Superstition ARC Membership

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Membership page

Membership in the Superstition Amateur Radio Club is open to anyone with an interest in amateur radio.  Our meetings are open to the public and you are welcome to visit with us.

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Club shirts

Club members should consider ordering a club shirt!  Details are in the Club shirts page.

An Outline of what is here

There is a lot here that you can do.  You may:

• Life Members need to file paperwork annually
• Check your membership status day or night.
• To Renew a Membership -- REVISED
• Pay your dues using PayPal^*Jerry
• Pay your dues via postal mail
• Pay your dues in person
• Fill out an electronic form online to join
• Download and print a paper application to join
• If you're a new ham, you may join free for a year

• We do ask that you update us annually by filling out an application form in order that we may keep our records current.
• We encourage you to sign up for our email newsletter, sent out approximately once per month.
• We encourage you to join us on the air during our 2-meter or 10-meter nets.

• Table of Contents

The Dues

Our dues structure is as follows:

• FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR NEW HAMS:
  • Single membership, One Year:  $0.00 - See below for details.
• ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP:
  • Single Membership:  $15.00 per year.
  • Family Membership:  $15.00 for one, plus $5.00 each additional club member in same household.  Typically $20.00 for family of two.
  • Student Membership:  $8.00 per year (Student through 12th Grade, for persons not already qualifying for Family Membership)
• LIFE MEMBERSHIP:
  • Single Life Membership:  $150.00
  • Family Life Membership:  $200.00

1. Effective June 2010, memberships are good for 12 months from the date of application. Membership dues are NO LONGER pro-rated.  See Bill 2010-04-12-01 in PDF for the Board action.
2. A copy of the Constitution and ByLaws are provided here on the site in PDF format.  You are encouraged to review the page About the Superstition Amateur Radio Club.
3. Please subscribe to the Superstition ARC Mailing List for the club newsletter.
4. When provided by the Secretary, the General Meeting Minutes will be on the site.
5. Arrangements can be made for members without Internet access to the site.

NEW HAMS:  FREE Membership

• Bill 2010-07-20-01 in PDF

If you earned either a US or Canadian Amateur Radio License, and were not a previous license holder, then you are entitled to one year's free membership from the date of issue on the U.S. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination issued by the VE Team, or Canadian equivalent, expiring on the one year anniversary of the certificate.

1. Scan your U.S. CSCE or Canadian equivalent certificate and email it to the Membership Committee as either a .jpeg, .jpg, .png or .pdf file.  Please do not send us a Windows bitmap (.bmp) file.
2. Then join electronically using this online application form.  In the Paypal field, enter 'NEW HAM'.  We will then verify your certificate and activate your newly established membership account.

Life Members need to File Paperwork Annually

We ask our Life Members to drop us an email to the Membership Committee to advise us of your current name, call, address, class of license, and optionally your telephone number.  I just went through this process in "renewing" my life membership for 2011.  I wrote a summary of my involvement in the club since 1976, which you may optionally do in your email.  This gives the newer members who are serving in the committee in any given year a little handle on the life experiences of their fellow members.

We want to do some re-working of our database search engine so that it does not report you as "expired," and you say, "Since when did my name appear in the obituary?"!

^{--Larry, WB7C}

Life Members will not be removed from the membership roster; however, to remain on the active roster and to vote, Life Members must contact the membership committee via Email or via the club address, once a year, and upon request, provide their Life Membership Certificate to the Committee to keep their name on the active roster.

1. Note, no Life Member will ever be denied the right to vote provided they are able to present evidence of their membership on election day.
2. A Life member is defined as anyone who has paid dues pursuant to Article II of the By-Laws, or been voted in by the General Membership; and has received a certificate of Life Membership from the Club.

Verify Your Existing Membership Status

Use this form to verify your current membership status.

We will show Life Members as "expiring" at the start of the coming year, or as "expired" if we have not heard from you.  A better choice of words would be "inactive," but the computer programmer that set this up didn't think of that!  :)

To Renew a Membership -- REVISED

Dave, K7AV asks that you NOT use the electronic Join form which creates a duplicate record in the database.  Instead, please mail your dues in, deliver them in person or use PayPal as follows:

1. Donate the dues via PayPal.
2. In the Comments to Vendor Box, state that this is membership dues, then include the type of membership and your name.
3. Enter the PayPal Confirmation Number in an email to the Membership Committee, found on Our Contact Page.

You may, at your option, download and print the Membership Application and Renewal form and fill it out in advance for mailing or delivery in person.

To Join the Club

• IN PERSON
  • You may, at your option, download and print the Membership Application and Renewal form and fill it out in advance.
    • At the General Meeting, we ask that you pay with a check or money order ONLY, made payable to the Superstition Amateur Radio Club, so that we have a paper trail and you have a proof of payment.  We will enroll you on site.  (While it is our intentions to have someone at every meeting, things do happen and it is possible that you arrive and there is no one who can create a membership in the computer for you.)
    • Best times to handle the transaction during the meeting is before the meeting presentation, between 6:45 and 7:00 pm, or during the break between the Presentation and start of Business, about 7:45 to 8:00 pm.
    • The Meeting Information page contains links to a listing of all of the meetings of the club, together with directions to the meeting.

• BY MAIL
  • Please download and print the Membership Application and Renewal form.  Mail the completed form with your check or money order for membership dues to the club address:

• BY COMPUTER
  • We save the best for last.  You can fill out an online application form here on the site, to join, and use PayPal to pay your membership dues.

Step-By-Step

1. Simply make the payment using PayPal on the Join-up form page and make a note of your PayPal Confirmation Number for the next step.
   1. Donate the dues via PayPal. 
   2. In the Comments to Vendor Box, state that this is membership dues, then include the type of membership and your name.
2. Enter the PayPal Confirmation Number in the blue Join-up form.
3. Once you've made the payment and filled out and submitted the form, you will INSTANTLY receive your membership ID number!  (All memberships are subject to review and approval by the Superstition Amateur Radio Club).  Your account will be given a valid expiration date from one year of payment (Except Life time applications) once payment is verified.

To get started, please go to the Join-up form.