Hello to all. I hope you have 
done well over the past month. I 
would like to invite you all to our 
August meeting, where Herm 
Belderock, WVØR, will present 
us with a program on NTS 
message handling. I think fewer 
and fewer people are aware of 
how to deal with NTS messages, 
and if you have an interest this 
will be a good time for you to 
attend. We will plan on the 
meeting starting around 6:00 
P.M. with pizza and a presentation.  We will actually try to have 
food available a bit ahead of 
that to help us all get a bite to 
eat before Herm's presentation.
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As our meeting will be at the 
church again this month and we 
are having food, we will skip our 
normal eating meeting, and we 
need to be out of the church by 
8:00 P.M., as they have some 
other activities as well that 
night. It might be a good idea to 
show up around 5:45 to get 
some food in before the interactive meeting.
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Also, the repeater committee 
has been together and made 
some choices for things to work 
on with reference to the 
repeater. I hope and believe the 
club will support the choices 
made by the committee, and 
while there is no promise it will 
fix our issue, these are some 
things that need to be done. 
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Again I'd like to remind you 
all that the meeting will be limited time wise, so we will need to 
keep any discussion and covering of past issues limited.
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On October 3rd we will be 
providing communications for 
the Yellow Brick Road Bicycle 
Ride. We need as many hams 
as possible on this bike ride, as 
there are 4 routes (overlapping 
at points), and the longest of 
which is in the neighborhood of 
80 miles. Get with 
Sylvia (KC&Oslash;YJO) if you are able 
to help with this ride. As it stands 
we may not have too many fixed 
hams, but more mobile. Feel 
free to offer ideas, but again, 
we've done these several times 
with great success, now so let's 
make sure it is constructive.
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I hope you will all join us for 
the meeting on August 14th at 
the Manhattan Church of Christ, 
2510 Dickens Ave. We are not 
sure what room we will be in, but 
we will have tables to eat at and 
work on our presentation by 
WV&Oslash;R.
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If you would like to have 
pizza at the meeting, please let 
us know ASAP and plan on bringing $5 per adult. Any money left over will go towards the picnic in 
September. Water will be available on location, but if you want 
something else to drink, bring 
that as well.
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We look forward to seeing 
you there.