPS upon receipt.

• Gearing up for this all-club emailing, Andrew Forsyth AF3I was instrumental in revisiting and
  configuring the club’s website and webmail server for us.  Thank you Andrew!

• In December, I called together your electable board of managers – Charlene Cash WG3Q, Vice
  President; Doug Stenger KC3CPT, Treasurer; and, Maura Smith-Mitsky KC3JJH, Secretary &
  Membership Secretary.  I’m a team-oriented guy, so was keen on getting together to know each other a
  bit better, and to bop along my 8-point meeting agenda. There, we reviewed the CARC Leadership
  Guide, focusing on initiatives that you should start to see soon.

• You are guaranteed a wide representation of interests in this group!  We intend to incorporate them
  into our 2026 plans.  Let’s see how much fun our 48 members can have!

p.s. No CARC funds were harmed by these activities!

   73,

John