Five members gathered at the Newnan-Coweta Public Safety Training Center tonight for our July meeting. They were:
Chris McGehee, KL0UD—BGMRC Treasurer (presiding)
Kevin McGehee, AK4MC—BGMRC Secretary
George Peck, W4IW
Bill Merritt, K4WPM
Jay Langley, N4NRL
Jay, N4NRL, talked about his upcoming Boy Scouts project, Jamboree On The Air, which will be held at Mcintosh Reserve Park near Whitesburg, third weekend in October. Scouts from several counties will be pursuing their radio merit badges with training and on-the-air operation. About 200 Scouts are expected to participate. Jay said he is keeping in touch with BGMRC members who were involved in last February’s teaching and testing event in Newnan.
Bill, K4WPM, reminded the members about the Lewis Grizzard bike race October 5. Bill says “three or four” hams will be needed to ride in SAG wagons (they will not be asked to drive their own cars for this) using mobile power and mag-mount or similar antenna, to help out.
Powers Crossroads is practically upon us and this is a very important activity for the BGMRC’s revenue stream. If you would like to help with preparations or during the event, but don’t know whom to contact, feel free to post to the reflector for information.
And of course, we need people willing to serve as club officers for 2008-09. If we don’t get volunteers, we’ll have to draft somebody.
