SARC Zoom meeting 2022-12-20

Hello SARC

Our final Zoom meeting of the year happens tomorrow night Dec 20 at 8 PM.

It has been a very busy time trying to tie up all the loose ends before the end of the year, so I apologize for this late notice.

The meeting after this one will be on Jan 10, 2023 7:30 PM and will be a hybrid Zoom meeting held at the Don Montgomery Centre.

Our previous meeting was very productive and there were many great ideas put forward.

I will list them below.

•  Please come up with some practical to do events and presentations for the upcoming year.
• Perhaps we could have a short course (training session) or presentation on how to do presentations. This would encourage others to try making presentations to our group.
• Another idea is to record a YouTube channel with interesting content about the club and activities.
• Pass our club information onto community organizations who may be interested in presenting the club to their members or perhaps use our radio communication skills.
• Make ourselves known by attending other events that may spark some interest in what we do as a club. Some suggested events like Maker fests - Library events - Car clubs - Railroad clubs etc.
• Set up a table or attend as a group to other ham fests in the area.
• Investigate other events such as star parties at the Dunlap observatory where a knowledge of electronics may be common ground for inter group interactions.
• Make our presence known on ONTARS either through a notice on there web page of upcoming meetings and SARC events or through monetary support of ONTARS
• Volunteer to be a controller on ONTARS to enjoy some on air time and promote the club.
• It was decided to make a SARC postcard to mail out to a select 100 known HAM license holders in the the Scarborough area. Adrian is working up a design for the postcard. We will then need to address these cards, purchase the postage and see the response. Apparently COSTCO offers a discount on postage stamps to help reduce our investment in this idea.
• Nick Blacklock suggested we offer an Elmer program to assist others to become HAMS.
• Publish some of your projects that may be of interest or require the assistance of other SARC members so we are more supportive of each other and enjoy shared activities.
• Investigate the redesign of our web page that is currently residing on a server whose operating system is outdated and eventually need to be updated.
• Cross silo our interests in segments of the hobby. Just because you only operate contests or chase DX does not mean you couldn't find some time to enjoy satellite, CW, SSTV, Digital etc. We have great knowledge in the club to share with others.

As you can see there are a lot of ideas here not to mention special SARC outings and trips.

Please attend tomorrow night by Zoom so we can further develop our club and activities.

Thank you everyone for you support.

73 Duncan