For various reasons, I chose not to attend this year. I'm sorry I
missed the hamfest, but I just couldn't make it work. Having said that,
and while I agree with the sentiment that volunteers are essential for
the effort, I have two things to point out. First, that the basic level
of involvement is attendee. Be grateful for those who attend because if
nobody comes, it doesn't matter who the vendors are. Second, there are
organizations that I don't even attempt to volunteer for because they
never seemed to want me to do anything. Every time I tried to volunteer
for them, I was told not to do anything.
Not that any of the organizations I'm speaking of would be known to any
of you out there in BVARC-land, but that points to something that you
should be aware of. Becoming a volunteer is not an easy task for most
people and an organization that intends to depend upon the efforts of
volunteers into the future should spend some time thinking about how to
bring likely people along. That is, how to turn attendees into
volunteers and volunteers into section heads and so forth.
On 3/25/19 3:14 PM, JP Pritchard via BVARC wrote:
I personally, I think GHHH turned out pretty well. I hope those complaining
about it actually did something to help. Hamfests don’t happen by themselves,
they require volunteers and we didn’t hear from near enough of our members. .
If you’re not volunteering for some reason that’s understandable. But if you
just didn’t bother to show up, then you have no right to gripe.
JP K5JPP
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