Club years

The Niagara Peninsula Amateur Radio Club came into existence in 1948.

All of the work of documenting the club history during the first years was done by club member Jim Thompson.

I am now the club historian as Jim has retired from the job after writing his book "Niagara Peninsula Amateur Radio Club, VE3VM, 1948 to 2008". I am doing my best to collect information about the club from 2008 forward. My issue is I didn't join the club until 2011-2012. Nothing was really being saved, or documented at that time. I became a member of the Board of Directors shortly after joining and immediately attempted to establish an electronic library for the club for filing club data and documents. The software I implemented was OpenKM and it has worked wonderfully.

Prior to May 11, 2019, it became apparent, that the current NPARC executive was unhappy with the IT services that were being provided by my company at no charge to the club. Through the forming of an 'IT' Committee at the wish of the President, Steve Riddle, VA3FLF, I realized that despite it being said that there was 'nothing personal' about the forming of this IT Committee, I realized that I was essentially being fired/replaced. Therefore on May 11, 2019, I filed my resignation along with my objections to the direction the 'IT' committee was headed and with the choices they were recommending. One such recommendation was to scrap the use of OpenKM to track and catalog all club materials. The recommended choice was to use a flat-file, non-indexed system on Google Drive. (smh)

I have since decided to continue on with the position of Club Historian. This site though is being provided solely by myself, Clayton Mattatall, VE3AUO, through my company, Techno Rising and is NOT part of the NPARC infrastructure. This is a personal and private site and is being maintained by me and is not under the control of the NPARC.

Clayton, VE3AUO (talk) 06:34, 31 August 2019 (EDT)

Here is a list of the club years. As a year becomes documented or some material becomes available, you will be able to select that year. Please be patient as I rebuild this site after hackers destroyed the first.

Years
								1948	1949
1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	1955	1956	1957	1958	2009
1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	2019