[PVRCNC] Chapter Meetings

[Eric Wagner]

My thoughts are the following.

1. I like the in person and hybrid meetings.  I think it helps us keep 
better in
     touch with those that have unreasonably long drives to the meetings 
and still
     get personal interactions with those that do show up.  I suspect 
most of the
     folks with long drives still won't join us often even if the venue 
moves.
     We are geographically widely dispersed.  Moving back to North Raleigh
     wouldn't be a big deal for me.  But, it is a bigger deal for Bill 
and Hank.
     Recently, I have had some conflicts with other commitments and missed
     a meeting or two. But, I really try to block out that time slot to 
attend in
     person each month.

2. I agree with Hank and Jim that the food is typical pub/bar food.  Not 
as much
     variety as Manchesters.  I did notice that the Hickory Tavern menu 
slimmed
     down a bit over the past year.  The venue does have some noise 
challenges
     in the room.  I'm not attending for the culinary experience.

3. I think with Bill's most recent mic upgrade the
     sound quality was MUCH improved this last meeting.  In my experience,
     even 'professionally' designed video conference rooms had issues with
     microphones and audio around a large conference table.    As I recall,
     Manchesters didn't provide much in the way of Audio/Video support.
     Hybrid meetings there would be equally difficult and maybe worse.

4. I like having presentations.  I think everyone learns from them and I 
don't
     mind contributing to prepare one or two topics that others are 
interested
     in.  We can dispense with the round the table discussion when we have
     a presentation.  I really haven't found the meetings to be too 
long.  Some
     topic suggestions, Hamvention/Contest U summary from an attendee,
     station automation topics and there are always things like antennas,
     new radios and propagation during sunspot maximum.

  5. If we did a quarterly in person meeting would more of us make a
     commitment to attend in person independent of location?  If the
     location is really the issue, then lets try some other location and
     see how it goes.

Eric - NR4O

On 9/6/2024 3:56 PM, James Jordan via PVRCNC wrote:
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