Please try to keep your answers as short as possible so we have time for everyone.

If anyone doesn’t want to answer a question, no problem…when called upon simply say  you pass on this question.

#1  Why did you get a ham license and what year?

        * example: had a shortwave receiver in high school.

        *School had a radio club.

#2  What steps did you have to take to get your license?

       * were you part of a sponsored class?,

       * did you study on your own?

       * Did you have an Elmer or friend assisting you?   

       * On-line study web site?

#3  Have you operated the entire time that you have been licensed?

       * what bands primarily – HF – VHF – UHF – Microwave?

#4  What do you find enjoyable about your “ON THE AIR” time?

#5   Do you think getting your ham license has made you more receptive to learning new technologies?

#6   Do you think having two or more nets a week, Mid-Daytime & Nighttime would serve more club members? 

         * Good idea or bad idea?

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#7   How many Nets do you regularly participate in?

         * That is as a regular consistent check-in

#8   What type of Net would you like to see formed?

#9   How about  an organized 10 mtr Net or Round table schedule (so Technicians and those hams with modified CB radios can participate).

#10 How about a HARC HF net?* 80Mtr, 40Mtr, 20Mtr , 10mtr, 6 Mtr or ??

My Elmer back in the 1970’s once said, “a ham’s imagination is what has brought the ham community as far as it is today” (that was in 1973!).

Look at what we can do now 50 years down the road.…AMAZING!

We can thank the amateurs that brought their ideas out into the open ( like Joe Taylor and his visions of weak-signal operation.