We launched Ham Community in 2018 and quickly grew to several thousand members. The goal was to provide a site where ‘Elmers’ could collaborate, to help the amateur radio community by making themselves available. The premise was – and still is — that the only place we currently find reliable, one-on-one expert advice is in our clubs; this is great and must continue. But what if there was a place that brought together experts from all over the world whereby you might have access to a propagation expert from Boston but also an antenna guying expert from Prague, or even a tube historian from Sydney. The problem with Ham Community V1 was ‘bloatware’. The site fell into the ‘squirrel’ syndrome, chasing after every next shiny thing. The result was one site that was trying to do too much.

Let’s start fresh: Ham Community V2.0. The goal is to grow the number of expert operators so that the conversations can be constantly elevated rather than chasing the lowest common denominator.

Also, while making the new Ham Community lighter, we saw it as an opportunity to spin off some of the bloat into new satellite sites. There are several. To name a few, there is Ham Exchange, the site you are on right now. It is dedicated to the exchange of goods and services. There is Ham History, preserving some of our past. There is Ham Census, helping shape the future of ham radio. In short, Ham Community is now the umbrella site of a growing series of sites that havev