Re: As a New or even Old Timer.... Do you know who your ARRL Section Manger is? Have you ever met them?
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GM, and greetings Steve. Serving as a local president for two years to an affiliate club, I made sure that an invitation to a club meeting with 45-60 minutes of “floor time” allotted to them. They would be able to field questions and do a presentation of their own. This established two-way communications. One year it was my Section manager, the next was my Division Direction. My family is from Texas (Gorman and Eastland) and I know of the vast wasteland North Texas covers. Club members do not always attend hamfests, but this gave them insights into what was going on. I tried to emphasize the “freebees” that the local club had at their disposal (such as mailing lists). Sounds like you are doing a bang-up job down there. Dale K8TS
From: ARRL-New-Hams@... <ARRL-New-Hams@...> On Behalf Of Steven Lott Smith KG5VK ARRL NTX SM
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 11:12 AM To: ARRL-New-Hams@... Subject: Re: [New-Hams] As a New or even Old Timer.... Do you know who your ARRL Section Manger is? Have you ever met them?
Mark,
Thanks for the reply
It appears that I am doing it right, I guess. Most of the feedback I am getting lacks specifics
I am averaging three club meetings every month I attend every Hamfest within our Section and some in our neighboring sections and at least one National Fest every other year.
ARRL FD I average 12 site visits which in North Texas demands 18 hours of windshield time within 24 hours (little or no sleep) and only 30 minutes worth of time at each site
In addition I am doing a virtual Round Table meeting every other month for the Club officers within our Section as well as a Section Staff meeting We have a team of 18 assistants and have even dedicated several Section Manager Ambassadors Our Section is one of the largest geographically speaking, hence the ambassadors are dedicated to areas displaced from the "Metro-Plex" I have also awarded an ARRL NTX Section Ham of the year every year, since taking office by asking for nominations from our ARRL members, the nominees are voted on by four members of our Section Management team and Only vote in advent of a tie
To my knowledge this Awarding a Ham of The year was not done in our Section since the seventies until I took office in 2019
This past year The first ever Female from Texas was awarded the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Youth Award, she is the the first amateur radio op in North Texas to ever receive this award and only the second amateur within our state. (North, South and West Texas)
My current push is on three fronts for this year: 1) Continue recognition of Members 2) Garner at least one national award for another North Texas ARRL Member 3) Help clubs grow the wealth of knowledge they provide members and hence enhance the membership depth in those club's by building a Club Prosperity Handbook Just one specific method is to forgo most of the business part of a General membership meeting
I exhaust my Section Management budget with the first 9 months each year and dig into my own finances to do the things for my fellow North Texas members
I am still wanting to perform better than any other SM, How is the question?
I consider what I am doing, as a minimum standard
I would love specifics on how to do better and looking for examples with specifics, anyone ?????
Mark thanks again for the input !!!
Steve KG5VK Steven Lott Smith Tele 318-470-9806 Please note: My Out Going Email address is LottsPhoto@... KG5VK@... is forwarded to my Gmail address
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 7:18 AM <k5lxp@...> wrote:
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