[MRCG] MRCG West Coast Meet 2020

[Mark J. Blair]

I think we should cancel the physical meet at the beginning of May, but still plan on a bunch of on-air (and maybe also virtual?) fun for that weekend. Looking at how things have progressed where the virus first landed, I don't think everything will have settled down by then. And let's face it... most of our group is in a higher risk category for this virus.

It'll be nice if we can hold a meeting late in the year. Maybe we should just play that by ear for now? I've seen some speculation of a possible second wave, much like what happened with the Spanish Flu, so I'm a bit leery of committing to anything in the next year. :)

I'd be happy to get Clatternet up and running again if there's interest.

This email list is a fine place for us to continue to be connected even while we're hunkering in our radio shacks. If anybody is interested in a more real-time online chat, I could put up a topical Discord(*) chat server easily enough; either something specifically MRCG-related, or something with a general focus on military surplus technology. I don't know if that's really needed, since we already have all sorts of related mailing lists and forums; I'm just throwing the idea out to see if anybody wants it to happen.


(*) Discord is an online text and/or voice chat platform which is mostly focused on computer gaming. It gets used for a lot of off-label stuff, too. I am on several Discord servers related to vintage computer collecting, for example.

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Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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