N4HCI, Bob Goodwin, Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer in Dec 2020 Election
Name:
Bob
Goodwin
QTH:
Newport News, VA
ECARS History:
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Member Since:
2014,
LIfetime member #4891
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Previous Offices / Duties:
Net Manager since Jan 2016, Temp Webmaster Jul 2016-Mar 2017,
Nomination/Election Committee member in 2016 & 2017, Secretary /
Treasurer since January 2018
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Current Net Control Operator:
Yes, three times weekly plus some
fill ins, also Net Manager
Other Amateur Radio History:
Ham since 1982.
Extra Class.
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Community Activities:
None
Personal Comments:
I have enjoyed being Secretary / Treasurer, where I have
1. worked with the Webmaster to convert the previous standalone
Access membership database to an on-line SQL database. The new SQL
database has been up and running since March 2018 and is performing very
well.
2. implemented a practice of same day response to membership
applications and renewals. The only exception to this has been
occasional travel.
3. implemented a monthly practice of sending a courtesy email to
those members whose memberships expire in the next month reminding them
that their membership is expiring and pointing out the web links
available to renew their membership if they so decide. Prior to
this, too many members' memberships were expiring without the member's
awareness.
4. developed and provide the Board a monthly membership report
detailing membership gains, losses, and demographics and a financial
report detailing the changes in the ECARS financial picture over the
month.
5. worked with the President to set up modest ARRL and FAR based
scholarships for deserving amateur radio operators.
6. have established a web based archive of official ECARS
documents in order to provide the ECARS management team access to past
Board decisions, financial records and history, etc.
I saw a T-shirt the other day that was emblazoned with the
statement "I thought growing old would take longer." That
seems to sum up my life. Along the way I obtained an Electrical
Engineering degree, worked for TRW as a sub-contractor to NASA in
Houston Tx for Apollo 11 & 12, was a Submarine officer ending my afloat
assignments as Commanding Officer of the USS James Monroe (SSBN 622),
retired from 25 years of naval service after instructor duty at the
Naval War College, and spent 15 years at Newport News Shipbuilding as an
engineering design manager. I retired in June 2013 and have been
filling my days since then doing home and car maintenance, learning to
program Arduinos, Raspberry Pi and in using HTTP and VB.net, ultimately developing some
personal and ECARS software. In late 2015, I started development of an
Access based Check In management program for Net Control Operators,
which was operational in mid-2016. I then repeated the project,
independent of Microsoft Access, as an executable program using vb.net
and Visual Studio 2017. Three or four of the Net Control Operators
now use this latter program. During my period as Temporary
Webmaster, I developed the website based ECARS Grant Application form,
the Membership data update form, and a Member Lookup by ECARS Number
utility. Because I operate remotely when away from home, I built an
Arduino project that emails me my external router IP address whenever it
changes so that my remote operation will not be impeded by an ISP
assignment of a different IP address. Hobbies include Photography,
reading, and kicking back.