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</head><body><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">will be held on Saturday, February 24th immediately following our customary</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">luncheon at Tippy's Tacos. It will begin about 2 PM and, as usual, will be held</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">at LinaSpace. The address is 2701 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax VA 22031. It's</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">a few minutes away from Tippy's.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Our speaker will be Gary Sessums, KC5QCN, who was part of the "Force of 50"</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">hams who assisted with emergency communications in Puerto Rico following the</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">passage of Hurricane Maria last September. The operation is described in the the</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">December, 2017 issue of QST, page 66.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Gary will be joining us for lunch at Tippy's before the meeting and his presentation.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">The luncheon and meeting are open to everybody. You don't have to be an AMRAD</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">meeting to join us.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">73,</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style">Dick, W3HWN</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br></p></body></html>