*****POSTPONED!! The Lonely Guys! Lonely Guys Luncheon / Get-Together 1/24/15

[steve_qix]

The LonelyGuys get-together which was going to happen this weekend (Jan 24th) has been postponed due to the impending snow storm coming in the same day.   A new date will be announced.
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Calling the Lonely Guys!

The Lonely Guys Net meets on Saturday mornings at 8:00 on or about 3875 (give or take QRM, etc.).  The purpose of the Net is fellowship; we seek to support each other in our RF loneliness.  There is a weekly topic, and we generally get from between 20 to 30 check-ins per week.  It is a very fun net and joining is simple.  Each member is assigned a lifetime net number.

Anyway, The Lonely Guys Net is having a Luncheon and get-together on Saturday January 24th at 12:00 for net members and their spouses at:

The Maple Tree Cafe
781 Hopmeadow St
Simsbury, CT 06070
Phone number (860) 651-1297

Note that we are encouraging net members to bring their spouses along as well !

We have a function room reserved for this event.  Several guest speakers have been engaged, including someone reasonably high up in the ARRL.   Off hand, I don't remember who it is, as I did not personally make these arrangements.

We are also having custom and very good quality Lonely Guys hats made up for net members.  More details will be forthcoming.

Questions?  Contact me (Steve WA1QIX), Peter W1ZZZ or Jim WA1UQM.

This is always a fun event with plenty of surprises!  If you're a member of the Lonely Guys, please let us know if you are coming (if we have not already done so on the air during the net) so we can get an approximate head count.

Email me at wa1qix@classeradio.com.  I am also good in QRZ.

[steve_qix]

The event has been postponed - a new date will be announced shortly.

[Steve - K4HX]

You New Englanders are getting soft. 

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... postponed due to the impending snow storm ...

[steve_qix]

I know!

We got all geared up for "global warming" and - well, it hasn't happened.  It's getting COLDER     We well 

Regards,  steve

[W2VW]

You New Englanders are getting soft. 

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... postponed due to the impending snow storm ...

That may apply to footballs.

[W3RSW]

And maybe all the lonely guys weren't so lonely when spouses were invited. 

[Pete, WA2CWA]

"Lonely guys"; bring the spouse; what's that say 

[steve_qix]

I'll get the long version of the Lonely Guys preamble.  Being a "Lonely Guy" doesn't necessarily mean you live alone or are some kind of a hermit    There is a greater definition.

[Steve - K4HX]

It's all tongue-in-cheek. Kinda like the DX-60 Net. No one using a DX-60 ever checks in. 

[W3RSW]

My inference was that the lonely guys would finally be able to "git ahway frum the whimmin."
But if their invited...

Yourn ,
A reel 500pf Dx60 into a linyeear.

[steve_qix]

This is the Lonely Guys preamble (long form) which explains the net more fully 

Today's (1/24) net ran from 8:00 until just about 11:00.  A lot of check ins!!!

There is always a topic of the day, and we have a get-together once in a while.  The next one is scheduled for March 7th.  The get-together which was scheduled for today (1/24) was cancelled due to heavy snow in the area.

If it’s Saturday, it must be the Lonely Guys
Calling the Lonely Guys, the Lonely Guys, only the Lonely Guys.

This is W1ZZZ, Peter, located in Wellesley, Mass.

The Lonely Guys AM Network meets on Saturday mornings at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time on 3875 kHz, give or take QRM or splatter. The purpose of the net is fellowship.  We seek to support each other in our RF loneliness.

Being a Lonely Guy doesn't necessarily mean that one lives alone in the wilderness — although several of our members do.  Some Lonely Guys are married or have girlfriends or significant others and live and work in the heart of Manhattan or Boston or Hartford surrounded by millions of people.
 
Nevertheless, they still exhibit classic signs of Lonely Guy behavior: excessive, almost compulsive listening to 75-meter AM; talking into the small hours of the morning to other lonely guys whom they see at most twice a year at a hamfest or whom they never see; working with a jeweler’s skill and a mad scientist’s intensity restoring rigs that reflect their childhoods. They desperately try to recapture times past when they sat in tube-lit shacks listening to their Dad’s friends, their uncle’s buddies, or their Elmer’s colleagues tossing signals into a forest of heterodynes.

Lonely guys talk about many things, from aviation to rock ‘n roll, from baseball to philosophy, from push-pull amplifiers to pushy ex-girlfriends. Lonely Guys are amateur radio operators who spend their Saturday mornings alone in their shacks talking to other Lonely Guys.

We are the Lonely Guys.