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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
by Bud Hughes, K4CWG
Sherry and I just got home from a visit to Columbus, Ms., where 50 years ago we eloped and I became sole owner of this wonderful little girl.
While in Columbus we visited the courthouse (where we obtained our marriage license 50 years ago) and the service station, now a beautiful little restaurant, (where I persuaded the mechanic to come over to the courthouse and sign for my under aged bride-to-be). We also met Brian, the president of the local radio club
On our honeymoon I shrewdly convinced Sherry that she had no choice but for her to master the art of cooking. The way I went about this task was I told her that I wanted to serve her breakfast in bed. I took it upon myself to go out and fetch our first breakfast, bring it back and serve breakfast in bed. The fetching of breakfast consisted of (1) a carton of cokes, (2) a loaf of bread and (3) a can of spaghetti and meatballs. With this ingenious choice menu for this breakfast in bed I must have provided a powerful jumpstart for Sherry to learn to cook posthaste. Don't you agree that in a round about way it is I who should get the credit for Sherry becoming the wonderful cook that she is?
Hey gang the Field Day activities are just around the corner. As discussed at the club meeting Well Field No 3 just off Barna Avenue is the proposed site for
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FD activities this year. Plan to come out and help set up or supervise the antenna erections Saturday morning. We will have coffee and donuts waiting.
Hope you can attend the TARC club meeting Tuesday, June 24th at the Jaycees Bldg. Bring a friend.
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mail or fax it to the local newspaper in order to claim the 100 bonus points. Some groups reword or write their own release. And about 51 weeks later we do it all again. But, we need to rethink things.
Field Day is not enough. We need to promote Ham Radio throughout the year.
One of the items mentioned at the PR Committee meeting in Dayton last month was "Every ham is a PIO." There are ARRL PIOs in every county of our section. Most clubs and ARES groups have a PIO or PAO or Publicity Chair. Many of these PIOs are not PR professionals, but they have taken on a job no one else in the club wanted and they have made the effort to learn how to be more effective spokespersons for their club and Amateur Radio in general. For that, we are all thankful. Amateur Radio needs you to help these PIOs and to help Amateur Radio.
I think we all need to look for simple, easy ways to tell our story. Here's one from an OM living near me: "I eat a lot of fast food burgers and go through a lot of drive-thrus. My truck usually has at least 4 antennas on it. These young folks at the window comment about the antennas - I tell them it's ham radio, reach into my glove box and pull out an ARRL pamphlet and give it to them. Sometimes they talk to me about ham radio the next
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Important Message from
So. Florida Section Manager
Each June many of us participate in the event known as Field Day. We spend what is usually the fourth full rainy weekend in June with local club members and enjoy friendship, good food, mosquitoes, sunburn, and visits from Murphy. Since the event has contest rules, complete with bonus points, we often go to the information package prepared by ARRL headquarters, fill in the blanks on the press release and
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