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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

Nets

Scroll down for a list of Miami Valley Nets and a Ham Radio Calendar.

BARC Sunday Night Net

Remember to join your friends for the BARC weekly Net on Sunday evenings at 8:00 PM on the BARC 2m repeater, 147.045 (+) (118.8 Hz tone). The Net provides an opportunity between Club meetings to share news and information about Club and personal projects and activities. The monthly BARC Net Control Stations are:

First SundaySecond SundayThird SundayFourth SundayFifth Sunday
Larry Darner, KD8RERTink Siwecki, KD8NUAConnie Gifford, W8CSGPaul Sharp, WS8ROpen

Alternate: Joe Menchaca, Jr., KE8UUQ

If you would like to be a Net Control Station for the BARC Net, send an email to Paul Sharp, WS8R. You can download a copy of the Net Script by clicking here.

BARC Emergency Net

In the event of an actual, anticipated or potential emergency situation, MONITOR (or ACTIVATE) Greene County Information & Alerting Net on 147.165+(123 Hz) – Alt: 147.045

Dayton SKYWARN – Miami Valley/W. Cen. Ohio/IN White Water Valley

In the event of an actual, anticipated or potential emergency situation Dayton SKYWARN – Section Net on 146.64+(123.0 Hz) collects, relays and coordinates individual NWS SKYWARN Nets in 15+ Counties in W. Central Ohio (12+) and SW Indiana (3). Net activation is usually only upon request of NWS, Wilmington Ohio. Net Manager: KB8TCK.

Miami Valley Repeaters

CallFreqTone (Hz)LocationST/PRCounty
2m
WC8OH145.11000-67.0DaytonOHMontgomery
K8FBN145.41000-118.8FairbornOHGreene
K8MCA146.64000-123.0DaytonOHMontgomery
W8BI146.94000-123.0DaytonOHMontgomery
W8CYE145.49000-77.0SpringboroOHWarren
W8DGN147.04500+118.8BellbrookOHGreene
N8NQH (DMR)147.39000+CC: 13BellbrookOHGreene
W8DYY147.19500+MiamisburgOHMontgomery
W8GCA146.91000-BellbrookOHGreene
W8XRN147.16500+123.0XeniaOHGreene
WA8PLZ146.82000-77.0DaytonOHMontgomery
70 cm
K8FBN442.37500+118.8FairbornOHGreene
N8NQH (DMR)444.43750+CC; 11DaytonOHMontgomery
NO8I442.95000+118.8Huber HeightsOHMiami
W8AK442.92500+123.0Huber HeightsOHMontgomery
W8BI442.10000+123.0DaytonOHMontgomery
W8DGN (BAR)442.67500+118.8BellbrookOHGreene
W8DGN443.67500+118.8BellbrookOHGreene
W8DYY443.00000+88.5MiamisburgOHMontgomery
W8GUC444.66250+123.0KetteringOHMontgomery
W8XRN443.10000+123.0XeniaOHGreene
WG8ARS443.18750+123.0GermantownOHMontgomery
CallFrequencyTone (Hz)LocationST/PRCounty
KD3WCO-10145.01000simplexDaytonOHMontgomery
KD3WCO-10 (VARA)145.03000simplexDaytonOHMontgomery
W8GCA-10145.01000simplexSugarcreekOHGreene

Ham Radio Calendar

Click here.

Miami Valley Nets


Day		EST TimeDescriptionLast Date Verfied
Sunday7:00 PMNewcomers & Elmers Net – (Cincinnati) 146.670 (-) (123.0 PL)22-Feb
Sunday8:00 PMBARC Weekly Net – 147.045 (+) (118.8 Hz tone) [Alt = 443.675]22-Feb
Sunday9:00 PMMiami Co. Voice & Data Net (Data Net follows Voice Net) 145.230 (-) (no PL)22-Feb
Monday8:30 PMOhio DMR Net, 444.875+, Color Code 13, TG 3139, TS 1 website: tim-
yvonne.com/ham/dmr/index.htm		16-Nov
Tuesdays7:00 PMDayton Veterans Admin Amateur Radio Club Net (W8DVA) 145.110 (-)(67.0 PL)22-Feb
Tuesdays7:15 PMOhio ARES HF Net W8SGT Net Control at OEMA HQ Primary: 3902 KHz LSB (+/- QRM) Alternate: 7240 KHz LSB (+/- QRM)22-Feb
Tuesdays7:45 PM1945 Ohio Digital Emergency Net Primary: 3584.5 KHz USB (1500 WF) Alternate: 7072 KHz USB22-Feb
Tuesdays8:00 PMMoCoARES Voice Net, 8pm Tuesday, 146.64 PL 123.0, 444.250 PL 123.0, 2nd Tuesday of month no net on meeting nights (last Tues of month) Digital Net immediately follows Voice Net (MT63-2000L) website: www.mocoares.org09 Mar
Tuesdays9:00 PM2100 GCARES Net (Voice & Data) 146.910 (-)(no PL) [Alt = 442.725] website: gcares.net22-Feb
Wednesdays8:00 PMOhio District 3 ARES Net (West Central Ohio Regional Net) Primary: 145.110 (-) ( 67.0 PL) Alternate: 146.820 (-) ( 77.0 PL) website: ohd3ares.org22-Feb
Wednesdays8:00 PMBeginners Net: 2000 Beginners Net (Dayton Area) 444.875 (+) (94.8 PL) (Dayton Area) 444.875 (+) (94.8 PL)22-Feb
Wednesdays9:00 PMClark County Amateur Radio Club, RX 146.250 / TX 146.850 (-) PL Open web Page: https://www.clarkcountyarc.org/weekly_nets.php22-Feb
Weekdays M-F11:30 AMThe 11:30 DMR Net on TG 310557. Laid back, talk net. 147.390 MHz (+) Color Code 13, TG 2.
Daily10:30 AMOHIO SINGLE SIDEBAND NET – 3972.5 KHz22-Feb
Daily4:15 PMOHIO SINGLE SIDEBAND NET – 3972.5 KHz22-Feb
Daily6:15 PMOHIO SINGLE SIDEBAND NET – 3972.5 KHz22-Feb
ActivationN/AWhen activated, you will find us on 14.325 MHz by day and 7.268 MHz by night. https://www.hwn.org/ – Review Web Page: https://www.hwn.org/about-us/who-we-are.html22-Feb
ActivationN/ASATERN – Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network – See web page for information: https://www.satern.org/22-Feb
** Winlink Nets **
MondayAll DayFlorida Winlink Net, To:W4AKH : Subject: FL WL NET, first name, city, State abbreviation, Mode (VARA , ARDOP, any etc..) ,P2P (if p2p), optional RMS station and path – See website for details: https://w4akh.net/22 Mar
Tuesday6 am – 9 pmGCARES Winlink Net Send To: W8GCA, Cc: N8ADO – https://ohd3ares.org/wp/?p=4398 Net, please use the following format: Callsign, Name, City, County, ARES District, State, and How Connected (Frequency and Callsign of Winlink Gateway or Telnet).22-Feb
Wednesday6 am – 9 pmOhio Winlink Net: Send To: K8EAF, Cc: N8ADO – Enter K8EAF in the “To” field. Subject field “OH Winlink Net Check-in”. In the body field enter callsign, first name, city, county, state and via what mode. – http://www.ohd3ares.org/2020/08/04/winlink-nets/22-Feb
Wednesday Winlink Wednesday Check-In – To: KW6GB (or alternate NCS, as appropriate) Subject: Winlink Wednesday Check-In Message body: call sign, first name, city or town, county, state (HF or VHF, etc.) Web site: web at https://winlinkwednesday.net22-Feb
2nd Thursday6 am – 9 pmRed Cross EmComm Exercise – info: http://arc-emcomm-training.org/drills2.html#DrillInfo22-Feb

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