[WWYC] WWYC future

Fri, 24 May 2002 16:32:19 +0200

Hey WWYC

Good to see some discussion about the life of WWYC! YL1ZF asks a very
important questoin: What is the club about and what can one gain from being
a member? For me the club is certainly more than a member list on the
website. As it has been said, the #wwyc chat room is always open and many
interesting talks are going on there. Also this reflector is kept running to
keep the group together with contest reports and so on. But what I like most
is when I am operating the contests and all the familiar calls show up on
the frequency (or I call you, now where I am getting better at SO2R) and I
can key "HI HRLE" or "HI LEE" or whatever. Also there is all the small
battles with members in the same category (unfortunately I always loose to
OH2JTE)... Yes, it is often very quite here between the big contests, but
with school and jobs I understand this fact very well, and I am not so sure
if it can be changed.

I think Dimitar and Mike have done a great job on the new website
(www.qsl.net/wwyc). However, WE need to provide them with some content that
describes the life of the club. I will try to put something together
myself...

There is one thing I would like to change in the club though: The question
about how we welcome new members. On the website the member list keep
growing, but in #wwyc and here on the reflector it seems like it is primary
"the old boys" who are hanging out. Unfortunately we can't expect each new
member to make a "I am a new member" post on the reflector like N1SNB did
some time ago (welcome again Jeff!). How is this done in other clubs?

CU all in WPX CW. Unfortunately I will not be operating from OZ7YY this time
around. I am quite crashed after this weeks exams so 36 hours in front of
the radio would be too much I think. However, I am looking much forward to
give out some points and say hello to some friends with my wire antennas.

Thanks to Hrle for helping to keep up the spirit of the club! - and Hrle, as
we are all young ham radio operators I think we ARE the wheel in the future
of contesting. We just need to get the wheel to move even faster!

Vy 73 de OZ1AA, Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: SM3WMV Mikael <sm3wmv@hotmail.com>
To: <wwyc@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [WWYC] WWYC future

Hello!

On the old page there was some information about activities. There were like
2 people mailing me about the activities (including you Hrle) so there was
not much to put on the page.

Now Im studying and have absolutely no time over the handle homepage so I
asked Dimitar to take it over but he wanted me to handle it with him so I
said ok. I have not ever recived anything about a request of having the
activities on the homepage, not ever! Maybee you think that me and Dimitar
are mindreaders so let me tell you a little secret, we arent! Maybee we
should have some kind of evaluation about the club and the activities each
half year or something?

Im a big enthusiast of amateur radio but the time is just not enough to get
involved in the club, sorry but thats just a fact.

73 // Mike (SM3WMV // SM3W)

>From: "Hrvoje Horvat" <hrle@ipazin.net>
>To: <wwyc@contesting.com>
>Subject: [WWYC] WWYC future
>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:30:18 +0100
>
>this is the mail i got from YL1ZF today, and I really dont know what to
>answer. :-)
>for a start i'm willing to take over the wwyc homepage and upload the
>activites as others already noticed there's nothing about that subject
>going on on the website (webmaster?!). I read all the very good stuff on
>the #wwyc channel about the acitvity, lot of great stories, i hear a lot of
>WWYCers on the bands but nothing comming here on the list.
>There is over 100 members in here, I hear at least 30-40% of them on the
>air at every major contest but nothing to be found here nor anywhere
>around.
>I had a hope we can make a strong club with a lot of respect and to be able
>to be one of the wheels in the future contesting period, but I guess I'm
>one of the rare enthusiasts around here?
>
>If there's nobody but me we can close down the club. no?
>I dont know why to give up from what we achieved so far, and not to
>continue and get this fucking club going, dont just stand there, this club
>wont give you anything if you're not willing to put interest in it, neither
>will any other organization - you dont need to be fantastic a op neither
>good antenna builder, you dont have to know cw, etc, you just have to love
>something.
>
>I had many great moments only because of this club, and friendships that
>I've been making trough this club, and one of them is CQ WPX with  9A5K &
>HA3LN.
>
>You should be proud on this great opportunity but without your will it'll
>just stay an opportunity.
>
>73s, Hrle-9A6XX
>------------------------------------------
>
>Hello Hrle (or Lee according to my logbook, hi)
>
>Just few days ago I received mail from YL2PN Peter with some questions and
>one of  q was do I heard before something about WWYC and maybe I can join
>the club.  Yes, I told I saw such club in 3830 before but never took an
>interest. Seems there are only couple hams who corresponding with club
>rules
>in YL at all but if we talking a specially about contesting I can`t imagine
>no one except me, hi..... Already I`m member of LRAL (national society),
>Latvian contest club and Liepaja Radio Group. Maybe enought? Then looked at
>club homepage, read article about Dan`s&Andy visit (frm your pages) and
>that
>all is fine. But anyway I did not understood what the club members doing
>and
>what they can do together at all because of too large geography... Is the
>membership only to become sigboard at club`s internet pages... Tried to
>find
>something about activities (nothing about that subject in wwyc homep) but
>that was obortive attempt.. Can you explain me a bit more about club aims
>and activities. Internet articles in eng and russian (disbelieve you can
>find even paragraph in latvian, hi) are welcome...
>
>73! Kas YL1ZF
>
>
>
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