A bright future?

I'm back on the committee at the radio club for the first time in some years, and while I went to the meeting with some trepidation - I came out of it smiling. While there are a number of new faces, some of which weren't even members when I was last about, the Chairman outlined a very positive way forward for the coming year and everyone seems pretty keen to work together to restore the club to its glory days.

As I'd requested before the meeting, I was given 5 minutes or so (which, with discussion, turned into a bit more than that!) to bring everyone up-to-date with my current skill-set and outline what I felt I could bring to the table as a returning member of SARS, and as a member of the committee. Some of my ideas invoked discussion and we went rather over the 5 minutes - but it was almost all positive (including my proposal that we consider moving the club magazine over to a more blind-compliant digital format from the one it's currently presented in) so I'm now pretty optimistic about the coming year.

I was also able to make a number of offers and suggestions with regards to some of the other matters discussed, such as sourcing QSL cards, club publicity, and filling the vacant October slot on the club meeting/talks list. I've also offered to donate one of my very old laptops to the club once I've decommissioned it as a server. It's got a floppy drive and a serial port, and so should be great for all their old software used for contest logging etc. I have to check however whether it has a DVD drive, as one of the other things they'd need it for is for showing videos at meetings. I'm sure I can sort something out!

All that said and done - I came out of the meeting feeling like I'd returned to a big group of old friends, which was lovely. I think we could be in for a good year as far as SARS is concerned, and I'm really hoping that we can do a lot to expand our membership this year. Our treasurer also happens to be the membership secretary for my local branch of RAYNET - and gladly took my forms and subs before I left. It certainly looks like we could have good times ahead!