[NCC] AZ Open House/Annual NCC meeting

[tleek8az]

This will come as old news to our long-time members .... but might be a bit
of a surprise to our newer Rochester contingent.....

This year will be the 26th annual K8AZ Open House, on Saturday, Jan. 4.
 Traditionally folks drive in between 3 and 5, we eat pizza and appetizers
and there is the annual NCC meeting (including election of officers) at the
meeting that starts at 7 pm.

This event was actually started in 1987, when the late (and legendary) Doc
Schiller, ex-KN8Z, WA8ZDF, etc., announced that he was coming for a tour --
with his entourage in tow.  Thus was born the "pre party party" that led up
to the annual MRRC year-start party hosted by Jim, K8MR at his house in
Orange Village.   The two events have been in tandem ever since, even after
a group of MRRC members left MRRC to form NCC.

In any event, the open house this year will start at 3 pm at my house in
Chesterland.  (If you're looking at a map, you'd drive on I-90 west until
I-271, take I-271 south to the first exit, and I'm about 5 miles from
there.)  We're hoping to entice another brave contingent from Rochester to
come down again this year, and I'd be happy to check out prices for nearby
lodging -- and could manage to board one or two guys here.  And, of course,
we're also hoping for a strong turnout from the local NCC contingent.

This party is always a high point of the contest mid-season and we're
hoping to see LOTS of NCC'ers here then.  And we'll have elections at the
meeting -- and likely a few surprises too.

Please email any questions.  Hope to see lots of the gang here on January 4.

73,
Tom, K8AZ
NCC President