Greetings! — This is the January 2025 Issue
Volume 05, Issue 01 – Posted December 26, 2024
January. Time to turn the calendar and launch a new year of service and education.
Your 2025 elected officer team is:
President Frank Mellott KB3PQT
Vice-President John Luthy WA3KCP
Treasurer Garry Fasick K3EYK
Secretary Paula Anstine KC3UVH
Membership Secretary Richard Johnson N3EPY
Dave Smith W3SOX is the appointed trustee for the club call sign-K3IEC.
What do we hope to do in 2025? In no particular order:
- Field Day 2025@Shaffer Park
- Promote portable operation and POTA through on-the-air activities.
- Operate the 10 Meter Phone Net on Wednesdays on 28,400 KHz USB at 8:00 p.m.
- Operate two 2-Meter nets on Sunday:
A Digital Data net on 146.490 MHz FM Simplex at 6:00 p.m. local, and
A Phone net on 146.490 MHz FM Simplex at 7:00 p.m. local.
- Assist newly licensed members in learning about the wonderful world of amateur radio.
- Set up and operate a multi-operator, multi-transmitter entry in the Pennsylvania QSO Party on Saturday October 11, 2025
- Provide communications for the Dillsburg Farmer’s Fair parade on Saturday October 18, 2025
- Light the Luminaries at Children’s Lake in Boiling Springs on December 30, 2025.
To do this, we need YOU! Yes, YOU!
- We need you to attend meetings, either in person or on Zoom.
- We need you to participate in events.
- We need you to not just show up, but help set up. And help tear down.
- We need you to tell us what you want. Then help make it happen.
Let’s have a Sporcle.com moment. They are big in the business of offering solutions to crossword puzzle clues.
Clue: An association or organization dedicated to a particular interest or activity.
Answer: Club.
Without people of a common interest, we are nothing.
By mobilizing people having a common interest and we can accomplish a lot.
“People of a common interest” refers to a group of individuals who share a similar passion, hobby, or topic of interest, allowing them to connect and engage with one another based on that shared enthusiasm; essentially, a community built around a specific area of shared knowledge or enjoyment.
Did you detect a pattern among the key words mentioned above?
Interest
Passion
Connect
Engage
Enthusiasm
Enjoyment
What have you done today?
For more information, or if you want to get onboard and be a part of the CARC Radio Road Show,
please see https://www.radioclub-carc.com/touch-base/
See ‘ya down the log.
Frank KB3PQT
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