From the Desk of your ARRL North Texas Section Manager
Steven Lott Smith
Steve KG5VK
Greetings fellow ARRL North Texas Amateur Radio OPS
I am seeking a second term as your ARRL North Texas Section Manager
I have proudly served 17 Months as of this writing
I am asking for your continued confidence in me
by way of nominations for SM for the period of 2021/2022
I took office on April the 1st, 2019
During my Campaign to be your Section Manager
I pledged I would be a visible Section Manager,
I hope you feel I have done that and much more.
I am now seeking a second term.
Before taking office, I gladly took many phone calls,
and emails with questions and comments, I continue to talk with fellow
ARRL members on a weekly sometimes daily basis.
While I have not solved everyone's concerns. I have always listened and
followed up with answers to questions that I may not have had at the
time of initial contact.
I have been publishing a Monthly Newsletter since my appointment as your
Section Manager, this is a small part of the process of staying in
touch with the members I serve.
Some highlights of specific accomplishments:
- Appointed a Section Youth Coordinator, which is one of Youth.
Katherine Forson KT5KMF should, by now be well known to any ARRL NTX member.
She was highlighted in QST the same year she was appointed with a full page article
and continues to serve us proudly by sharing what Ham Radio is with both young and old.
- Asked and Received Nominees for an ARRL North Texas Ham Radio
Operator of the Year 2019/2020. Appointed an award committee from the
Section Management team to vote on the nominees. I presented the Award
to Jim Erickson KB0DBJ president of MJARS at their September 2019 club
meeting. (I will soon be forming another Team to vote on ARRL NTX Ham of
the Year 2020/2021 Nominees)
- Within the First Seven months of taking office as your Section Manager
I attended Nine Ham Fests, Seventeen Different Club Meetings, Two JOTA events and a visit to the EOC at the Plano Balloon fest. I also appeared at Eleven different ARRL FD sites. - I have attended the Belton Ham fest 3 times since taking Office,
this is significant because the ARRL members from that area had for
several years been in pursuit of being realigned by the ARRL with South
Texas, until I showed them the support they deserve.
- Began Monthly ARRL NTX Section Management Team Staff meetings, held virtually with Teleconferencing tools.
- As of October 2020 we now have Quarterly Zoom conferences with ARRL
NTX Affiliated Club officers and the ARRL NTX Section Staff members.
These meetings came from a suggestion received by one of the club
officers during a recent round table conference with myself and John
Robert Stratton N5AUS our ARRL West Gulf Division Director.
- I continue to attend club meetings on a Virtual basis with those
clubs that are having Virtual Meetings during this time of COVID19
Social Distancing
- Built a strong working relationship with Section Managers and their
Staff near and far from our Section, doing so betters our readiness to
respond to neighboring Sections that need our assistance with ECOM and
allows them willingness to assist us in times of need. I feel we can
always learn from others and therefore maintain contact with all the
fellow Section Managers within the ARRL West Gulf, and Delta Divisions,
as well as several Section Managers beyond those borders.
- I have assembled an outstanding team of assistants, from Greg Evans
K5GTX our Section Emergency Coordinator, to all the other Assistants on
the Section Management team. Our team works as a cohesive unit for the
betterment of our fellow ARRL members which we serve.
Our complete Team may be viewed at https://arrlntx.org/WP/about-us/ntx-officials/
In summary, I would appreciate your Nomination for another term as your Section Manager. This will allow myself and the ARRL North Texas Section Management team to continue the progress which will benefit all North Texas Amateur Radio OPS.
News Flash !!!
Thanks to Greg Evans K5GTX and Aaron Hulett K8AMH for many hours of work and planning, our team has just unveiled our new ARRL North Texas website https://arrlntx.org
The ARRL has announced that prospective Nominees may solicit Nominations with electronic signatures during this continued time of COVID19 Social Distancing.
I can email anyone that request it, one of these Electronic Nomination forms,
just drop me an email with the request KG5VK@ARRL.NET
Thank you for your time and your service as an ARRL member!
Steve KG5VK
Please call or Email me any time
318-470-9806
