I was going to go but after working with the WRTC and being away from my 
family 4 days on a site team for that, my wife's back is bad so she couldn't 
drive that far, I decided last minute not to go. It worked out for the best, 
a lot came up Saturday which would have been the day I would be there. I 
still haven't had one single weekend day home with not much to do since 
April and this coming weekend looks slower than most but as far as I can 
tell I'm booked on weekends currently through September and tentatively 
through October depending on how my wife is doing with our new little one 
due in November. I had to give something up to slow down and that didn't 
work out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Chao" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: ARRL Centennial Convention


> Glad you saw Rob.  You may remember that we were in the same class at
> The Seeing Eye when I bought my new cheap PaoFeng rig.--Matt, N1IBB.
>
> At 08:15 PM 7/21/2014, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>>What a trip that was!
>>
>>Only saw a couple of blind hams there besides me and Rob, KB5UJM.
>>
>>There was this guy with his guide dog. =85 We won=92t talk about that.
>>
>>But then I saw Betsy and Barb, K1EIC and K1EIR and Anne K1STM.=20
>>
>>And visited with the guys at Elecraft and the Morse Telegraph Club and =
>>others.
>>
>>But then, besides operating W100AW, Rob and I got to do something really =
>>really cool!
>>
>>Joe let us pull the big switch=85and Old Betsy, HPM=92s old spark rig, =
>>roared to life.=20
>>
>>Unfortunately, the points were kind of dirty, so the spark wasn=92t very =
>>strong.=20
>>
>>Still, who gets to crank up a 100-year-old spark rig? More importantly, =
>>The Old Man=92s 100 year old spark rig? At The Old Man=92s actual desk? =
>>With The Old Man=92s actual key?=20
>>
>>Now that right there probably made my ham radio millennium.=20
>>
>>Buddy, KB5ELV