● Introduction & Index ● What is PR ● Job Expectations ● Types of Media ● Building Relationships ● Media, Hams & FCC Rules ● The Basic News Release ● Interviews and Live ● Making your own show ● Easy P.R. ● Public Service Events ● Piggy-back to Events ● Pictures NOW! ● P.R. Research Aids ● Making Friends ● ARES® PIO ● Final Exam Information Back

## Sample Fact Sheet A good handout is useful with the press and at events such as Field Day or at occasions where you speak about Amateur Radio. This may include speaking at service clubs, PTA meetings, Toastmasters or at similar venues. The handout gives your audience a means by which to take "the next step" which is hopefully, active involvement in ham radio! Would you enjoy a hobby that will last a lifetime? A hobby that will expand your horizons and challenge your intellect, one that will help you build lasting friendships at home and even around the world? Are you looking for ways to become involved in worthwhile community service? Then we have something unique and exciting to offer. WELCOME TO THE HAMRAD AMATEUR RADIO CLUB! Amateur Radio is a challenging high-tech hobby offering service to the community, life-long opportunities for learning and the excitement of communicating with other Amateur Radio operators around the world. Amateur radio operators today can explore many different communications modes, including all the more familiar methods of voice, computer and Morse communication as well as more exotic techniques involving Amateur Radio television, earth-satellite and moonbounce communications. The Hamrad Amateur Radio Club, founded in 1968, is a general interest radio club having over 125 members. Although membership is concentrated in the greater Amok City area, the club's members also come from many other areas in and around Amok County. While an Amateur Radio license is required for full voting membership in the club, unlicensed individuals are invited to join as associate members. The Hamrad club is affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, the national association of Amateur Radio operators. MEETINGS are held on the second Wednesday of every month at 8 PM at the Hilton Fire House on Arson Road. Short business meetings are followed by regular programs of interest to Amateur Radio operators. Refreshments are served. Anyone with an interest in Amateur Radio is welcome to attend. The club's service activities include public safety communications for the annual Amok County Firemen's Parade, cooperation with the county's American Red Cross Disaster Service and the operation of a weekly net to drill members to prepare for providing emergency communications in natural disasters such as the 1989 Amok River flood which devastated Bumbleville. Other activities include an annual Field Day emergency communications exercise, a hamfest (an Amateur Radio flea market), an annual picnic, maintaining a repeater station serving amateurs in Amok County and conducting Amateur Radio licensing classes. The club conducts 8-week licensing classes each quarter during the year. Qualified instructors and volunteer examiners certified by the American Radio Relay League administer periodic examinations leading to Federal Communications Commission licenses. Telephone Edgar Bergen, 555-6286, for the next class schedule. For more information on the Hamrad Amateur Radio Club, or on Amateur Radio in general, write to Clark Kent, 1234 Metropolis Street Amok City.