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Help — Using the BARC Website

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Finding Your Way Around

  • The top menu has dropdowns. Hover over (or tap, on a phone) Home, Events & Programs, Resources, Ham News! or Members to see the pages underneath.
  • Home holds the club's own information: About BARC, Officers & Coordinators, Bylaws, Past Membership Meetings (with Meeting Minutes under it), the Communication Center, Other Club Documents, and the Privacy Policy.
  • Events & Programs has two columns: On the Air (Field Day with its Field Day Logs, Parks on the Air, Digital Radio, Hamfests, Public Service & EmComm) and Club Programs (Tech Night, Presentations, Educational Programs, Other Area Clubs, Ham Radio Reference Links).
  • Resources has the Photo Gallery and Field Day Videos — a photo-and-music video for every Field Day since 2012, to watch online or download.
  • Repeaters & Nets and Contesting/QSOs/QSL/DX go straight to their own pages.
  • The amber items — Newsletter, Calendar and Ham News! — change most often.
  • Most pages have a left-hand sidebar with related pages. Breadcrumbs above each title ("Home › Page") show where you are.
  • On phones and tablets the menu folds into the ☰ button in the upper right.

News, Newsletter & Documents

Ham News!
  • Headlines shows the latest stories from ARRL News, Amateur Radio Weekly, DXZone, SDR & Digital Radio, the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Amateur Radio Newsline. Each list updates by itself; click a headline to read the full story on the source's site.
  • DX Section shows live DX cluster spots, updated every minute. Pick a band or mode, or tick Hide US & Canada for real DX. Click a call sign to look it up on QRZ.
Newsletter (Full Quieting)

The Newsletter page shows the current issue at the top and every issue from this year under Recent Issues — new issues appear automatically. Older issues are in the Archive by year. Each issue has Read Online (opens the PDF) and Download. The sidebar's Article Index lists every article that has run in Full Quieting.

Presentations

The Presentations page (Events & Programs › Club Programs) is a searchable library of past club presentations. Search by title or presenter, click a category to open it, and use the PDF button to view a file. Have a topic idea? Use Submit a Topic in its sidebar.

Meetings, Minutes & Club Documents

Home › Past Membership Meetings lists past meeting presentations by year, with Meeting Minutes beneath it. Bylaws and other official documents are under the same Home menu.

Members: Logging In & Out

  • Open Members › Member Login and sign in with your username and password. If your account was set up from the club roster, your username is your first initial + last name, all lowercase (for example jadams).
  • First time, or forgot your password? Use Members › Reset Password and enter the email address the club has on file. A link to set a new password arrives by email — check your spam folder if you don't see it.
  • Once you're logged in, the Members menu shows Member Portal, My Profile, Member Directory and Log out.
  • When you're finished, choose Members › Log out — especially on a shared or public computer.

Members: Portal, Profile & Directory

Member Portal is your members-only home page: a welcome with your membership status, the What's New box, meeting minutes, forms and documents, net-control resources, and the officers.

My Profile is your club record. Keep your contact details, call sign, license class and expiration, ARRL membership and interests up to date, change your password in the Account card (which also shows your username), and click Save profile. The Membership Details section is kept by the Membership Coordinator — contact them if anything there looks wrong.

Member Directory lists current members with call sign, license class, member type, email, phone and city. You can hide your email, phone or city — or leave the directory entirely — in the Member Directory card on My Profile. Only logged-in, current members can see the directory.

The badge next to your name shows your status:

  • Active — paid up for this year
  • Pending approval — a new application waiting for the Membership Coordinator
  • Renewal due — January and February, when last year's membership has ended; renew by March 1
  • Expired — not renewed by March 1; members-only pages are closed until you renew

Joining & Renewing

Join: choose Members › Join BARC. Dues are $15 individual or $18 family (your whole household). Membership runs January through December; join after July and dues are half price. Newly licensed hams can choose a free first year or a low-cost handheld radio.

Renew: dues for the coming year can be paid from November and must be paid by March 1. Pay at a monthly meeting, by PayPal (Friends & Family) to treasurer@bellbrookarc.org, or mail a check made out to BARC to BARC Treasurer, P.O. Box 73, Bellbrook, OH 45305. Your status updates once the Membership Coordinator records the payment.

Officers: Creating a Post

  1. Log in at bellbrookarc.org/wp/wp-admin, then choose Posts → Add New.
  2. Add a title and your text. Use + → Image for photos; select words and press Ctrl+K to add a link.
  3. On the right, pick a Category (tick What's New to show it on the Member Portal), set a Featured Image, and write a short Excerpt — that's the summary shown in post lists.
  4. Preview, then Publish (or Schedule for a later date). Edit later from Posts → All Posts.

Membership Coordinators

You see this section because you manage membership. Members don't.

Members › Membership Dashboard is your workspace:

  • Tiles at the top count members by status (Active, Renewal due, Pending, Expired and so on). Click one to list those members. Search always looks through every member, by name, call sign, email or phone.
  • New applicants arrive as Pending. Use Approve or Reject. Approving opens the members-only pages to them and emails them a welcome.
  • Open any member by clicking their name. You can edit everything, including the Membership Details card: paid-through year, member type, household link, approval status, notes and payment history.
  • Record a payment from the member's record. The rates box shows $15 / $18 and the half-price rule after July. Payments made in November or December count toward the next year. A household payment renews every linked family member.
  • Families: each person has their own record. Anyone with their own email gets their own login; others are linked to the household's primary member.
How status is worked out
  • Active through December 31 of the paid-through year · Renewal due January–February · Expired from March 1 · Life members never expire.
Reports

The Reports tab has nine reports — Current Active Members, Inactive/Expired, New Members, Members by Type, Renewals/Expiration, Contact List, Membership History, Members Missing Information and Membership Counts. Each one can be printed or downloaded as a CSV for Excel. The dashboard's roster CSV exports every member and field — a good monthly backup.

The Contact List shows details members have hidden in the directory. Keep printouts and CSV files private.

Site Administrators

Only administrators see this section. Before any big change, take a WPvivid backup.
Everyday jobs
  • Newsletter: upload each issue to the /newsletter/ folder with File Manager, named Full_Quieting_MonthYear.pdf (e.g. Full_Quieting_November2026.pdf). It appears automatically. In December, add the year's issues to the Archive widget.
  • Field Day Videos: upload each video to the /videos/ folder named in lowercase, YEAR-barc-field-day.mp4 (e.g. 2025-barc-field-day.mp4). It appears automatically.
  • Ham News feeds: add a feed in Aggregator › Sources, then a Display for it (5 items, no pagination), and paste its shortcode into a new card in the Ham News Shortcode widget.
  • After editing a page: click Update, then LiteSpeed Cache › Purge All, and check it in a private window.
  • Roster import (CSV) is at the bottom of the Membership Dashboard, visible to admins only.
Page-building rules
  • Standard page: Container 1 (title bar + styles), Container 2 row with a 210px sidebar and a content column set to Size: Default — never Grow.
  • Shortcodes go in Shortcode widgets, never HTML widgets. Internal links use /wp/page-slug/ with the trailing slash.
  • Members-only pages: edit the page, set Simple WP Membership Protection to Yes, tick all levels.
Security & settings
  • Wordfence: two-factor login is required for administrators. Locked-out users are unblocked under Wordfence › Tools › Blocking.
  • Email Hold snippet: while active, no email reaches members. Blocked messages are listed under Tools › BARC Email Hold. Deactivate it to send member email.
  • An admin account may also be a member only at the Administrator level (its WordPress role must stay Administrator — any other level would demote the account at login). Log in as admin at /wp/wp-admin/, not the Member Login form, so two-factor login applies.

Something not working? Let us know — no detail is too small.
Email the webmaster — webmaster@bellbrookarc.org

Category: Tech Night

UPDATE: Tech Night for January

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Updated Date/Time for January! Sunday, January 26, 2025  1:30 PM – SB-101 project – Dan, N8IE Location: BARC club House !:00 – Pre-Meeting show accomplishments and technical questions.               1:30 – Presentation: SB-101 project – Dan, N8IE 2025 Meetings We’re going to do as many Labs / hands on sessions as possible I recently received […]

Digital Clock Build Fun

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Last Wednesday, October 23, BARC held its monthly Tech NIght led by Stu Holzer, K8ST. This month, BARC members got to improve their soldering skills by building a digital clock circuit. This was Part 1 of a two part Tech Night with Part 2 being next Wednesday, October 30. The crowd was large and focused […]

Build a Digital Clock Circuit

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Good opportunity to complete a circuit project from start to finish. This is the 1st of two sessions. It does not matter what your current skills to solder components. If you have a soldering pencil, please bring it. If you would like as a coach please come join us. This is the session If your […]

Foxhunting Presentation Available

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Bob Frey, WA6EZV, made a very informative presentation on Foxhunting with lots of detailed descriptions and recommendations. You can download the presentation by going to the Tech Night page under Programs or by clicking here.

Radio-Orienteering for Tech Night

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The September BARC Tech Night will be on Wednesdaty, September 25, at 7:00 pm at the clubhouse. The topic will be: Learn how to get started on mobile or on-foot (Radio-Orienteering or Foxhunts) transmitter hunts. Tim N8NQH

July Tech Night – Need Head Count!

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Please email Jim Gifford, Tim Procuniar, and Bob French if you plan to attend. We want to make sure we have a kit for you. There is a small charge for the kit. Presentation: Build Budget Code Practice Oscillator Scheduled Date / Time: Wednesday July 31, 2024 07:00 PM  Location: BARC Clubhouse Presenter: Tim Procuniar, […]

Tech Night – The NanoVNA

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Presentation: The NanoVNA – more than just an SWR meter Scheduled Date / Time: Wednesday June 26th 07:00 PM  Location: BARC Clubhouse Presenter: Mike Suhar, W8RKO Presentation Topics to discuss include:    1.  Software that works with the NanoVNA    2.  How improper calibration and device-under-test (DUT) hookup can lead you astray    3.  Using […]

May Tech Night Cancelled/Future Meetings

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May 22, 2024  – No meeting since May Is very busy radio months with conflicts. June 26, 2024 – The NanoVNA – more than just an SWR meter – Presenter Mike Suhar, W8RKO This presentation is valid for other Vector Network Analyzers.  Not just the Nano. July 25th – TBD Future Tech Night: Budget Code Practice […]

April Tech Night

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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, […]

Tech Night February 28 at 7:00 PM

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The next Tech Night is Wednesday, February 28, at 7:00 pm at the clubhouse. Tim Procuniar, N8NQH, will present in-depth info on the spurious nature  of some Chinese radios, along with a live demonstration.  After the presentation, free testing of any handheld radio to determine if it has spurious output or not.  The actual presentation […]