April 2024 – Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club

Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club

W8DGN · Bellbrook, Ohio

Using the BARC Website

Finding Your Way Around

A few things about the site's navigation that are worth knowing:

The top menu has dropdowns. Hover over (or tap, on mobile) "Home," "Events & Programs," or "Resources" to see a list of sub-pages open underneath.
"Events & Programs" has a wider menu with two columns — "On the Air" activities (Repeaters, POTA, Digital Radio, Contesting, etc.) on one side, "Club Programs" (Field Day, Tech Night, Presentations, etc.) on the other.
Most content pages have their own left-hand sidebar with related pages grouped together. If you're looking for something related to the page you're on, check the sidebar first.
Breadcrumbs (the small "Home › Section › Page" trail at the top of most pages) show you where you are and let you jump back up a level.
On mobile, the top menu collapses into a hamburger icon (☰) in the upper right — tap it to open the full navigation.

Downloading Documents

Club Presentations

The Presentations & Documents page (under Events & Programs → Club Programs) has a searchable library of past club presentations, organized into categories like Field Day, Antennas, Digital Modes, and more.

Use the search box at the top to find something by title or presenter name.
Click any category heading to expand or collapse that group.
Each document has a PDF button — click it to open the file in a new tab.

Newsletter (Full Quieting)

The Newsletter page always shows the current issue front and center, plus the 5 most recent issues below it. Each issue has two options:

Read Online — opens the PDF in a new browser tab
Download — saves the PDF directly to your device

There's also a highlighted Article Index link in the sidebar — a spreadsheet listing every article that's ever run in Full Quieting.

Club Documents

Bylaws, officer info, and other official club documents live under Home → About BARC in the top menu, with their own sidebar to move between them.

Submitting a Presentation

Have an idea for a Tech Night topic or a monthly meeting presentation? On the Presentations & Documents page, look for "Submit a Topic" in the sidebar. Clicking it opens a short form right on the page — fill in your name, callsign, presentation title, and a bit about what you'd like to cover, and it goes straight to the Programs Coordinator.

Logging In & Passwords

🔧 Coming soon. A full member login area — with password management, an online member directory, and profile settings — is planned as the next phase of the website project. It isn't live yet. We'll announce it once it's ready.

For Officers: Creating a Post

If you've been given an account with posting access, here's how to publish something to the site:

Go to bellbrookarc.org/wp/wp-admin and log in with your username and password.
In the left-hand menu, click Posts → Add New.
Give your post a title, then write your content in the main box below it.
To add a photo, click the + button in the content area and choose Image.
On the right-hand side, assign a Category and set a Featured Image.
Click Publish when ready — or Preview first to check how it looks.
To edit later, go to Posts → All Posts and click Edit.

Not sure if you have posting access, or need an account set up? Contact the webmaster below.

Something not working? Let us know — no detail is too small.
Doug Hayward, K8DRH — dhayward@systemspoint.com

Little Miami River Cleanup and Festival

The Little Miami River Cleanup is part of the Little Miami River Festival Celebration on June 29, 2024. That is the weekend after Field Day. As part of the celebration, the morning activities include cleanup of debris on the Little Miami River. The Little Miami Network has yet to complete their plans for each section on the river. However, the morning […]

April Tech Night

The BARC April Tech Night will be held Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 7:00 pm at the clubhouse. This month’s topic will be: “Crimp Coax Connectors and Sealing Workshop” Complete step-by-step instructions; every club member attending can install a connector. The club will furnish the connectors and supplies. If you have your own coax crimp tool, […]

Sugar Maple Festival Parade

The Bellbrook Sugar Maple Festival Parade will be held next Saturday, April 20, 2024. The parade is one of BARC’s two major Public Service Events. We need lots of operators to be stationed along the parade route and report issues and parade status as requested by net control. This is a great event for new […]

Rookie Roundup

The ARRL Rookie Roundup Contest is next Sunday, April 21, 2024, from 2:00 pm until 8:00 pm. We will open the clubhouse at 2:00 pm for the contest and would especially like to invite all new hams to try out the HF bands and learn about contesting. This is great preparation for the upcoming Field […]