Great Day,

CARC has had a Things To-Do page for several years.   This page delivers listings of Hamfests, Contests, License Training Classes, License Exam Sessions, On-The-Air Nets, Radio Club Meetings (ours!), and Face-To-Face get-togethers.

The format of our Things To-Do page is driven by the website software plug-in we use — The Event Calendar.  The best view we offer on that page is a LIST which shows each event on your screen in a date-oriented sequence    There are search tools to help you locate the type of events that capture your interest.

We listened when our reading audience told us — YOU GUYS NEED TO HAVE MONTHLY AND WEEKLY VIEWS OF THE EVENTS.  Can you tell that they were shouting?
Your web administrator and others have been working on how best to present the Monthly and Weekly views.  We are at the point where there is something we can show you.

Navigation from the top menu bar:   THINGS TO-DO >> GOOGLE CALENDAR – PUBLIC

There are buttons you can push to bring up various views:  Monthly, Weekly, Agenda (List).  Or, click on a specific event and see the details.

We are still fine-tuning the format of the events after they have been exported from our legacy calendar and imported into our Google Calendar.
If it isn’t pretty on the day you visit, please try again.

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Section Traffic Manager Scott Walker (N3SW) is leaving our region. He has handed his managerial duties over to me (Tom Inman, KC8T).

Monthly, the traffic manager submits reports to the ARRL, regarding public service honor roll, and net activities.

Another responsibility of the traffic manager is to “insure that all traffic nets within the section are properly and adequately staffed.” [ARRL] Currently, both the Eastern Pennsylvania Emergency Phone and Traffic Net (EPAEPTN), and especially the CW Pennsylvania Traffic Net (PTN) are operating with minimum staff.

We need volunteers.

Please consider checking in to one or both of these networks on a regular basis.

Both nets meet daily.

Arriving traffic is delivered best by a local ham, especially the “welcome to ham radio” messages we handle often.
Both are a great way to improve your operating skills, and give back to the community.

73
Tom Inman, KC8T
Eastern PA Traffic Manager

Editor’s Note:  Perhaps you are not quite ready to volunteer.  That is okay.
You can learn a lot just by listening.
If your schedule permits you to listen to the net now and then I think you will build an understanding of how the National Traffic System operates.
Try it.  You’ll like it.  If not, hit the big switch or turn the big knob.

73,
AF3I  Cumberland Amateur Radio Club Website Administrator

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