Radio Reunion 2010
An Open Invitation to the Radio Reunion!
TARC will be hosting the 3rd Annual Radio Reunion on Saturday, April 24th, at 1pm.
For those who aren’t familiar with this event, the Radio Reunion started in 2008 as an event to get several local clubs together for an afternoon of fellowship, which includes our families.
One of our former members, Sandy Donahue, W4RU (SK) dubbed it “Just like a Hamfest….with chicken!” There is one further deviation from a Ham-Fest…with the exception of a talk-in station, there are NO radios…that’s right none!
As we want this to be a “family friendly” event, we leave the radios at home so the non-ham members will also want to attend. And that idea has been very successful as the attendance has been over 100 hams and their families for the first two years.
In addition, we’ve timed the event this year to coincide with Thomasville’s 89th Annual Rose Festival, so you can bring the family to see the various Rose Festival events and join us for lunch and fellowship afterwards.
The club handles the main dish, which is BBQ chicken and we ask that you bring a covered dish to fill out the table. A jar for donations will be available if you want to contribute to help offset the cost, but it’s strictly voluntary.
The important part is that we need to know beforehand if you’re coming and how many are coming with you. We don’t want to risk anyone going home hungry, plus we don’t want to buy so much that we’ll all be eating chicken for several weeks afterwards.
The deadline for that is April 16th, which gives us a week to place an order for the chickens.
Please email that information the club email address, w4ucj@arrl.net. In addition, we need to know what your side dish is so we don’t run the risk of having BBQ chicken and a LOT of chocolate cake.
Because of high attendance, the facility we used the first year got a little bit close, so we are moving to First Newark Baptist Church, which is located east of Thomasville on US 84, about 2 miles east of the last location. The physical address is 225 Russell Road. And again, the time will be 1pm.
So mark your calendars for April 24th, and plan on bringing your family to the premier ham radio event in this area…the Annual Radio Reunion…
We all hope to see you there!
And so you are sure to find the location, here is a map:
