March Issue: The Logger's Bark Magazine

I took over as editor and publisher of our club's newsletter in January. It was just your standard newsletter like most clubs produce. But I have a long background in graphics and as a writer, so when I took over the challenge as editor, I decided to make it something special.... a full-blown magazine, with club news interspersed of course, but lots of feature content. Some written by contributors in the club, some from friends here on QRZ, and a large quantity I produce myself.

QRZ was very gracious in January to donate 15 QRZ-1 Explorer radios to a local event, called Camp Quest Northwest, where a group of teenage campers and their adult counselors took up residence in the W7DK clubhouse for a weekend. The goal was to expose them to radio, help them study for their Technician exams, and ultimately take their test with the club's VE team. If they passed, they would receive a QRZ-1. The club paid for all of the training materials and waived the VE fees for the students.

Recently I presented the resulting article of this fabulous event to my fellow staff at QRZ, and the response was overwhelming to start publishing the Logger's Bark on the front page of QRZ each month as another fun resource for hams to read.

The March issue is the inaugural edition for the site. The article about Camp Quest Northwest begins on page 53 if you want to jump right to it. One thing you'll notice is I've redacted all the Board and General Meeting minutes, as they aren't very relevant outside the club. So after you view the first columns and such, the rest of the magazine picks up at page 31. Future editions, the minutes will be at the end, since they're linked to the Table of Contents and thus easy to find.

I hope you enjoy reading this publication.... and be watching for the April edition which will have a lot of fun surprises in store.

A big thanks to QRZ for the opportunity to post The Logger's Bark here on the site.

Here is the download link: https://static.qrz.com/w7dk/March2024-QRZ-compressed.r1.pdf

(Please only download it from this link - not from the club site - the club can't support the bandwidth - this will be GREATLY appreciated! - but DO feel free to visit the site by all means - just only download the newsletter magazine from the QRZ link)



73
Dave
W7UUU

 

It's very gracious of QRZ to ask me.... I didn't approach them. I'm honored.

AND the fact that QRZ hosts the huge file directly.

Thanks QRZ

Dave
W7UUU