Monday, September 17, 2012

September Meeting

Hello Fellow Amateurs,

Our September meeting will be on the 20th of the month at Wallace Memorial Baptist Church at 7:00pm. Our guest speaker will be Mr. Charlie Hargis, K4LF. His topic will be a presentation on grid squares and there will also be an interactive “quiz” at the end. This will certainly be informative and fun for all of us.The Comm Van project is in full swing. We will have it at the VOAD fair at Cokesbury UMC on Sept.22. This event will be focused on emergency preparedness from storing food to civil agencies preparing for us. Faith based organizations as well as city, county and other government agencies will be present. It will be something that you will wish you had attended if you don’t.The van will also be at the TenTec hamfest on the 29th at the TenTec factory in Sevierville. It will also be taken to the Boy Scout Jamboree on Oct 27th just outside of Loudon. This will also be attended by some civil agencies to demonstrate emergency readiness. Put these on your calendar to help the club with staffing of our CommVan. As you know, the lightning strike we took at our repeater site was very damaging. This will be a very time consuming task of getting it back up and running. Thanks for being patient till we get it back to it’s usual operating condition. Our fall picnic will be Sunday, September 23 at Melton Hill Park. This location is in West Knox County on the lake. Talk-in on the club repeaters. The club will provide the grilled burgers ,dogs and other stuff. Please bring a side or dessert to help our with our fun. Thanks for your time, keep our military troops in your prayers.

See you at the meeting,

Jim Norman, N4CFB