ham radio club

[KD8LWX]

I am new to HAM.
I am thinking about joining a club.

Who belongs to a ham radio club?
What club?
What makes a good/bad ham radio club? (Events?, Associated Orgs?, Bob belongs and I like Bob?)

 

[W9WD]

I have belonged to many clubs of different sorts/hobbies. IMO what makes a club is participation. Most, if not all, of the clubs that I have belonged to have had half a dozen member/families that participate and the rest just come meetings to be entertained.

Belonging to ARRL has it's perks.

 

[Moleculo]

So many Hams on the WWRF...we should start a WWRF Club. We could get a club call, but I'm not sure how we could use it scattered all over the place...

 

[W5LZ]

'LWX,
There are several different types of clubs. Some are social, some service, some because of some particular interest in something. What type of club to join just depends on your interests. (All of those 'types' pertain to ham radio, by the way.) Want to just have fun, meet people, that sort of thing? I'd say look for a club that does mainly that. Interested in some useful purpose, weather reporting, certificate hunting, any kind of 'community' service you can think of? There's probably such a club, somewhere anyway. Interested in just digital stuff, or CW, or coloring books? Bet there's a club with that specific purpose, maybe not coloring books (but I wouldn't bet on that).
The 'other' part of being in a club is that you do assume some degree of responsibility for that club. You gotta participate to belong, if that makes sense. Do wanna be a secretary?? That's almost a 'give away' job, nobody particularly wants it, you know, sort of?
So are you interested in any of that sort of stuff? Don't know? Go to a few meetings, you'll probably find out if you want to be a part of it. Don't want to? Then don't join, look somewhere else. You don't -have to- belong to a club. Some times it's a real benefit, some times not, up to you. Oh, expect to pay dues.
- 'Doc


We have meetings the first Thursday of every month, under the local jail. No, that isn't a joke! (Sometimes the meetings are, but that's where we have'em.) Come on down! The water's free, we have testing sessions, listen to people's cell phones ring (for joy!), and sometimes even get stuff done. We'll leave the light on for you.

 

[WX2MIG]

There's 4 ham radio clubs within convenient reach of my QTH, I belong to two of them. One I joined just to be a contributing member since our county skywarn organization uses their repeater for weekly nets and actual severe weather activations. I go to meetings when I have nothing else going on, beyond that I really don't contribute much.
With the other club I make an effort to go to every meeting I can, I try to contribute as much as I can, I even designed their new logo so we could get hats, polo shirts, and jackets embroidered.....(Their original logo could not be digitized for the embroidering machine, so I redesigned a new one that was voted on and accepted)

Activities in amateur radio is not limited to repeater and radio clubs. I'm also very active in Skywarn, Emergency Management, RACES and ARES, all have their links to amateur radio either directly or indirectly.

and to confirm what someone else said, it doesn't hurt to join the ARRL.....

 

[RickC.]

Good luck-- the old saw is that if there are three hams in a town there will be at least two clubs.


Rick

 

[ke7vvt]

Good luck-- the old saw is that if there are three hams in a town there will be at least two clubs.


Rick

HA!

 

[ButtFuzz]

Oh, no you did NOT!

Now let's you just drop them pants.
And them panties!

Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!
Bobby: Weee!
Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee!
Bobby: Weee!

Mountain Man: What do you want to do now?
Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth ain't he?
Mountain Man: That's the truth
Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.