April 2021

HAMster Group Meet & Greet

29/04/21 18:26

I was going through some old CD’s that I had storing HAMster Group photographs of events and activities and came across this photo. This was a trip down memory lane for me, and I am sure many of you out there as well. This photo was taken at our very first Meet & Greet. This event was held October of 2007.

For our First Breakfast get together, we decided to meet at the Taco Cabana in New Braunfels as a large percentage of our membership was coming in From Austin, with the other half coming from San Antonio, so this was decided to be a semi-center point for us all. Our first Meet & Greet was clearly a success and became a standard monthly event until the Pandemic put an end to it March of 2020.

Back then the HAMsters Group {known as the Unusual Suspects at the time} had a reputation for being one of the friendliest groups in Amateur Radio, and our popularity grew.

As I look at the picture here, it is with some wonderful memories, but also with great sadness at the number of Silent Keys in the photo.

Bill WX5W, Eddie K1EPZ, Floyd W5FGG, John KD5CEN all of whom are greatly missed and were wonderful Amateur Radio Operators and fantastic people to call friends.

It is with these memories, that I look forward to the return of the HAMster Group Meet & Greets and Swap meet once again…

A week from this Saturday on May 8th at 8:am, the HAMster Group will be meeting for our first MEET & GREET PLUS SWAP since March 2020 when the Pandemic began closing everything down.

Please join us, we want to see this event really kick back off with a bang.

We are meeting at 8:am Saturday May 8th at:

Taqueria Casa Jalisco
10696 Toepperwein Rd
Converse, Texas.

If you will take part in the swap meet, please park in the spaces directly in front of the restaurant.

I hope you can join us as we kick off a great fun activity and get the HAMsters off to a new start of fun and activities.

Greg
N5XO

April Blog

09/04/21 09:46

With more people becoming immune to COVID due to having the disease or receiving the vaccination, the States are starting to open up and activities are slowly returning to what we might almost call normal.

For over 10 years the HAMsters held a monthly Meet & Greet Breakfast and swap meet, we are happy to announce that Starting in May, we will be making a return to our Monthly Meet & Greets as well as holding our parking lot swap meets.

I am extremely excited about this, it has been 14 months since our last get together, and we have had a lot of great new people locally join the group.

So be watching your e-mail and our face book page for news on the location, date and time.

We just released HAM Talk Episode #5, and the feedback on our shows has been nothing short of amazing, we have not only received some really positive feedback on what we are trying to do, but have also gotten numerous helpful constructive criticism that was very welcome.

Starting Episode #6, we will be moving more towards technical aspects of Station building for HF & VHF/UHF Stations, as well as how to articles and reviews on trouble shooting products, Tower Safety and product reviews.

So watch for some fantastic changes to the show in Episode #6.

To check out the first 5 shows -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKA-sFSr870Vg5d_7zB_7Q

The HAMster Group is active and growing, and with more local activity, we hope to really see a uptick in not only local on air activity, but UNCLUB activity as well.

HOPE YOU JOIN US, as we kick off our first Meet & Greet in a long time.

Be Safe and ENJOY THE HOBBY.

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