[PVRCNC] Regular Monthly Meeting PVRC NC East Thursday May 3, Manchester's

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Hello PVRC and friends,

The regular first Thursday monthly meeting of the PVRC NC East chapter will
be held May 3, 2018 in the group room at Manchester's Bar and Grille, 9101
Leesville Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613.

5:15 PM: Arrivals begin and continue throughout the meeting. Late arrivals
please sign in on the Chairman's log when you first come in.

We do it this way because some need to arrive early enough to beat one or
more of the several regular weekday interstate jam-ups. Others can't leave
early and always get caught in the jam. So latecomers are **entirely
welcome**. We've all been there and **entirely understand**. Anyone who
comes in during the round-the-table will be picked up at the end if the
round has gone past where they are sitting. Wait staff is used to our late
arrivals. We allow a 30 second embarrassing pause for anyone who gets
caught with a mouth full of french fries when it's their turn. After 30
seconds you have to talk with your mouth full.

6:00 PM  Serious, organized QRN (as opposed to blathering, meandering QRN)
begins with the round-the-table. Dining is any time after 5:15, shortly
after you tackle one of the wait staff. Official meeting is officially over
after official round-the-table, any official program, and the chairman runs
out of official blather. The entire meeting is actually over when all the
post-official-meeting stand-up meetings break up and go home. That could be
anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour later.

All are invited. Newcomers and visitors distinctly welcome. You will be
treated like you've been our friend for twenty years.

Due to my wife's recent surgery, I most likely will not be able to make
this meeting.

N4YDU will try hard to remember how he ran meetings back when he had the
chair. Go easy on him, as he may have suffered memory damage during his
ARRL DX CW psychedelic sleep deprivation self-levitation experiences in
Costa Rica. If you don't see him doing it, remind him to take attendance
for the PVRC data machine on PVRC.org.

73 and see you next time,

Guy K2AV
Chair, PVRC-NCE

[Note: high tipping insures that the owner will suffer a severe beating by
the wait staff if he ever tries to schedule the room out from under us. If
you can't or prefer not to high tip, don't worry, nobody is looking.]