CURRENT EVENTS Our next club event will be the annual club picnic, to be held at the Wilder Community Park on Aug. 24th from 10am to 2pm. The club will provide hotdogs, hamburgers and buns. Guests are asked to bring a side dish or dessert and their own drinks. The park has a covered picnic site with tables, but all guests will need to bring their own chairs. This is always a nice relaxing event. No pressure, no contest and no hurry. Just sit around the circle and enjoy the food and conversation. This year our challenge is for everyone to bring their communications "go" kit. If you had to grab your 72 hour kit and leave due to an emergency, what would you take for radio communications? It can be whatever you think is appropriate, from a cheap Baofeng to a full HF station [it was suggested that everybody show up with just a baofeng to mess with Steve, WB7VEQ, who made the suggestion for this challenge. What do you think? :-) ]. As a reward, everyone who brings their gear will receive a second ticket for the door prize at the annual Christmas party. It may not sound like much, but the door prize is always something valuable and Ham related. Park location can be found here: http://www.google.com/maps/@43.6773717,-116.9035861,17.32z | 
