COMMITTEE’S REPORT - 20120/20131 – 83TH Year
KOMMITEE VERSLAG - 20120/20131 – 83ste Jaar
Introduction
On behalf of the committee I would like to present this report about the past year.
I must say that it had indeed been a great privilege and honour for me to have been the Chairman of the Pretoria Amateur Radio Club for the past year.
I would like to start off by thanking every member of my committee for their wisdom, support and tremendous effort during the year. As you all know, this is definitely not a one man show but a team effort to keep everything on track. Andas well as to constantly resolve the admin challenges that comes up.
During the past year the key of 1 of our honorary and until recent very active, club members, have become silent. On the 15 th of March 2013, OM Bill Ingelson,ZS6KO, lost the battle with cancer. He had been a member of our club for 65 years. RIP old friend. We will remember you.
During the past year, oOur club membership during the past year had has increased.We currently have just fewer than 880 paid-up members making us one of the biggest clubs in the country. The rest of the committee and I would like to thank those members who so regularly renew their subscriptions and who actively participate in club activities like attending the meetings, participation during contests, reporting in on weekly bulletins, contributions to Watts and our website,which can certainly be morestill be improved, keeping our VHF and UHF repeaters going, making sure that Echo link, IRLP and DSTAR is working, arranging flea-markets, organising communications at rallies and so much more.
Monthly meetings
The matter of club meetings is of great concern to the committee. The monthly meetings of late have not been attended too well, please let us know what you would like from the monthly meeting.
Louis Pieterse from ICASA hads agreed to act as guest speaker for us at some of our future club meetings. After an active 30 years in the RF industry he has many interesting stories and loads of facts to share.
Club activities.
Repeater
Thanks to the dedication of Craig ZS6RH, the repeater network is operating very well .Craig be assured that we all appreciate your efforts in maintaining the repeater and once again thank you very much. Also a big thank you to all who assisted Craig in the past year. ZS6JPL, Johan Lehman, thank you very much for keeping our Echo link and IRLP working.
Watts
To Hans ZS6KR , editor of Watts. What can we say?A huge thank you for regularly putting the Watts together every month.Hans you are doing a sterlingjob! Once again thank you very much.
Rallies
Johan ZS6JHB, thank you very much for all the hours that you put into Rallies. Another big thank you, to all of our members who assist Johan so regularly and their SW’s for allowing them to. During the past year they provides communication on 4 National and 7 Regional Rallies.
Clubhouse
Thank you to Pieter, ZS6CN who so regularly make sure that the lecture hall and liquid refreshments at Tukkies is ready for our meetings there. Johan ZS6JHB for arranging PMC for the alternate events.
Treasurer
Andre, Thank you for all your efforts in keeping our finances in order. Especially well done on getting the SARS clearance sorted out. I believe that we are the first club in the country to have been successful in this.
Flea-markets
It really looks the idea to move our flea-markets at PMC had been a very good one. Throughout the year the flea-markets were well attended. To Almero ZS6LDP for organising these events,Johan ZS6JHB for taking on the catering role, I think it certainly went very well. Hans ZS6KR that is always there with the odd connectors and plenty of other use-full goodies. And to one and all of our regular and not so regular sellers from other clubs, your will always be welcome at our flea-markets and other club events.
Bulletins
ZS6BTY, Vince to you and your team of presenters and regular contributors, a HUGE congratulations on a job very well done. Thank you to one and all for taking a turn. Hans ZS6KR what can I say, well done with your weekly swop-shop on the air and our website.
ZS6BTY, Vince to you and your team of presenters and regular contributors, HUGE congratulations and thank you for a job very well done. The hours spend in collecting and recording this information and so regularly keep us all informed is appreciated by everybody. Thank you to one and all for taking a turn. Hans ZS6KR what can I say, well done with your weekly swop-shop on the air and our website.
Contests
Last year had has not been the best of years for us as a club on the contest front. Regardless, thank you all very much for your contribution during the past year’s contests in the past year. If you know of somebody else that is prepared to assist us, it will be greatly appreciated.
RAE
This is the third year that PARC is doing theassisting with preparations for the RAE again. I do notice a few of the recent attendees among us. Thank you very much to Vince Harrison ZS6BTY for taking the lead with this. May Hopefully we will be able to keep this up and get draw some young blood into our club. If you are aware of anybody in our area that is interested in becoming a Radio Amateur, please get his or her contact details to Vince, Fritz or any member of the committee.
A big apologiey if I did not mention your name in this list. And if you have any idea on how to improve on what we are currently doing, please do not keep quiet. Do make an effohesitatert to inform the committee. All suggestions will be listened too and feedback will be provided.
Thanks again to each and everyone who in some way made a contribution to our club and in doing so ensured ensuring that our hobby is still going strong..
Be radio-active.
73’s and 88’s
Pierre ZS6PJH
Bydrae vir die (Stoelman se) komiteeverslag.
Dalk ook geskik vir die Watts wat na die AJV verskyn.
The PARC Logo incorporates an image of the SARL Logo mainly because of PARC’s affiliation with the SARL. During the past year, the SARL Logo has changed, as did the rules and guidelines for its use by clubs and members.
The SARL does not allow their new logo to be used as it is used in the PARC logo at present. It is also a good idea for the PARC logo to be completely under control of the club, owing nothing to any other organisation.
The committee would not like to force a new logo on the club members and has therefore decided to await proposals from the members. The member whose proposal is finally adopted, will receive free club membership for a year (two years?).
Send your proposals in MS Word format to the PARC Secretary before the end of 2013, together with any explanations (if necessary) of the symbolism involved. The committee will select a new logo from the available proposals, at their January meeting.