One very important event that takes place at Dayton is our annual club meeting and the election of new officers. This year the Presidential reins will be turned over to someone new through the election process. So be ready to place your candidate of choice into nomination, but you will have to be quick, because the Mad River Railroad runs fast, and once you hear the whistling of Whoo-Oooh!! the train has already passed and someone has been railroaded for sure.
I am looking forward to seeing all those that can make it down to Dayton.
I would like to say thank you to everyone in the club for all of your support to me as your "Fish" over these past two years. I have really enjoyed serving as your president and appreciate everyone's efforts and involvement in making MRRC a great organization to be part of. A special thanks for those that have contributed a great deal of their time for making this club as great as it is. To our newsletter editor and web site webmaster, Dave, K8CC, thank you for your many hours of time you spend in behind the scenes gathering information and articles from other club members to make our news letter exciting to read. For all of your tireless efforts of commitment and dedication and service to this club over the years of its existence that help keep us going, thank you. To our Treasurer Dennis, KT8X, thank you for keeping us financially sound and straight throughout the year and your unique canny way of collecting dues. To our MRRC Challenge scorekeepers Sean, K8KHZ and Don, K8BB in supporting the club collecting all those scores and keeping track of the various contests to produce the winning recipient of the MRRC Challenge awards each year. A combined thank you to K8CC and to Jim, K8MR for their ongoing efforts to grow MiQP and OhQP. Your involvements have brought life back into these two QSO parties that continues to grow with enthusiasm each year.
We are pretty much a laid back group, but we all love this sport of amateur radio and contesting together. It is always fun to see the competitive spirit at work within the club and to what lengths one goes to in getting their station ready for club competition. I look forward to seeing the club continue to grow with more new members, and as a group continue to make our presence known in the contesting community as one of the major clubs.
Your Fish
Ken, W8MJ
MRRC Challenge Update
As Dayton approaches, we are closing in on the final tally for the 2005-2006 MRRC Challenge, the club's internal competition recognizing member activity over the past contest season. The Challenge is described on the MRRC web site, and was also the topic of an informative article in the May/June 2007 issue of the National Contest Journal on page 19.
At the MRRC Dayton meeting at noon on Saturday of the Hamvention®, we will be awarding the MRRC Challenge plaque(s) to the winner of the 2005-2006 Challenge, and certificates to the top ten finishers as well. So as to not spoil the surprise, we'll not provide an update in this issue. You'll just have to come to the meeting to find out who won (maybe it was YOU).
73,
Don, K8BB
MRRC Challenge Coordinator