AMRAD Meeting Space and BooyaSDR Meeting

[fgentges at mindspring.com]

We have had problems finding a meeting space and have had to try and 
find one each month.  The Dolly Madison Library now had so much demand 
for their meeting room that it is almost always spoken for when we need it.

Mark Kanawati has formed a space related company "Linaspace" and will be 
developing satellites etc.  He has a space near where we meet at TACOS 
and he has made it available to us for meetings.

He has some chairs but we may need more for our meetings so if anybody 
has some spare folding chairs they can be used.  I have several that I 
will bring to the space.

He has a large screen TV and we have the AMRAD projector.  I will bring 
a projection screen to hang on the wall.

I suggest we go to the third Thursday of each month for meetings and use 
his space.  He has been very generous in offering this so we must make 
every effort to clean up the space after meetings.

A huge thank you to Mark for making this available on a regular basis. 
This solves an ongoing problem.

For starters, we will have a speaker on the 23rd of January.  Rob Bowers 
has arranged for Reginald Eisenblatt to talk about his SDR work and his 
web site at

http://booyasdr.sourceforge.net/

I am looking forward to this meeting as the BooyaSDR looks very 
interesting. (I want one.)  After this date we will try to arrange 
meetings for the third Thursdays.  Obviously, a special speaker who will 
be in town at another time can be arranged for.

This new meeting place is at:

2701 Prosperity Ave
Suite 215
Fairfax, VA  22031

There is a nice parking lot is adjacent to the building.  We will learn 
just how to enter and set up for the meetings.  He is on the second 
floor and there is an elevator.  The entrance door locks at 7 PM so 
after that we will need to call Mark at 703 628 1821 for entry. There is 
a nice view on Google maps for this address.

This place is only one block from the Metro.

Again, a big thanks to Mark for making this available to AMRAD.

Frank K0BRA