[HBQRP] June 8 Meeting

[Steve Sellmeyer]

Enjoyed the gathering today even if we did get rained out. Was nice to just 
sit around eating pizza or whatever and chatting. Had thought about bringing 
the new HB-1B rig and warming the antenna but the thunder and lightening 
nixed that idea. Hopefully July won't be too hot and humid for the outing to 
the park.

Steve/WB0QQT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <w9hzc at cox.net>
To: <hbqrp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [HBQRP] June 8 Meeting


> ______________________________________________________________
> Hello All,
> Well, the weather won today and our trip to the park was a no go. Lots of 
> water coming down from the sky!
> So - we all ended up at the Pizza place for lunch and chatting.
> A total of 12 folks managed to make it even with the nasty conditions 
> outside.
>
> Here is the list of folks.
>
> Myself - Dar W9HZC
> Ray - N5SEZ
> Joe - K0NEB
> Steve - WB0QQP
> Claudia - K1AUD
> Arnie - KA0NCR
> Brian - KM0Y
> Darrel - K0AWB
> Bruce - KB0KA
> Gene - KB0OVK
> Kurt - WB0AEA
> Paul - N0WQK
>
> Nice showing. The new guy, N0WQK, is  new to our group but not to Ham 
> radio. He is a professor at Iowa Western College just east across the 
> river in Iowa. Paul teaches all kinds of electronics related stuff for the 
> school and dabbles in Robotics too.
> The group mostly stayed around until just after 3PM all chatting about 
> current projects, future projects and pumping Paul for Ideas. Several 
> members of the group commented as we all headed for our cars that this had 
> been one of the most interesting meeting we have had.
> The great thing is that Paul lives there in Ashland so will not be able to 
> 'claim' it was too far to drive to get to a meeting :)
> No one had any progress to report on with respect to the Loop building 
> project. Mostly folks are gathering the needed parts, still!
> --
> The normal July meeting will occur on the same Saturday weekend as 
> LobsterCon on the East coast and SalmonCon on the West coast
> So -- we will set up several QRP stations in the Park and operate in an 
> effort to contact both Coasts. We will refer to our July operating event 
> as either 1 D I J (One Day In July) or CobCon ( you know, like Corn 
> Cob!~!).
> Plan is to be on the air from 11:00 CDT to 17:00 CDT (or later).  Make 
> sure to give us a call if you can hear us!
> --
> and.. Paul, we expect this to be the beginning of a long new friendship.
> --
> 73's all
> Dar W9HZC
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