[NJARC] "cheap radios at auction club" -vs- real radio collector club

[John Dilks K2TQN]

Just to the above recipients....

Harry,

Texas has nothing to do with this.  I belong to clubs in California, 
Rhode Island, Maryland and New York States; I would never ask them to 
move a location for me living here in southern New Jersey, near 
Atlantic City.  And I don't think Jon has asked - so drop this!

The real question is, are we going to be a radio club or not?  We 
might loose a couple of members if we go to Infoage all the time, but 
we should pick up some others.  You have (almost) lost me.  And since 
I have been here for about 10 years I pretty much know what I'm 
talking about. I have seen quite a few very good members/collectors 
with large collections drop out.  You should really try to find out 
why.  Several of them were founders of the club.

We have lost our direction.  We have no club projects.  The "club" is 
not working at Infoage.   Just a few dedicated folks do all the work 
at Sarnoff and Infoage.  We don't need numbers, we need dedicated 
members.  Smaller might be better.

As far as traffic is concerned - I drive to Infoage on Friday meeting 
nights and home again. It is an hour and half (plus) driving each 
way.  Sometimes traffic is heavy.  (And I visit my family in Boston 
often and have driven home via the Parkway on Fridays, so I know the 
northern end too.)  But the traffic and driving is much better on the 
Parkway than up and down 206 to Princeton.  206 is a one lane road 
each way with very few locations where you can pass slower moving 
cars.  Sarnoff is a longer more stressful drive for me, and if moved 
to Princeton, it will be even farther/longer.  Princeton traffic, 130 
and US1 traffic is very bad.  During winter, the Parkway is much more 
safe than 206 in bad-freezing-snowy weather.

In New Jersey, there is no best place traffic-wise for everyone - 
unless you want to move meetings around the state to accommodate 
everyone?  So then, what is best for the club?  Dump the Ebay 
sellers, they are leaches.  Forget them. Get established at Infoage 
and give it a couple of years.  If things don't work, you'll know it.

Get over trying to please everyone.  It can't be done.

The club should be more strongly affiliated with Infoage too.

73, John Dilks

At 12:18 PM 2/21/2009, you wrote:
>One "con" for InfoAge - access on Friday nights in late spring and
>summer is really tough - especially
>for anyone coming from the north.
>
>As for me, I work at InfoAge every Wednesday, but I live a little closer
>to Princeton, so I am willing
>to travel to either location. But we have members attending from all
>over the place (even Texas!).
>What are your thoughts?
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