[SECC] Monthly Informal SECC Meeting

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

 I live just down US 27 about 5 miles from Callaway. They have a nice playground, paddle boats, putt-putt golf and picnic pavilion by the beach.
They have some restrants as well or there is plenty to choose from in Pine Mountain too...

                          Jeff



> 
> From: "Matt Lee, K4AQ" <Matt at HiWAAY.net>
> Date: 2004/09/08 Wed PM 05:08:10 EDT
> To: "'Macie, Gordon'" <GMacie at innotrac.com>
> CC: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [SECC] Monthly Informal SECC Meeting
> 
> 
> If I had a family, I would want to involve them in some of my ham
> activities...so they will get the idea that other hams are "normal
> people" and that ham outings can be fun.
> 
> Visiting Callaway Gardens, http://www.CallawayGardens.com/, would be
> great for the family. I took my sister and her husband there in April;
> we were all first timers. 
> 
> We especially enjoyed the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center,
> http://www.callawayonline.com/tosee/dbc/dbc.htm; Birds of Prey Show,
> http://www.callawayonline.com/tosee/bop/bop.htm; and the John A. Sibley
> Horticultural Center,
> http://www.callawayonline.com/tosee/sibley/sibley.htm.
> 
> I don't think we will have any problem finding restaurants in Columbus,
> hi. One of my favorites is Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant,
> <http://www.sunnydining.com/index.php?page=/restaurants/index.html&locat
> ion=cfg_geo2&rest_id=10685&affiliate_id=>.
> 
> --Matt, K4AQ
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Macie, Gordon [mailto:GMacie at innotrac.com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, 08 September, 2004 16:13
> > To: 'Matt at HiWAAY.net'; ku8e at bellsouth.net
> > Cc: secc at contesting.com
> > Subject: RE: [SECC] Monthly Informal SECC Meeting
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to see W8JI... I would also like to visit 
> > Columbus... Maybe we
> > could do a family/group visit to Callaway Gardens.. Hey it 
> > doesn't have to
> > be just ham stuff.. Early Spring might be the time for that 
> > one. Maybe the
> > Columbus guys could suggest a restaurant to meet at.
> > 
> > Gordon N4LR
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Lee, K4AQ [mailto:Matt at HiWAAY.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:08 PM
> > To: ku8e at bellsouth.net
> > Cc: secc at contesting.com
> > Subject: RE: [SECC] Monthly Informal SECC Meeting
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would be interested.
> > 
> > How about including a visit to a member (or even non-member...who will
> > then be a potential member) station after the lunch meeting? The lunch
> > place could be near that QTH. Visiting a station could be 
> > done quarterly
> > if monthly isn't a popular idea.
> > 
> > We can even be as bold as to have a lunch meeting in Columbus, GA, 100
> > miles south of Atlanta, and home of the infamous K4BAI. (It would also
> > be a good excuse for me to visit the Port Columbus National Civil War
> > Naval Museum, http://www.portcolumbus.org/, something that is on my
> > "Things I Gotta Do Before I Die" list, hi.)
> > 
> > Other stns to visit should include NQ4I and W8JI.
> > 
> > --
> > Matt Lee, K4AQ
> > Atlanta, GA USA
> > <K4AQ at arrl.net>
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: secc-bounces at contesting.com 
> > > [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of ku8e at bellsouth.net
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 08 September, 2004 10:13
> > > To: secc at contesting.com
> > > Subject: [SECC] Monthly Informal SECC Meeting
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > I wonder if there would be any interest in reviving this 
> > > lunch meeting ??  Maybe we could pick a Saturday every month 
> > > and have an informal lunch meeting and enjoy some contesting 
> > > camradrie. This would not be a required meeting and for those 
> > > who don't want to participate... that's OK.
> > > 
> > >  I propose we meet at noon at the Panara in Dunwoody - see 
> > >  http://www.panerabread.com/Map.aspx?LocationId=391 for a 
> > > map. Or maybe we could switch it around to different places 
> > > around Atlanta. I know NQ4I has a 
> > > Mexican restraunt that we always go to after a contest at his 
> > > place, which would be another possibility.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > >                               Jeff
> 
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