[Fourlanders] What to Do?

[Neal Sulmeyer]

Since I am going to the International DX Convention in Visalia this
year, I will not be attending the VHF conference. So I vote for a
meeting at Dick's house.  I will be gone from April 13 to 20.  So that
weekend is out for me. 

-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Worsham
Sent: March 29, 2005 01:00
To: k4sz at alltel.net; fourlanders at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] What to Do?

As I see it there are a couple of things that can be done.  First, Dick,

K5AND has graciously agreed to host a lunch time meeting at his QTH in 
Cumming.  Knowing Dick, the food will be better than anything at
Applebee's. 
The second option is to have a meeting at the upcoming Southeastern VHF 
Conference in Charlotte.  The conference itself has a rather full
schedule 
but a Thursday (April 28th) night dinner meeting might be possible.  I
plan 
to be at the hotel by 6 myself.  One advantage of this is we would
probably 
get a larger group than usual since several of the TN and NC contingent
will 
be there.  Either way, it will be up to someone else to organize the 
meeting, send out the meeting notice, find a place to eat, etc.  It is a
lot 
of work and I have already done one.

I think the hospitality suite idea is a great one and I am glad we have 
someone in the group like Bob who is thinking of things like that.  Bob,
put 
me down to help support the hospitality suite.  Maybe I can get Dick to
give 
me his Margarita recipe and we can fill the "sacred vessel" for everyone
to 
enjoy.  That's all I have for now.

73
Jim W4KXY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Lear" <k4sz at alltel.net>
To: <fourlanders at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:54 PM
Subject: [Fourlanders] What to Do?


> What to Do?  What to Do?
>
> Your VP(?) ponders the situation.
>
> Well, there was no Fourlanders meeting contrary to what the waitress
> overheard and there were no Margaritas either.  Just Bob and Jim at
the
> restaurant wondering why they hadn't also made plans for "something
> better to do", since that was true in their cases for sure.
>
> The Fourlanders are an incorporated club and the by-laws require a
> yearly meeting for election of officers.  This has now not happened.
Do
> we have officers now?  Are we still in existence?  The two of us could
> not answer these questions.  We may need some answers from Steve on
> these points.
>
> We only have two meetings a year, one for the election and June
contest
> planning and another usually for September contest planning.  This
> certainly doesn't seem to be asking too much of the members, unless
> there really is no further interest in the club activities.  We
> certainly can and do conduct much of the contest planning activities
via
> e-mail, but not everything can be done that way.  Every now and then
we
> should meet face to face.
>
> In private conversations, I have heard from folks who are looking
> forward to contesting in June at least and some who already know they
> are unavailable.  But how are we going to get together and make plans?
>
> I don't want to get mad and I don't want to get upset.  I want to go
> contesting!  I've spent a lot of time and money on building up a
> microwave station and I'm not getting to use it.  Now if the group
ends
> up being too small to continue doing full multi-op with microwave,
I'll
> still be willing to be a member of the group doing limited if that's
how
> we end up.  I won't be as happy, but I'll keep doing it for now.
>
> The club has significantly downsized over the past several years since
> I've been a member.  I know it was a much larger organization in the
> past and had as many as 30 members or more.  It seems that we are only
> around 10 now and foundering.   We have tried to recruit new members,
> most notably at the Stone Mtn hamfest.  We did get some names and have
> been keeping those folks informed.  Maybe some will turn out to be
major
> players in the group, but of course haven't yet had any opportunity.
I
> will say that I wouldn't have expected any of them to be a major force
> at the "meeting".  It usually takes some time to get started with a
> group and I hope they won't be discouraged by what is happening.
>
> Speaking of recruiting, I've probably made a mistake on behalf of the
> group.  I thought (on my own) that it would be a good idea for the
> Fourlanders to help host the hospitality suites at the SVHFS
conference
> and committed to do so.  Since we don't seem to have an organization
to
> call on to help out, I'll cover it myself as necessary.
>
> Now that I have vented sufficiently, I'm still asking the question,
> "What to Do?"
>
> I will further suggest that the Fourlanders reflector be the forum for
> ideas and opinions even though there have been some private
> communications already passed around.  Put them out for the group.
I'll
> try to keep track of all that's happening and collate and summarize
for
> the group.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Bob K4SZ
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