This page exists because a website that shows only what it has is easy to mistake for a website that shows everything. The Society has met since its founding on 7 July 1976, and this archive begins in 1998, with its website. What follows is an honest account of what is here, what is not, and why.
What the archive holds
267 documents, spanning 1998 to 2024: 127 newsletters, 82 sets of meeting minutes, 52 treasurer's reports and 6 year-end reports. The newest of them is dated January 2024. Every one of those figures is counted out of the archive as this page loads, so this page cannot drift away from the record it describes.
Year by year
Every year from 1998 to 2024 holds at least one document. Where a year is thin — one document, or two — it is thin because that is all that survives, not because this website left anything out. The table below is the whole record, year by year.
| Year | Documents |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 21 |
| 2021 | 21 |
| 2022 | 21 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2024 | 1 |
Nothing the Society holds is left out
Every file the old website served, and every file in the folder the webmaster built it from, is on this site: the documents by other authors that used to be held back, the Field Day videos, the member lists, the webmaster’s design files, and every page of the old site, both as ks0man.com served it and as the webmaster kept it. Newsletters, minutes and reports are in the archive; everything else is on the club files page, by topic.
Linked from the old site, and never on it
A few links on ks0man.com, and in the pages of the webmaster’s folder, pointed at files that were never uploaded or were taken down before this migration began. They are not in the folder either, so they are gone at the source:
- a photograph of the Sale Barn Cafe, from the breakfast page
- an index page for the 1997 Field Day gallery, whose nine photographs are all here
Salina_Hamfest_2015.pdf, the “Hamfest Mailer” in the announcements file. The folder has the mailer for the 2015 Salina hamfest under another name, and that link now opens it.- the other pages of the Society’s GeoCities site (classes, club, guide, horse, info, member, news, silent, testing and weather) and six of its pictures, linked from its home page. GeoCities closed in 2009, and they were never copied to ks0man.com.
Five more were never the Society’s files to lose. The old links page pointed at five documents on other sites, and the home page at one of them, but the links lost the sites’ names on the way to ks0man.com, so they never opened. The webmaster’s own copy of the links page has the full addresses, and the old links page and the old home page here use them:
- a January 2016 spectrum wall chart, at the NTIA
- an antenna and transmatch field manual,
k0s_field_manual.pdf, at pacarc.org - “A Learning Approach to Achieve QRQ”, a white paper on learning Morse at speed, at Morse Code Ninja
- “Tips and Tonics for Healthier Radio Clubs”, an article on running a radio club, at the ARRL
- a note on ADSL filters, at qso365.co.uk
Everything else is genuinely gone
The archive was assembled from the Society’s old website, which is itself a partial record. Newsletters that were never posted, minutes taken on paper and never typed up, photographs in a shoebox — none of that is here, and no amount of careful migration can conjure it. The record starts where the website’s record starts.
If you have something we do not
A newsletter in a drawer, minutes on a floppy disk, a photograph of Field Day 1986 with people in it who can still be named: these are the things that close a gap. Send them, or ask how, through the contact page. A scan is enough; the Society would rather have a bad photograph of a good document than neither.