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:

  1. Go to bellbrookarc.org/wp/wp-admin and log in with your username and password.
  2. In the left-hand menu, click Posts → Add New.
  3. Give your post a title, then write your content in the main box below it.
  4. To add a photo, click the + button in the content area and choose Image.
  5. On the right-hand side, assign a Category and set a Featured Image.
  6. Click Publish when ready — or Preview first to check how it looks.
  7. 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

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Privacy Policy

How Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club collects, uses, and protects your information — W8DGN
This policy explains what information Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club (BARC) collects through this website, how we use it, and the choices you have. BARC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — we don't sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Last updated: August 2026

Information We Collect

When you register for membership through our Join BARC form, we collect the information needed to process your membership and keep our records current: name, call sign and license class, mailing address, email address, home and cell phone numbers, ARRL membership status, and any areas of interest or comments you choose to share.

When you contact us through a contact form on this site, we collect your name, email address, and the message you send.

When you browse the site, standard technical information may be logged by our hosting provider (such as IP address and browser type) for security and site performance purposes — this is not used to personally identify visitors.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information you provide to:

  • Process and maintain your BARC membership
  • Send club communications, newsletters, and announcements (only if you opt in)
  • Maintain our annual Club Directory, distributed to current members only
  • Respond to questions or requests submitted through our contact form
  • Coordinate club activities such as Field Day, meetings, and events

We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not sell or share it with third-party marketers.

Member Directory

Inclusion in the online Member Directory is opt-in only. You control whether your name, call sign, email, and phone numbers appear there through the "Show in Directory" setting on your My Profile page.

The Member Directory is only visible to logged-in, current BARC members — it is not publicly accessible. You can update your opt-in preference at any time by logging in and editing your profile.

Third-Party Services

This site uses a small number of third-party services to provide certain features:

  • Google Calendar — our homepage and calendar page display upcoming club events pulled from a public Google Calendar. This does not involve sending any of your personal information to Google.
  • PayPal — if you choose to pay membership dues via PayPal, that transaction is handled entirely by PayPal under their own privacy policy; BARC does not receive or store your payment card details.
  • Our web hosting provider — like any website, ours runs on a hosting server that may log basic technical/security information as described above.

We do not use third-party advertising networks or sell visitor data to data brokers.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on one of our posts, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in a cookie so you don't have to re-enter them next time. These cookies last one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we also set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days (two weeks if you select "Remember Me"), and screen-option cookies last one year. Logging out removes your login cookies.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, plus the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a "hash") may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile picture registered there. Gravatar's own privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy. If your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture is visible publicly alongside your comment.

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely, so we can recognize and approve legitimate follow-up comments automatically rather than holding every comment for manual review. Comments may also be checked through an automated spam-detection service.

Embedded Content

Some pages on this site may include embedded content from other websites (for example, our calendar of events). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website directly — it may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that content, especially if you're logged into an account on that other site.

Password Resets

If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email as a standard WordPress security measure.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you register as a member, we store the personal information in your profile for as long as you remain registered on the site. You can see, edit, or delete most of this information at any time by logging in and visiting My Profile (your username cannot be changed). Site administrators can also access and edit this information as needed to manage the club roster.

Your Rights & Choices

As a BARC member, you can:

  • View and update your personal information at any time by logging in and visiting My Profile
  • Opt in or out of the Member Directory listing at any time
  • Opt in or out of club email communications
  • Request an exported copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Request that we erase your personal data, except where we're required to retain it for administrative, legal, or security purposes

To make a data export or deletion request, contact us using the information below.

Children's Privacy

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental involvement. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will remove it.

Questions About This Policy

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or want to review, correct, or delete your information, please contact us:

Bellbrook Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 73, Bellbrook, OH 45305
Email: webmaster@bellbrookarc.org

This policy may be updated from time to time. Significant changes will be announced to the membership.