[PVRCNC] alternate meeting location for NC East

[Brad Hedges]

FWIW, here are my comments:

Well, not that I'm going to be able to attend another meeting for over a
year (Uncle Sam says "We need YOU to go back to Afghanistan for a year or
more!), but I agree with Gary on the smoke issue. At least a portion of the
area without smoke would be good with me. I don't mind driving the hour and
a half from Fayetteville once a month, and if there were other activities on
weekends I'd gladly drive it more than once.

I really enjoy eating, and different places to eat would be great with me,
also. Healthy food is great - but I usually don't eat it. Running 3-8 miles
a day, 5 days a week helps a bit, I suppose. I heartily support the idea of
roaming from house to house as well, but know that is not likely to end up a
viable alternative.

As far as my trip to YA land goes, I'm writing this with my laptop sitting
on top of a 12-unit hardened relay rack case that I'm working on filling
with radio gear. I'll have my FT1K in it along with a Dentron antenna tuner,
SWR/Power meter, TNC, PSK switch box, Surge Protector/UPS/Line Filter, and
in a couple of months, an Ameritron ALS-600 Solid state amplifier. I've got
a new HP zd8000 laptop (17 inch monitor!) and N1MM, plus a bunch of other
software for programming Microchip PIC's and Visual Basic and some other
stuff (I've got a project in the works that has great potential for SO2R
contesting... an integrated antenna switch and rotor controller with a touch
screen interface). I'm looking at using a long wire antenna, and am STILL
waiting on my YA call.... I hope I can do more than SWL! I leave about the
tenth of April, and this will hopefully be my last deployment before I
retire from the Army.

Take care,
Brad
K0BHC


Important to me are:

A.  An area without cigarette smoke (allergies)
B.  Either no food at all or some food option that is healthy
C.  A place I can get to in a reasonable drive from my home near Jordan
Lake.  To me reasonable is on the order of 20-30 minutes.  Rush hour traffic
is out.

The GC is usually OK on A and C, C if I take US 64 instead of I-40.
However GC fails miserably with item B and for that reason you have not seen
me there for probably over a year.  I do enjoy the meetings/BS, but not at
the expense of my health (A and B).

Like others a beer would be nice to have in that setting. But, not at the
expense of inhaling someone else's cigarette smoke :-(

Has anyone tossed up the idea of rotating the meeting among our homes?
Haven't thought that out; it just popped into my head.

73,

Gary W2CS


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[mailto:pvrcnc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Guy Olinger, K2AV
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:36 PM
To: "PVRC NC"
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] alternate meeting location for NC East


I agree, the last two are just nice. 1-6 will become an issue though,
if we can't set those up. The leadership has had to deal with each one
of them over the life of the chapter.

6-9 is the most common recently as you say, the largest and the
smallest over time are 4 - 20. A few rare times over 20.

The manager at Golden Corral is upset about item number 6 now and
wants to seat us elsewhere in the restaurant. We had to painfully
negotiate our way on item 2). He WANTED a 25 dollar fixed fee to use
the room regardless of number of attendees, which is what we DID the
first time we met there. I think he is going back to that requirement.
We'll see.

Let me say it very clearly, though the prior posts WERE mostly about
having a single meeting elsewhere, I suspect we might have to move.
And find a place with a little friendlier management, who can deal
with 1) through 6).

--Guy.

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For reference...

1) A room where we aren't expected to vacate as soon as we're done
eating.

2) A room without a fixed room fee.

3) Management is OK with separate tickets off the regular menu (or
individual check-ins ala Golden Corral) with a standard tip or "room
fee" (percentage or lump sum) that is added to each check in the
group, regardless of numbers.

4) Moderate to inexpensive prices.

5) Individuals can arrive and be served at scattered times without
prior notification of numbers.

6) Small or large numbers are not a problem with the management.
Historically 4 to 20, with rare instances of over 20. Patrons are
willing to crowd tables on heavy nights with no complaints.

7) Would be nice if we could occasionally set up a screen for a
PowerPoint presentation.

8) Would be nice if beer/wine was served. It's also a money maker and
the restaurant is friendlier with larger checks.



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> I'm not sure that we we would necessarily have to meet all 8 items
> to have a successful meeting location but that's another issue.  My
> only point was/is that it might be nice to have a different location
> to meet at from time to time...to pick up those who desire a
> different location and those who don't want to travel so far south,
> etc...  I was not suggesting a permanent location change but
> something more like a quarterly or semi-annual change of
> pace/location meeting.
>
> Maybe we do average from 4 to 20 attendees, but I am as much a
> regular attender as anyone and from my recollection, the last year
> or more has seen more like 6 to 9 on average with no need for a
> power point at the PCRCNC-East meetings.
>
> We need to find a way to rejuvenate a desire to attend our meetings.
> I welcome any other ideas.  This was merely one.
>

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