Indianapolis

Radio Club

Christmas Dinner Meeting 2003

News Article

 

The December meeting, Christmas dinner and Club Awards presentation
was held at the Castleton MCL cafeteria on Friday evening the 12th.

Club members began the trek towards the MCL cafeteria only to be greeted
by the Indy north side traffic snarl caused mostly by an accident on the
I69 interstate highway just north of the I465 loop.

"Who said Amateur Radio wasn't Challenging?"
The 146.70 repeater was busy with lots of traffic reports
and suggestions for the arrival path to our dinner site.

 

As always the MCL dinner staff were very accommodating
and the food not only offered selection but good taste
and plenty of dinner conversation to start the great evening of family
Ham radio fun.

 

President Bill goodall-K9DBY began the club business meeting with
self-introductions by all attending, and then introduced new 2004 club officers. A brief and short business meeting followed.

 

 

Chuck Crist- W9IH; Awards committee and Bill - K9DBY made eight (8) Awards presentations
of appreciation for Amateur radio community service in the Indianapolis Area; to :

 

Gale - AA9WU, John - W9GRE, Steve - KB9RDS, Steve - N9OI,Maria - KB9RLG, Mike - KB9RBF,
Wade - W9JGZ and Bill - K9DBY.

 

 

 

 

Vice Pres. Trevor - N9YM presented our Guest speaker Mr. Josh Laycock from the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.

Josh is one of the IMS staff Historians and presented our group with a lot of information handouts
about the 500-race tack and its history.

He also gave us a short program about the history and
highlighted some of the major history facts, which presented
some different challenges for some of the wiser members in attendance.

Did you know that four (4) different years, a Studebaker
was the pace car for the 500 race?.

 

Jose also brought along a short video for us about IMS showing past,
present and future programs.

He invited questions from the group and ended a great presentation
with some handouts for correct answers to track history trivia questions.

 

The last agenda for the evening festivities; certainly not the least was the clubs award for the
2003 Indianapolis amateur of the year.

This year Mr. Mike Sercer - WA9FDO was presented our clubs honor.

Bill - K9DBY with the traditional "Merry Christmas & Happy New year, closed the meeting."

 

 

Article by: C.W.Crist - W9IH dec2003