[LCC] Upcoming LCC meeting - attendence

[Steve Lott]

Mark,

Thank you for encouraging us to attend as many meetings as we can

*I want to say I have benefited from EVERY meeting I have attended !!!*

It was voted at the last LCC meeting that we will give away a door prize
during each of our LCC meetings,
it is rumored that the president has a surprise for the Monroe Hamfest
with regards to the door prize at this meeting....

There will be more than One Door prize
(Guess I just ruined the surprise)

Cheers!
Steve
KG5VK


http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Mark Ketchell <k5er at arrl.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>      We are now 2 weeks out from the Monroe hamfest, Saturday, April 18.
> We have a forum/meeting scheduled for 10:45. There should be almost no
> business to cover, so most of the forum will be an update on LaQP, and a
> presentation by our President on contest logging. Rather than only a
> powerpoint, we will have a rig attached to the logging computer, to demo
> using the built in rig control to change freq, band, mode and maybe even
> make a few live contacts. Several have asked for an in depth" instruction
> on this topic, so this should be it.  Several N1MM "power users" will be
> available to answer questions.
>
>      When we formed the LCC back in 2008, we envisioned it as a means to
> get the contesters in LA together. To share information, to share
> experience, and to assist each other with hints and kinks on how to improve
> their stations and their own abilities.We have partially succeeded, as
> Louisiana is no longer a "rare" multiplier, several of us have
> built/improved our stations, and LA contesters are placing higher and
> higher in many contests. I am very proud of these accomplishments, but we
> are not done.
>
>      The founding members understood that not everybody likes to travel
> too far, so we had the idea of moving our meetings around the state at
> hamfests, so that at some point each year, every member would have a
> relatively "local" meeting they could attend. The two largest areas of
> "member density" are Monroe and Lafayette, so we have always had meetings
> at the Monroe and Rayne hamfests. We have also had meetings in Leesville,
> Slidell, Pineville and Shreveport.
>
>      Several members have regularly taken time to build presentations for
> club meetings, sharing their experience and knowledge. At most meetings, we
> ask, "if you have a topic you want to see, please let us know." We also
> solicit members who want to do a presentation to let us know.
>
>      Now to the meat of this message. At the Pineville meeting last fall,
> in the very middle of the state, there were over a dozen members in the
> building, yet we had ONLY FOUR members in the meeting. That's pretty sad.
> At the most recent meeting in Rayne, just a few weeks ago, we had 9 members
> (one joined as he came in) in the meeting, yet there were nine or ten more
> whom I visited with at the hamfest, who didn't bother to walk the 100 feet
> of so to the meeting room. I understand that I may be a fanatic about the
> hobby. Heck, I thought as contesters most of us were. Several officers, and
> myself, took off 1/2 day of work, drove almost 4 hours each way, and had
> the expense of a hotel room, in order to be there. Yet we have some who
> were in the building who just didn't walk over, and some went to eat at a
> restaurant within 10-15 minutes of their house, which they could go to most
> any time, rather than attend the meeting. I just don't understand, and
> think it is pretty darn disrespectful. If the meetings are boring, tell us
> what topic you want to see. If you don't like the current topics, volunteer
> to present one yourself. It you don't show up, participate and tell us what
> you need or expect to get out of the meetings, then its a pretty sure bet
> that the board won't plan for or put it on the agenda.
>
>      While it is great that we have members who support us financially
> with their dues, we also need your PARTICIPATION. We need your experience,
> your ideas and your opinions. Some of the young members can benefit from
> the mentoring and suggestions of someone "who has been there before." I
> realize sometimes things come up. Family, business and other things can
> sometimes keep one from attending. I want to challenge our club members to
> actually be a part of the club activities and attend at least one, if not
> several meetings a year.
>
>      Hope to see you in Monroe.
>
> 73,
> Mark, K5ER
>
>
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