Active Club Online Primer
The online primer you're about to read is a compilation and updating of the best of ARRL favorites: The Club President's Workbook and the Special Service Club Manual. Because ARRLWeb contains hundreds of pages of current and frequently-changing information, no static book can quite match it for information that active clubs need. This primer is loaded with helpful links and ideas galore to get your club enlivened! Thanks go to Marjorie Bourgoin, KB1DCO, and Margie Bourgoin, KB1DCO, for editing assistance; Tom Hogerty, KC1J, and Mary E. Lau, N1VH, for technical assistance, and, Rick Palm, K1CE, for his authorship of original source materials. Active Club Online Primer "It shall be the policy of the League to affiliate with itself organized, non-commercial Amateur Radio groups or societies of kindred aims and purposes with a view to forming a homogeneous organization for unity of action in matters affecting amateur welfare." With these words the ARRL Board of Directors created the basis for ARRL affiliated clubs, now numbering more than 2000 strong. In this section we'll look at the affiliation process, and what affiliation means to a club. Categories of Affiliation Four types of clubs can affiliate with the ARRL: Local Amateur Radio clubs, regionally or nationally organized Amateur Radio groups, local school or youth groups or Amateur Radio clubs in homes-for-the-elderly or disabled, and club councils (clubs of clubs). These four types are defined as club categories one, two, three, and four, respectively. Benefits of Affiliation In addition to being associated with more than 2000 like-minded clubs with similar goals, being an affiliated club brings your group a number of tangible benefits, presented below: • ARRL Annual Report.
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