News from the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)

Hi,

It is time for our first meeting of the new year. This coming Wednesday at 7PM at the East Loudoun Sheriff's Station.

I had a great month. Helped out at the Herndon Caboose Special Event station. Thanks to Henry, K2BFY, and Bill, W1FL. We had a great time and several club members showed up. See our web page at http://www.qsl.net/sterling/OSE/2011_Herndon_Caboose_SES/2011_Caboose_SES_Pics/2011_Herndon_Caboose_SES_Pics.html for pictures.

Refreshments for this month are by Red, N3TG.

As usual we will start the meeting with introductions and comments on ham related activities during the past month.

We will follow the introductions with a "Show and Tell." If you have something ham related, please bring it in and you can talk about it for a few minutes.

Our activity for the month is the "Ham Gift Exchange." Please bring a small, hopefully ham related, wrapped gift. We do a white elephant git exchange (see wikipedia article).

We also have a few items of club business.

This is our annual dues collection month. Dues at $10. Please pay our secretary, Mark, KI4OBT, who keeps our member list.

In addition, we can discuss the status of the VA QSO Party and Field Day.

See you at the meeting!

73, Gordon, NQ4K