Hey Robert, When I move to a new city/town, I float around on various repeaters and then I typically land on one that has activity. I always join the associated club to help fund the rpt. But then nearly a year later everyone tells me that bvarc doesn’t “own” the repeater. I grew up with a ham dad who always owned and maintained vhf and uhf repeaters and I saw firsthand what it took to keep things running. (I was a very young flashlight holder in a very tiny outhouse size closet on pallets under the water tower during outages at night.) My experience over the years was that a ham club membership just got me annual voting rights and a newsletter… but I was pleasantly surprised to discover this group is quite active with events and things always happening to keep people involved, even though I don’t have time to participate in many.
I’ll continue to be a bvarc member, but I will also be donating separately to the repeater fund. Thanks for all your hard work keeping the proverbial wheels from falling off.. Chris/AC5CM From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> On Behalf Of Robert Polinski via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:30 PM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' <bvarc@bvarc.org> Cc: Robert Polinski <emdhous...@suddenlinkmail.com> Subject: Re: [BVARC] How many members support BVARC ? Or how bout the repeater users (all repeaters ) not donating to the repeaters!! lol From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org>> On Behalf Of Eddie Runner via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:09 PM To: David Lira via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org>>; bva...@bvarc.org<mailto:bva...@bvarc.org> Cc: Eddie Runner <eddie.run...@yahoo.com<mailto:eddie.run...@yahoo.com>> Subject: Re: [BVARC] How many members support BVARC ? It was me, in an earlier post in this same thread I said.. now, what about the folks that tie up the repeater and refuse to join BVARC? It was kind of a joke, and something a few might pick up on.. some folks that are REAL ACTIVE are just not BVARC members (yet) Even some of the best complainers sometimes are not BVARC members. Eddie (NU5K)
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