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COOKIES !! March 12, 2011 Meeting Notice

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The theme of this meeting is COOKIES!!

Why cookies you ask? Will, K6ND, is imposing on the good nature of his XYL (and premier distaff contester), Pamela, K6NDV, to bring her famous cookies. Not to be outdone, Bob W1YRC is making a batch of his West Texas Chocolate Chips cookies too. This is truly a meeting not to be missed by cookie lovers! My recommendation is to skip breakfast so as not to waste stomach capacity on lesser foods.

Meeting place: Crandall House at 11am to 2pm

At the moment of posting the following presentations are scheduled. Check back often for additions to this agenda.

  1. W1XX to announce and promote:  “Operation NEQP:  1 Million or Bust”?
  2. K1DM  presentation on his Morse code training regime. He will also do a TEST RUN using the RufzXP program to let everyone see another way to improve their code proficiency. There is much of interest about Mike’s methodology that this short description fails to do justice to.
  3. W1YRC will give a presentation on the way his other club is approaching lifting the level of technical expertise of members and prospective members. It is an unusual way to make real hams out of people who hold a license but whose understanding of ham radio or electronics comes mainly from the license manual.


Lunch by Chris, KA1GEU  Coffee by John, W1AN, ice cold milk by Pat, NG1G

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Should We Search for New Meeting Venues?

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I am lamenting the lack of an Internet connection at the Crandall House. I think our meetings, or more specifically our presentations, could benefit from a high-speed Internet connection. I’m doing a presentation on LoTW and while a real-time connection is the obvious best method, I’m going to make due with a “death-by-Powerpoint”-style presentation instead. Yech.

So I got to thinking that maybe we should search for a new venue that can not only accommodate our IT requirements, but one that might be food and drink friendly. And then I thought, “Why not see if we can get several venues so we can rotate them? That way we can make traveling to meetings more equitable.”

I know there are some facilities that have meeting rooms for the public to use. I’m thinking of libraries, hospitals, and colleges and universities, to name a few. Maybe we can find some that will accommodate our needs. The idea would be to have each member find a venue in his community that offers the right stuff, and then the club can make an “official” request. It could even be at a member’s house if he wants.

If we only got even three or four venues, we could rotate the meetings among them so we wouldn’t have the same people driving the greatest distance every time. And the change of scenery would be good.

73,

Pat, NG1G