October 3, 2017

Net Control Station KA5DON conducted the weekly 80m (3.862 MHz) net on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2017. There were 6 checked in with no formal traffic listed. Net was opened at 0000z (1900 CST) and closed at 0018z (1918 CST).

KB5AGW, VANCLEAVE, MS, POST 1992, PUFL, TALARC
KA5DON, VANCLEAVE, MS, POST 1992 PUFL, TALARC
W5TUT, HATTIESBURG, MS, AL MEMBER
KB5PCI, GULFPORT, MS, AL MEMBER, TALARC
K5RMD, BYROM, MS, NON VET
KF5ENO, PICAYUNE, MS, CHECKED IN AFTER NET CLOSED, NO DETAILS

DISCUSSION:

DISCUSSED VETERANS DAY SPECIAL EVENT FOR K9TAL AND K5TAL ON NOV. 11.

REMINDED PARTICIPANTS ABOUT AL TEMPORARY EMERGENCY FUNDS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER.

ENCOURAGED ALL LISTENING TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT TALARC AND THE NETS AVAILABLE TO HAMS, WHETHER MEMBERS OF A.L. OR NOT.

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

ALIBI - I ATTENDED THE DAY IN THE PARK EVENT AT STARKVILLE, MS, COMMEMORATING THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF MFJ ENTERPRISES. TOURED THE MFJ, HI-GAIN, CUSHCRAFT AND AMERITRON FACILITIES. MET WITH NUMEROUS VETS (IF THEY HAD A VIETNAM VETERAN HAT ON OR ANYTHING IDENTIFYING THEM AS A VET, I GAVE THEM OUR NET INFO; AT LEAST 3 SAID THEY WERE LEGION MEMBERS, AND MOST OF THE REST OF THEM SAID THEY WOULD GIVE THE NET A TRY.

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Don
KA5DON