![Cover of the 1994-06 issue of the beacon newsletter. Cover prominently mentions Field Day.](https://www.albemarleradio.org/wp-content/uploads/cover199406-0.jpg)
I have scanned and uploaded 13 years of past newsletters, 1992-2004. The newsletters are an important part of the documentation of the clubs history. They include :
- Minutes of meetings
- Descriptions of past Field Days and other contests and operating events
- Information about past responses to emergencies
- History of our repeaters
- Information about past VE sessions
- Information about our past public service events
- Information about our interaction with served agencies
- Silent Key obituaries
- Club financial business
- Who presented what and when
- Past Foxhunts
- Donations
- New Members – when they joined
- Club Calendar
- Who held elected offices, and when
- Club Property
- Member biographies
- A record of member’s legacy (for family genealogists)
- Articles on technology and technique
- 10 or 20 Years ago today…
As many of you know, back during the changing of the guard from last years leadership to this years, I encountered 4 binders worth of back issues of the beacon and although back issues of the beacon are online back to 2005, the contents of several of these binders were not found on the website.… Read the rest