Join the YARC Discord here: https://discord.gg/MpQJadu
Suffice it to say, the Young Amateurs Radio Club experienced a split. From my experience, every ham radio club will experience a split in it’s lifetime. It seems to be the natural order of things.
The original YARC board met with the former YARC president (who owned the server and banned key members of the board) for several weeks of mediation and reconciliation, but ultimately no compromise could be met.
From out of the ashes, a phoenix shall rise.
The original YARC board regathered, lost interest in saving the old server, and created a new server. The old server still exists, but it’s down to a fraction of it’s activity and is being ran by the former YARC president has been deleted by the former YARC president.
The new YARC Discord server is now active, it’s just as busy as before, and it’s members are coming up with new activities to get back into the swing of things before the ‘event.’ It is open, friendly, inclusive, and has no tolerance for bullying and harmful trolling.
I left a parting message on the old server that read as follows:
Hello.
This message will probably get deleted and I will probably get banned in record time, but it doesn’t hurt to try to get a message out.
This server is a husk of its former glory that’s lost it’s vision, it’s leadership, and it’s heart. You may have noticed a lot of people have gotten banned, kicked, and had their messages deleted due to disparaging this server or linking to the new YARC server. This is because the server owner has been lurking trying to control the exodus of members while forming it into his own brand after the banning and de-perming of the YARC Board members.
I couldn’t be happier if it was to blossom into a vibrant young ham community. But at the end of the day, this isn’t YARC.
But given it’s an inactive server being led by questionable ethics and obscurity, I recommend the new YARC server that is being ran by the OG YARC founders, board and members. Go to https://discord.gg/MpQJadu if you want a healthy, active, inclusive, and lively server ran by fellow young hams who truly have your best interests at heart.
To avoid confusion of newcomers looking for the YARC server, I deleted several invite links to draw in new members from across the internet. Since the server has changed in many ways, those invite links aren’t valid anymore. I can’t tell which links were created after the change in leadership, and what version of the server went to which invite link, so I removed all but the owner’s personal invite link.
I would still like to serve as liaison between Young Hams and the rest of the amateur radio world (as I’ve always done) and a mediator between our two communities.
message edited to redact names
73, N0SSC
PS: To KZØP- Jesten and I are forever grateful for the Reese’s pumpkins, but I ran out 🙁 but thankfully it’s Easter so Reeses Eggs have flooded the market 🙂
