Nancy Torborg KB2TNR —  RARSfest Chair, Facilities & Pre-Hamfest, Meetings & Forums

Nancy is a retired elementary school librarian and director of stage-musicals with a hundred 8-to-11-year-olds. Nancy stepped up in 2022 to bring RARSfest back after a two-year, COVID 19-induced hiatus. This will be her fifth year as RARSfest Chair. Her experience with middle-schoolers has proved invaluable.

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Jeremy Lindsley K2HJX —  Commercial Area, Flea Market, and Pre-Registration

Jeremy's passion is public service. He is the RARS Public Service Director and head of the Ham Public Service North Carolina group. Consistent with that, Jeremy joined the RARSfest team to help bring it back in 2022 and has taken on ever-increasing responsibilities since.

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Craig McCrary KY4WM —  Assistant [to the] Flea Market Coordinator

Craig helped with Security in 2025, but Jeremy decided he needed Craig's organizational skills in the Flea Market and lured him over to the dark side. We can't find any pictures of Craig, and he hasn't supplied one, so we're pretty sure he's in WitSec. Sssh!

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Jenna Janke  —  Admissions

Admissions is the first thing attendees experience when they come to RARSfest. Jenna stepped up to head the Admissions team after years of masterfully running our Admissions lines, giving Chick-fil-A energy! A woman of many interests and talents, she can be found: duck pin bowling, at Sneaky Penguin on Trivia Night, caring for animals at a vet office, and teaching martial arts. Not a ham herself (but is married to one!), we appreciate her dedication to RARSfest the past few years.

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Tadd Torborg KA2DEW —  Operations

Some people think the only reason Tadd is on this list is that he is the Chair's husband, but that's not completely true. Tadd has been instrumental in the evolution of RARSfest, including driving changes in door prizes, volunteer incentives, and the attendee experience. He also performs IT and Documentation/Publication support for the Chair, including hosting Zoom meetings.

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Ryan Reed N7RYN —  Prize & Information Center

Ryan has been a long-time RARSfest volunteer, filling in wherever needed. Well, this year we needed him to run the Prize & Information Center, which he gladly stepped up to do. He is also a recently-elected At-Large Director of RARS.

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Fin Gold NC4FG — RARS Booth

Fin is the immediate past president of RARS and is in charge of the RARS Booth, for which the current president is extremely grateful.

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Charley Bratton KE4QBW —  Security

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Chuck Till K4RGN —  Talk-In

Chuck is a former part-time announcer on WCPE, the classical music FM radio station in Wake Forest. During RARSfest, he brings his melifluous voice to our talk-in station, ensuring that travelers make it safely to the hamfest. He is also in the second year of his second two-year term as the Vice President of RARS.

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John Hollowell K4JAH —  Tech Titan

New to the RARSfest team this year, John is also the FM Repeater Chair for the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society. He joins us here to make sure all our forum presenters have a smooth and trouble-free experience.

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Greg Seamster KE4PAX —  Treasurer

Greg is another long-standing member of the RARSfest team who brings valuable institutional knowledge. But more importantly, Greg keeps track of the money. He makes sure we don't spend more than we have. Greg has been the RARS Treasurer since 2001.

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Tom Lewis N4TL —  Volunteer Consignment Table

Another long-standing member of the RARSfest team, Tom helps out other RARSfest Volunteers by selling their ham radio junk treasures at the consignment table. Tom was the RARS Vice President from 2014 through 2022 and has been the editor of the EXciter, the RARS newsletter, since 2015. He's also a serious DXer!

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Josh Kurland KR4BTW —  Volunteer Wrangler

New to the RARSfest team this year, Josh is also the newly-elected Secretary of the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society.

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Richard Hall KR4LH —  Volunteer Examiner Team

Richard joined the RARSfest team in 2024 after he was elected as the RARS Volunteer Examiner Chair. He is accredited through the Laurel VEC and a member of the Five County Ham Radio Enthusiasts Group Outside of RARS, Richard is a retired USAF pilot and consulting professional engineer.

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Will Gwaltney WA4GK —  Webmaster

Will is the newly-elected RARS webmaster, which means he gets to do the RARSfest website at no additional charge. He wants to point out that all the errors on the RARSfest website are the fault of the prior webmaster, who responded to that comment by saying, “Hey, it was golden when I left it.”

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Tony O'Connor K1OC —  RARS President

Tony retired after four years as the RARS webmaster and head of Security for RARSfest to become the president of the Raleigh hamfest's sponsoring organization, the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society. He still hasn't decided whether that was a good idea.

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