[PVRCNC] PVRC NC Thursday, April 2, 2020, 7pm to 8pm Over-the-Internet.

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Hello PVRC and friends,

Our regular first Thursday monthly meeting of the PVRC NC East Chapter
cannot be held Thursday, April 2, 2020 in the group room at Manchester's
Bar and Grille, or be held anywhere as a physical gathering, while obeying
North Carolina statewide and Wake County stay-at-home orders due to the
pandemic.

Fully understanding and cooperating in the spirit of the orders, we instead
will attempt an over-the-internet meeting using a PVRC officers' supplied
account on the GoToMeeting server.

As our technical lead on this enterprise, we are fortunate to have a
long-time user of GoToMeeting, Mike Barts, N4GU, one of the PVRC VP's, who
will be at the controls for the meeting. That's really lucky for us as our
chapter chairman is a 105% klutzy newby on that stuff. *Technical stuff for
logging on, audio+video, audio only, is below. *For help from someone that
actually knows how it works, post to the reflector. Mike will be watching.

*Note the time change: *We have tentatively moved the time from the dinner
meeting times, to 7-8 pm to allow folks to eat at home when their own food
is cooked, since we will not be eating and bantering across the table as
normal during the meeting.

*If there are issues with 7pm to 8pm, please let us know*. Any changes will
be announced here. An actual response, OK or Not OK, to k2av.guy at gmail.com
will be hugely appreciated.

All are invited. Since this does not involve travel, *we have specifically
included our compadres from the Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem area
on the invitation*, making this a PVRC NC meeting, and we would love to
hear how some old friends out there are doing. (I'm using BCC to avoid
exposing their emails.)

As always *"Newcomers and visitors distinctly welcome. You will be treated
like you've been our friend for twenty years."*

73, and see you on the 'net, details below...

Guy K2AV
Chair, PVRC-NCE

[Note: Understanding economic damage our current situation can do to small
businesses, we hope that Manchester's makes it through all this stuff OK.
They are our longest running meeting spot, and for sure with the least
member complaints of any sort. And the manager is a really nice guy. We
would really hate to lose them and the Manchester Deluxe, the Mad Dog
Burger, and pretty decent Italian-ish menu items. Good Luck Manchester's.]

*Internet meeting technical details:*

*Please join our PVRC NC meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
Click on:*

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/747240941

*You can also dial in using your phone. *(Audio only)
United States: +1 (646) 749-3122 <+16467493122,,747240941#>

*Access Code:* 747-240-941

*Please attempt the login ahead of time*, you can get to the point where
GoToMeeting tells you that you're waiting for the "PVRC Secretary" to show
up. It may ask you to download GoToMeeting's app, which you only need to do
once per device. Even I found that easy and pretty seamless, clicking on
things in the displayed web page.

Problems? Post to pvrc at mailman.qth.net. We will be watching for that.

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