Roger Rines W1RDR has been hard at work with the website and has given it a facelift. First he added a Table of Contents to the Home Page. Then he installed a web page on the monthly rides the BA-MARC membership is conducting. The ride schedule has also been integrated into our calendar so that those who peruse our activities can better understand our diverse interests. There is also a new web page that will be our Elmer contribution for those MARC prospects wanting to become both members and licensed Amateurs. The local GoldWing Road Riders Association (GWRRA) has had a significant number of their members expressing an interest in MARC and Roger has already scheduled a meeting with them to discuss training materials and the commitments needed to make it work. None of us know where Roger the finds time and energy to do all of this. He is a devoted and very much appreciated leader.

David Sawyer K1DRS is working hard now that our meeting day and time have been changed from Sunday afternoon to Thursday at 7pm. We realize that this makes it a little harder for MARC members down South to attend the meetings, but this was a direct wish of the membership to free up a Sunday once a month. David is in the process of creating posters and other materials for advertisement and distribution showing where we meet and what we are all about. David is feeling much better, but still carries his arm in a sling and a gun in his holster. That is a GREAT western hat too, David.

Don Weber KA7QQV is leading the effort for one of our next big support events, the Tour de Cure on May 19, 2002. J.P. Rouland is assisting and his van can be equipped for repeater or relay services that may give a unique capability for this event. Warren, Max Malzkuhn K6MAX, and Don Weber are test-working the proposed route to insure our communications success for this event.

Max has been indicating that he will be out of the brace from his knee surgery and back to riding, maybe even as early as this week.

Larry McDonald, K6ACE is now our Events Leader. All the communications events we support will now come under Larry's leadership.

Sam Borland AD6MZ has been up to his usual cloak and dagger tactics. Seems he has a new motorcycle, a Sabre, according to the member page on the website. Must have been keeping it in the closet until nearer Christmas. Sam also didn't tell us about his elbow injury which has now healed. We can appreciate that with all of the fodder everyone else took about their injuries, surgery, and foibles over the last quarter.

Warren has developed the concept of the Ride Schedule and is acting as road captain, developing motorcycle rider safety training classes, is the impromptu recording secretary at the monthly meeting, doing treasury/comptroller functions, and is the de facto creator and distributor of this newsletter. Ralph Burr KG6BHP and Roger are acting as editors. Warren is still in a cast for 2 more weeks, because he is such a bad actor that he was recast in the same part for that amount of time. He is still dreaming about motorcycles but forgets what it is like riding one. He is real good at kicking tires, though....

Everyone knows that Warren much prefers his Harley-Davidson Ultra to its stable mate, a Honda GL-1800A GoldWing. Recently a Harley owner asked Warren where his "Pearl Harbor Special" was being kept. Without hesitation, he responded "In my garage until December 7th, 2001".

Our other members have been very supportive of our efforts one way or another. We are planning to run a trip to the Southland to attend the MARC annual meeting in May. Because that event conflicts with our Yosemite ride the same Sunday, we will probably move the Yosemite ride event (maybe some others too) as soon as we can discuss it at our next meeting.

Sandra Pacheco KG6HHP is going to be our hostess at our hopefully soon-to-be-annual Christmas party, replacing our regular membership meeting for December. We now have more than 15 members, and if spouses and others show up we may have to move it to the big ballroom at the Marriott in Monterey. But, there is going to be plenty of food, music, and very good company.

This coming Wednesday (November 28) we'll have yet another informal and somewhat impromptu dinner meeting at the Country Inn in South San Jose. Since the Wednesday day and time are pretty hard traveling at 5:30pm, you never know who is going to show up. Last week it unexpectedly was me, and this week it might even be Tom Brokaw. We are starting to make some news and some noise.

Seems like just about everybody had a turkey over Thanksgiving. I used my Big Green Egg to smoke one. Since saying that I smoked a turkey, it has been suggested that I explain how that is done since most of the queries came from cigarette smokers who couldn't understand how to get your mouth around one. It's just like cigarettes, really. You smoke one at a time and get your mouth around them one at a time. If you inhale though, you'll probably make a trip to the emergency room. The same effects apply too, as if you eat too many cigarettes. You're probably not going to feel good for a few days. And you are not going to feel well either if you are the type that normally has good tactile function. The good part is that you don't need to decide which. It just happens.

Well, so much for this issue of the Newsletter. Bring on the persiflage!

Warren,
K6PHW