2027: I'd like to serve again as BARC VP

In the coming year I want to do what I think helps the club most:

• Work alongside the other officers
• Bring in good technical programs
• Keep our meetings focused on the radio topics that brought us all here

Let's keep doing that

• Keep operating the way you enjoy
• Team up — help each other learn and practice the radio we enjoy
• Someone in this room already does the thing you want to try
• Someone in this room wants to learn the thing you already do

Ideas: "Never a Better Time to be a Ham"

Aaron KC0WIH's talk (slides) has plenty of starting points:

• Radios are better and cheaper than ever
• An SDR receiver for under $40 (RTL-SDR, OpenWebRX)
• LoRa mesh: MeshCore and Meshtastic
• 44Net: a public IPv4 address with your license
• Linux for hams: Debian Hamradio blend, DragonOS
• Open firmware: OpenRTX, OpenGD77
• GitHub "awesome amateur radio" lists, Hackaday

Turning ideas into meetings

Possible program formats for 2027:

• Technical presentations from members and guest speakers
• Show and tell: bring the radio, the build, the log
• Hands-on nights: program a radio, set up an SDR, try a digital mode
• On-air outings: POTA activations, VHF/UHF nets, contests

What would get you to a meeting?

More members, more active

Goal: increase the number of members actively participating in the hobby and the club.

• Pair up: someone who knows a mode + someone who wants to learn it
• Short member talks: "here's what I did on the air this month"
• Make it easy to ask for help — and easy to offer it
• Invite the members we haven't seen in a while

Meeting structure IDEAs from chatting with Jim

1. Five minutes of things like:
   1. Meshcore
   2. Makerspaces
   3. Scouting and service ideas

What's next

• Tell me (or any officer) what you enjoy and what you want to try
• Volunteer to show the club something you do
• Suggest speakers and topics for 2027