Club Directory Almost Ready

We have spent nearly 4 hours thus far creating and modifying the Club Directory and already it is the best directory of all 71 arrl sections in the USA! There is still about 2 more hours of work remaining. The only two items remaining is linking the calendar system to the directory and getting the clubs to update their records, many have not updated in over 1500 days!

To start with, some user may want to view very basic information in tabular form, so we added a datagrid view option in the dropdown at the top right of the page.

Then we have the cards view also, note that even in datagrid view mode that if you click on a club name it will force it to go to cards view because there is simply too much information to display in a horizontal manner. On the cards view there are few things to note. Not all clubs will have the same information, for example they may not have the same number of repeaters or some may not offer any Ham Exams, then too some may not want to disclose a phone number etc.

Another example of cards not all displaying the same is at the top of the clubs that have been featured in our Club Spotlight series (celebrating arrl’s 2026 year of the clubs) will have a button to READ SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW as well as a media player to play the podcast episode in which the club was the topic of. Club’s that have not yet been featured will not have those elements. But don’t worry our goal is to put all 81 clubs in our section to the spotlight before 2027 (if they comply).

If you don’t know where the club is you can click on the district number at the top right and the map will show what counties are in the club’s district.

Towards the lower half of the card is the area we are still working on. Below the club logo (or the placehoder where the logo should be) there are some buttons. The Meeting Schedule, Event Schedule, and Net Schedule are not functioning yet as we are working at linking those to our calendar system. The Club Website, Newsletter, Email Group and Repeater buttons will be highlighted and clickable if the club has submitted the information.

The next phase is we need to contact the 80+ clubs and get them to update their information, 5 years since last update is not acceptable. That is the reason most do not have repeater frequencies yet. But a few do and that looks like the image below when they do.

Not much more to say on the Club Directory. We just wanted you to know that work is being done, it just isn’t as fast as I would like it to be (small team still). I hope you all will find the resource valuable soon, but until we get the clubs to update their information, we essentially have just prepared the shell – waiting for it to get filled.