[PVRCNC] PVRC NC Thursday, December 5, 2020, 7 to 8:30 pm Over-the-Internet, Early arrival 6:30pm (EST)

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

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PVRC-NC Chapter Meeting
Thu, Dec 3, 2020 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)

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Hello PVRC and friends,

As with our meetings since Covid 19, our regular monthly meeting of the
PVRC NC East Chapter cannot be held in the group room at Manchester's Bar
and Grille, or be held anywhere as a physical gathering, while obeying
common sense and North Carolina statewide and Wake County social distancing
orders due to the pandemic.

Fully understanding and cooperating in the spirit of the orders, and with a
modicum of previous success, we will have our meeting over-the-internet
using our PVRC account on the GoToMeeting server. This may be the means for
quite a while.

We have moved the time from the Manchester's dinner meeting times, to
7-8:30 pm to allow folks to eat at home when their own food is cooked,
since we will not be both eating and bantering across the table as during a
Manchester's meeting. GoToMeeting will come on for this at 6:30 pm to allow
"early arrival" pre-meeting yakety-yak.

Check-in particulars are above. Please remember to keep your mic on mute
when you are not speaking. *Also, please set up your display name to show
{name} {callsign}. *That's digital era name badges. With
checkins increasing, take care to be decently brief during the
round-the-table. Hold your cross-table questions until after all have had
their turn. If you are multi-tasking during the round-the-table, for
courtesy *you may wish to kill both your microphone and camera until you
are called*.

Delighted, we have been getting to see and hear members and prospective
members from well outside the previous easy driving distance. Newcomers
will be treated like they've been coming for twenty years. Especially our
western NC brethren are definitely welcome.

Yours truly is gradually, slowly, learning how to conduct the meeting
without losing track of all the check-ins and who has had their turn in the
round-the-table. Kind of like a really big video assisted SSB traffic net.
I note others are getting the hang of it faster than me.

Mike Barts, N4GU, will obligingly again be at the GoToMeeting controls. For
help from someone that actually knows how it works, reply to this email. We
will be watching out for you.  Thank you, Mike.

Sure to be heard, fish stories from SS and CQWW CW.

Note that ARRL 160m is this week 5 pm EST Friday Dec 4 through 11 am EST
Sunday Dec 6, no time limits.  ARRL 10m 0000Z Dec 12 through 2359Z Dec 13.
Winter Stew Perry Top Band Distance Challenge 1500Z Dec 26 through 1500Z
Dec 27

73, Guy K2AV