[K3pzn-board] Board Meeting + Hiker Speaker

[Curt Milton]

I have an engagement with the spouse tonight so I will not be at the board meeting.  Yes I will try to arrange to participate at the tailgate fest, I could do parking or maybe some other duty.  

I suggested to the club that we consider arranging QST author K1YPP as a guest speaker - he says he will be traveling the east coast and willing to present at clubs -- so if there is board interest I was going to inform him of our next two meeting dates to see if we have a potential match.  His article on his adventure and radio operations is quite interesting!  Let me know what you think.  So far we have 4 yes responses and perhaps a bunch of yawns from our reflector on this suggestion.  

73 Curt


--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] Fw: [QRP-L] ham hiker adventure: Three Hundred Zeroes author passing thru
> To: "Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 12:36 PM
> Just curious if anyone would be
> interested in possibly having the guy who hiked/operated the
> appalachian trail as a speaker.  He had a recent
> article in QST about it.  OK its a dream, but you never
> know!  Literally we tell him when our August meeting
> is, and we can see where he might be.  Just a wild
> ideal to explore.  I could imagine club expenses to be
> modest.  See below.  Feedback appreciated.  
> 
> I have a lot of respect for those that have
> thru-hiked.  Maybe I have hiked 60 miles or so and
> spent 4 or 6 nights along the trail, but I was in my 20's
> when this happened.  I have been on the AT some the
> last couple years without the burden of carrying gear. 
> 
> 
> 73 Curt
>   
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Dennis Blanchard <k1ypp at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dennis Blanchard <k1ypp at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [QRP-L] QRP hiker adventure: Three Hundred
> Zeroes finalist in book contest.
> > To: "QRP List" <qrp-l at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 10:50 AM
> > As many of you already know, I wrote
> > a book about my hike on the Appalachian 
> > Trail that features my carrying a QRP rig on the hike.
> The
> > book was a finalist 
> > in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Contest.
> The
> > book cover now 
> > proudly wears a medallion indicating this. Thanks to
> all
> > those on this list that 
> > have already read the book.
> > 
> > I'll be driving up and down the east coast for the
> next
> > month or two. If your 
> > radio club would like me to stop in and do my slide
> > presentation about the hike, 
> > let me know and we'll see if the schedule can be
> > synchronized. The PowerPoint 
> > presentation has a number of images of the QRP station
> and
> > locations along the 
> > trail that served as operating points. Just writing
> about
> > it makes me wish I was 
> > back out there. In fact, I do plan to stop here and
> there
> > and walk a few miles 
> > and set up the station now and then; I'll try to post
> a
> > schedule at some point.
> > 
> > 72'
> > 
> > Dennis, K1YPP
> > 
> > Author of: THREE HUNDRED ZEROES
> > Three Hundred Zeroes Web site: http://threehundredzeroes.com
> > Find it on amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/248ymjg
> > 
> >
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