From: William=E.=Newkirk%Pubs%GenAv.Mlb@ns14.cca.CR.rockwell.COM
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Marquette University ARC
Date: 12 Oct 1992 05:50:50 -0700
Organization: UCSD Usenet Gateway
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(KI4TG, what do you think?   I'm going to try to send this back to the sender, 
but i don't know if i've parsed his address ok...so it's also going back 
to the boards...)
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>Date: 10 Oct 1992 18:50:20 GMT
>From: spool.mu.edu!studsys.mscs.mu.edu!jason@uunet.uu.net
>Subject: Marquette University ARC
>To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
> 
>By default, I have become the president of RAMS (Radio AmateurS of Marquette).
>The organization (W9ODD) has been strong in the past but now there are two
>members and an advisor.  We have an operating repeater (147.21+ for locals) and>
>such.  The problem is:  We cannot find members!  I would like help from folks
>on good ways of finding people.  Also, I will be making a poster for a meeting;>
>can anyone suggest catchy things to get people interested?
> 
>Thanks...
> 
>73 de N9LEA  President, RAMS (W9ODD) Marquette U., Milwaukee
> 
>

hope this gets back to you...

you have a working repeater system -- do you do anything with it? (amateur 
radio newsline reports, for one..?)

from my experiences at Rose-Hulman in 1977...

	get the advisor to find out if admissions has any information on
	incoming freshmen's interests.  if successful, go press some flesh.

	get a copy of the callsign tapes from the callsign project guys then
	run it against student names to extract unknowns.  (do the faculty
	while you're at it too).  could be the best $20 + tape + ship you
	can spend today...assuming you can get the computer resources..

	hold a shack clean up and picnic in the spring....clean up the shack
	in the morning, then in the afternoon or evening go to a park and
	have a cookout....everyone that works gets to eat.

	you ARE holding published meetings...?  dues reasonable?

	hold exams - hopefully regularly...school club's participation is
	to provide rooms and maybe some VEs...announce in school paper.

	run some traffic for thanksgiving and christmas (25 words or less)
	like "hi mom x be home november 24 x love son", put message forms
	in school newspaper, ship data out on packet (we had to do it all 
	on phone...)

	work with school newspaper to get an article or two up and running
	on amateur radio featuring "da station" and such.

	make certain you can put on a show during any major school open 
	house or festival...could be people aren't even aware of your 
	presence.

	hold a fox hunt.  get the club station up and work WAS (doesn't
	matter if it's been done before...).  hold a weekend class in
	amateur radio - sounds like if you get 1 you increase your club
	size by 50%....

	go after grad students and seniors that are working on communications
	projects yet aren't hams....might get some nibbles there.

	oh yeah, you have to do this w/o letting school slip.  obviously,
	that's got to come first...but even if you can only get one activity
	going you are ahead of the game (and as people come on board you can
	increase the activity load..).

73, bill wb9ivr
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