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This
is an unofficial blurb
for the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club Inc (MRAC).
Unofficial because it is just my own doing. I
am a
past President
of the club and current historian (among other duties), so I guess I
know something about it. The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club is one of
the world’s oldest continuously active amateur radio clubs (only 2 or 3 are older). The key word is continuous. The club has never gone dormant as some other clubs
did during war time. The club was formed in
January of 1917 and affiliated with the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in 1919. The club was the sponsor for the 1947 ARRL national
convention as well as the QSL manager for SAREX Space Shuttle mission STS-51. Its members have included some of the pioneers of
electronics and broadcasting in the Milwaukee area. MRAC
has a web page of its own! Click
Here!
In 2008 you missed meetings with presentations of:
In 2009:
In 2011 During
the years 1998-2002 while I was President of the club, I wrote a monthly editorial column
for the club newsletter. A number of people
told me they looked forward to reading my rants on various aspects of Amateur Radio. If you would like to see all those editorials in
one place, I have collected them into a
document
HERE! MRAC now has a Yahoo Group for members only to post messages for other members and download latest newsletters. By the way, tell us who you are when trying to sign up to the group. The MRAC Yahoo group is open to MRAC members only, sorry. LOOK!! - Do you have any pictures of MRAC people and/or events over the years? Do you have any other memorabilia, documents, whatever from the MRAC's long history? At the least, Dave would like to create a digital copy for the club archive/photo album/scrapbook. If you can get a digital image (BMP or JPEG for pictures or scanned images) to me, just - . If you don't have that capability, I can scan (just give me time please). If you no longer want the materials, let me know that too. Thanks in advance. Did you know that Tom Fuszard KF9PU, one of the coordinators of the MRAC VEC has completed 5 years as chairman of the National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC)? Do you even know what VEC stands for? Are you an MRAC member (current or past)? Do you have a picture of yourself in your station and would like it to appear in the club photo album/scrapbook? Same rules apply as above, just - MRAC is in desperate need of people who are willing to do work for the club. This includes meeting refreshments, Field Day planning and management, net control operators (and net managers), license class instructors, on-air code practice instructors, and much more. If you are interested in helping out just contact any current board member (see the MRAC web site). -
MRAC like many other clubs (Amateur Radio and otherwise) are in need of new members. Many newer hams say they have no interest in joining a club that they only want to ___________ (you fill in the blank). Often the blank is filled in with "I only want to operate the 'whatever' repeater while I'm in the car." Well Amateur Radio is a vast hobby with a lot of different facets for one to explore. Operating the repeater is but one facet of Amateur Radio. Isn't it a lot of work to get your Amateur Radio license to do only one thing? Plus repeaters don't just grow on trees. Usually they are owned, operated, and maintained by CLUBS. No members, no dues, no volunteers, no repeaters, no Field Day, no ________(another blank to fill in).
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