Christmas 2019

The Christmas Party for 2019 was a big success. Lots of food, and because of the environment, ample opportunity to chat during the meal. A large part of the credit has to go to David Z, as well as the many others who brought side dishes and desserts.

Two awards were presented during the evening. The club showed its appreciation to Patrick for his four years of service as club Treasurer. Over the years, Patrick has served as every officer the club has, including President. The second award went to our outgoing president, Matthew, who led the club to record high membership over the last two years. His laid back leadership style, and ability to encourage volunteerism was a winning combination.

At the same time we acknowledge club officers past, we recognize the new club officers who now take charge: Mike Shreve, our new club President, John Stanford, our new VP, Todd Rush, our new Treasurer, and Bill Johnson, or new old Secretary. It is up to our officers, board members, and every member in the club to move the Lakeland Amateur Radio Club ever closer to achieving its three objectives: Comradery, Education, and Service.

Click her for pictures taken at the dinner.

Some interesting stats on our Christmas Dinner Meeting
   Expected to attend 69.
   Actual attendees 57.
   Number who paid but did not attend for one reason or another 5.
   This would have brought our attendance to 62, and within 5 of the expected   number.

Last year only call signs were recorded. The count was 32. This year, the number of call signs recorded was 38, or six more than last year.

Attendance at the December Meeting

CALL FIRST LAST LICENSE ARRL ARES SKYWARN
AA4HT Robert Van Winkle Amateur Extra YES NO
AB4XK Chet Carruth Amateur Extra YES NO
AE4RM Roger Meadows Amateur Extra YES NO YES
K0ZD John Stanford Amateur Extra YES NO
K1DU Frederick Delaney Amateur Extra YES NO
K2OU Gary Perkins Amateur Extra NO NO NO
K4EMT Sarah Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
K4JZ William Aten Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
KB4FHP Joseph Lunsford General YES YES
KG2G Bert Onachila Amateur Extra YES NO
KI4CDY Patrick O’Neil Amateur Extra YES YES YES
KI4EFL Donald Jeerings General NO NO NO
KI4WRX David Zdanowicz Amateur Extra YES YES YES
KI4ZMV William Johnson Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KJ4DSQ Roger Land Technician YES YES YES
KJ4UW George Mann Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KK4LYQ William Paul Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KM4STS Liam Holzer General NO NO NO
KM4STT Aimee Holzer Amateur Extra NO NO
KM4STU Leon Holzer General NO NO
KM4UYX Kenneth Kozla General NO NO NO
KN4LEH Danny Dickey Technician NO YES YES
KN4OTS Harley Leavitt General NO NO
KN4PIH Richard Lennon Technician NO NO
KN4UJI Larry Collins Technician NO NO YES
KN4VIH Carolyn Sanchez Technician NO NO NO
KN4VII Robert Sanchez Technician NO NO NO
KT2T Michael Oliver Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
N4ESS Richard Kennedy Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
N4HCZ Robert Griggs Amateur Extra NO NO
N4PEG Margaret Kennedy Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
N6MRS Michael Shreve General YES YES YES
NJ4Y Matthew Stevens Amateur Extra YES YES YES
W4EMT Eric Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
W4JGC J. Culler Amateur Extra YES NO YES
W4XDS James Stewart Amateur Extra YES YES YES
WA4MMO Geoffrey Schuck Amateur Extra YES YES NO
WB6ZEQ Herman Smith Amateur Extra YES YES NO







Guests






Glenn Smith



KGB3VTY Mark Wagner



KM4PYG Warren Coons



 
Attendance Summary 
The following is a summary of the attendance by member prior to the December meeting, and taking into account that we missed a meeting due to a hurricane warning. Data for nine of those months are recorded below. Data is ranked by number of meetings attended.

CALL N FIRST LAST CLASS OFF BOARD ARRL ARES SKYW
K4EMT 9 Sarah Clark AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
KB0QMN 9 George Rezac General NO NO NO NO
KI4ZMV 9 William Johnson AmateurExtra SECR NO YES NO YES
KN4FRA 9 Susan Pugh General NO NO YES YES
KN4PIH 9 Richard Lennon Technician NO NO NO NO
N4ESS 9 Richard Kennedy AmateurExtra NO YES LIFE NO YES
N4HCZ 9 Robert Griggs AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
N4PEG 9 Margaret Kennedy AmateurExtra NO NO LIFE NO YES
NJ4Y 9 Matthew Stevens AmateurExtra PRES NO YES YES YES
W4EMT 9 Eric Clark AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
WB6ZEQ 9 Herman Smith AmateurExtra NO NO YES YES NO
K0ZD 8 John Stanford AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
K1DU 8 Frederick Delaney AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
K4JZ 8 William Aten AmateurExtra NO NO LIFE YES YES
KI4CDY 8 Patrick O’Neil AmateurExtra TREA NO YES YES YES
KI4WRX 8 David Zdanowi AmateurExtra NO YES YES YES YES
KJ4UW 8 George Mann AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
N6MRS 8 Michael Shreve General VP NO YES NO YES
WA4MMO 8 Geoffrey Schuck AmateurExtra NO YES YES NO
AA4HT 7 Robert Van Wink AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
KB4FHP 7 Joseph Lunsford General NO NO YES YES
KJ4DSQ 7 Roger Land Technician NO NO YES YES YES
KK4LYQ 7 William Paul AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
KM4STT 7 Aimee Holzer AmateurExtra NO YES NO NO
KM4STU 7 Leon Holzer General NO NO NO NO
KN4OTS 7 Harley Leavitt General NO NO NO NO
KN4SAU 7 John Beatty General NO NO NO NO
N4FRK 7 Victor Saxe General NO NO NO NO
N7CUC 7 Samuel Shaver AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
W4XDS 7 James Stewart AmateurExtra NO YES YES YES
W8DUK 7 Richard Grubb AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
KM4STS 6 Liam Holzer General NO NO NO NO NO
KN4OTO 6 Charlotte Shaver Technician NO NO NO NO
KT2T 6 Michael Oliver AmateurExtra NO YES LIFE YES YES
WX4AMS 6 Andrew Stevens AmateurExtra NO NO YES YES YES
AB1DX 5 Oliver Richards AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO NO
AB4KA 5 James Russ AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
AB4XK 5 Chet Carruth AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
AG4E 5 Robert Young AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
K2OU 5 Gary Perkins AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
KF4Q 5 William Busbin AmateurExtra NO NO YES YES
KJ4WFS 5 Tom Evans AmateurExtra NO NO YES YES
KK4BMI 5 David LaFave General NO YES LIFE YES
KK4ITX 5 John Leahy AmateurExtra NO NO YES YES YES
KK4OGM 5 Ronald Herring AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
KK4VCN 5 Eleanor Marshall Technician NO NO NO NO YES
KM4DMD 5 John Laurent AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
KN4BOE 5 Thomas Conner General NO NO YES NO
KN4FBD 5 John McCullou General NO NO YES NO
KN4PVO 5 Jesus Perez Technician NO NO YES NO
KQ4KX 5 Richard Sharp AmateurExtra NO YES LIFE NO YES
NC8I 5 Robert Berquist AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
W4JGC 5 J. Culler AmateurExtra NO YES YES NO YES
W7STR 5 Springer Rush AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
WB4OMG 5 Harmon Morgan AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
K3JAZ 4 Larry Turner General NO NO NO NO
KB4BDQ 4 Judith Bukoski General NO NO LIFE NO NO
KF4TPW 4 Lydia Morgan AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
KI4EFL 4 Donald Jeerings General NO NO NO NO NO
KK4YXR 4 Franklin Fitzgerald Technician NO NO YES YES YES
KN4LEH 4 Danny Dickey Technician NO NO NO YES YES
N2TE 4 R. Marchese AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
WB8QQR 4 Norman Nissen Advanced NO NO YES NO NO
WX4NEX 4 Norman Xanders Technician NO NO NO YES YES
KG4YNI 3 Ernest Haynes AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
KM4QBT 3 John Rogers Technician NO NO NO NO
AE4RM 2 Roger Meadows AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO YES
K1OPQ 2 David Perrin AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
K1TZD 2 Gregory Burton AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
K4QW 2 Chris LeBlanc AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
KI4CRI 2 Charles Gribble AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
KK4TSG 2 Ronald Herring General NO NO NO NO NO
KM4UYX 2 Kenneth Kozla General NO NO NO NO NO
KN4PII 2 Sharon Kirkland Technician NO NO NO NO
KN4SAV 2 Edward Schairer AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
KN4UJI 2 Larry Collins Technician NO NO NO NO YES
N1GPD 2 Susan Perrin General NO NO YES NO
W4MAG 2 Michael Girard AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO NO
K2TDR 1 Ringo Breton AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
KG2G 1 Bert Onachila AmateurExtra NO NO YES NO
KM4BAO 1 Robert Doherty General NO NO YES NO YES
KM4CUG 1 Debra Leahy Technician NO NO YES NO
KM4CUI 1 Christy Evans Technician NO NO YES NO
WZ1P 1 Daniel Gagnon AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
K1TDR 0 Stacy Breton General NO NO NO NO
K4CBN 0 Gregory George General NO NO NO NO
K4LKM 0 David Robinson General NO NO YES NO
K4NR 0 Mark Lytle AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO
KA9AHB 0 Frances Roncone General NO NO YES NO
KE4IPE 0 Russell Gunter General NO NO NO NO
KG4BAS 0 Nestor Monllor Technician NO NO NO YES
KI4DNO 0 Larry Walker General NO NO YES YES YES
KI4HIM 0 Norma Gribble AmateurExtra NO NO NO NO NO
KI4OFV 0 Trudy Oliver Technician NO NO LIFE NO NO
KJ4AYU 0 Victoria Walker Technician NO NO YES NO NO
KJ4ZRU 0 Ansel Monllor Technician NO NO NO NO NO
KK4ASD 0 Gabrielle Monllor Technician NO NO NO NO NO
KK4RAH 0 Stephanie Hildreth Technician NO YES NO NO
KN3ABC 0 William Herren General NO NO YES NO
KN4RMO 0 Daniel Sharp Technician NO NO NO NO
N4HES 0 Arthur Hess General NO NO YES NO
N7HUQ 0 Steven Schultz General NO NO NO NO YES
WA4YFN 0 Robert Siegel General NO NO YES NO
WA9POQ 0 Edwin Cox General NO NO YES NO
WD4DGC 0 John Halley General NO NO NO NO

LARC Christmas Dinner 2019

Time to dust off the LARC Christmas wreath and get ready for the annual Christmas Dinner. We are doing things a little different this year, so be sure to read what follows carefully.

 
The LARC Christmas Dinner will be held 
December 2. (First Monday)
6:00 PM
The Parkview Baptist Church
Admission $10 per adult. No charge for children.
The menu includes Mission BBQ
Members are encourage to bring a dessert to share
There will be door prizes 
You can purchase your tickets at the November Meeting, or pay at the door. However, if you choose to pay at the door, please let us know by filling out the form you will receive in the mail. We need this information to plan for the number of guests. 

November 2019 Meeting

Taking the test was like a walk in the park

Dr. Louis, KN4ZPC,  Byron, KN4ZOZ, Glenn, W4JGC VE

We had an exceptionally busy testing night. 
Here are four more.
Jimmy, AB4KA VE, Vlad, KX4TH, Bob, KN4ZPB, Jose, KN4ZPD, Javier, KN4ZPA,      Adalberto, KN4ZPL, Richard, W8DUK VE

Congratulations to all. Each candidate passed the Technician Exam. Val, second from the left, is an Extra, and President of the Polytechnic Radio Club.

For some insight into how the present generation relates to Amateur Radio, Click Here

Election Results

President: Mike Shreve
Vice President: John Standford
Secretrary: Bill Johnson 
Treasurer: Todd Rush

Board members:
Jim Stewart, Eleanor Marshall, Glenn Culler, Rich Kennedy, Geoff Schuck, Matthew Stevens, Mike Oliver, Dave Zdanowicz

This Evening’s Presentation

Our presenter for the meeting was Mike Shreve. His presentation Easy HF Antennas can be found on our website. 
Click here for copy of Mike’s presentation
Mike demonstrated how one offset center dipole can be made to work several bands.The secret is finding the best overall length and side to side ratio.  

For less of a challenge, you might try a center fed dipole tuned for one frequency. Get some wire at the home center and experiment. Calculating the length is as easy as (1)234, or (2)468. To find the length of one (1) side of a dipole in feet, divide 234 by the frequency in MHz. To find the length in feet of both sides (2) divide 468 by the frequency. Add a little extra and then put it to the test. Helps if you have a friend with an antenna analyzer. This makes tweaking so much easier, and working with a friend is much more fun.

CALL FIRST LAST LICENSE ARRL ARES SKYWARN
AA4HT Robert Van Winkle Amateur Extra YES NO
AB1DX Oliver Richards Amateur Extra YES NO NO
AB4KA James Russ Amateur Extra YES NO
AB4XK Chet Carruth Amateur Extra YES NO
AE4RM Roger Meadows Amateur Extra YES NO YES
AG4E Robert Young Amateur Extra NO NO
K0ZD John Stanford Amateur Extra YES NO
K1DU Frederick Delaney Amateur Extra YES NO
K1TZD Gregory Burton Amateur Extra NO NO
K2OU Gary Perkins Amateur Extra NO NO NO
K3JAZ Larry Turner General NO NO
K4EMT Sarah Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
K4JZ William Aten Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
KB0QMN George Rezac General NO NO
KB4BDQ Judith Bukoski General LIFE NO NO
KB4FHP Joseph Lunsford General YES YES
KF4TPW Lydia Morgan Amateur Extra NO NO
KI4CDY Patrick O’Neil Amateur Extra YES YES YES
KI4CRI Charles Gribble Amateur Extra NO NO NO
KI4EFL Donald Jeerings General NO NO NO
KI4WRX David Zdanowicz Amateur Extra YES YES YES
KI4ZMV William Johnson Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KJ4DSQ Roger Land Technician YES YES YES
KJ4UW George Mann Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KJ4WFS Tom Evans Amateur Extra YES YES
KK4LYQ William Paul Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KK4OGM Ronald Herring Amateur Extra NO NO
KK4VCN Eleanor Marshall Technician NO NO YES
KM4STS Liam Holzer General NO NO NO
KM4STT Aimee Holzer Amateur Extra NO NO
KM4STU Leon Holzer General NO NO
KM4UYX Kenneth Kozla General NO NO NO
KN4FBD John McCullough General YES NO
KN4FRA Susan Pugh General YES YES
KN4LEH Danny Dickey Technician NO YES YES
KN4OTS Harley Leavitt General NO NO
KN4PIH Richard Lennon Technician NO NO
KN4UJI Larry Collins Technician NO NO YES
KT2T Michael Oliver Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
N4ESS Richard Kennedy Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
N4FRK Victor Saxe General NO NO
N4HCZ Robert Griggs Amateur Extra NO NO
N4PEG Margaret Kennedy Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
N6MRS Michael Shreve General YES NO YES
N7CUC Samuel Shaver Amateur Extra NO NO
NC8I Robert Berquist Amateur Extra YES NO
NJ4Y Matthew Stevens Amateur Extra YES YES YES
W4EMT Eric Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
W4JGC J. Culler Amateur Extra YES NO YES
W4XDS James Stewart Amateur Extra YES YES
W7STR Springer Rush Amateur Extra YES NO
W8DUK Richard Grubb Amateur Extra YES NO YES
WA4MMO Geoffrey Schuck Amateur Extra YES NO
WB4OMG Harmon Morgan Amateur Extra NO NO
WB6ZEQ Herman Smith Amateur Extra YES YES NO
WB8QQR Norman Nissen Advanced YES NO NO
Guests and Relatives
K2OU-XYL Terry Perkins
K7ODK Don Chapman
KB0QMN-YL Min-Hee
KD2CGG Isaac Taylor
KN4LEH Danny Dickey
W7OBA Dan
W8IAO James Kelley

As a reminder:

LARC has two Breakfast Meetings each week. The second is at Fred’s. See the sidebar for more information.

LARC, We Have A Problem

 Sometimes things don’t work out the way you would have liked.

It saddens me to report that a problem with our adaptation of the Allstar System was just discovered. Our team is working to resolve it. Until it is resolved, I am asking everyone to hold off using Allstar. You will be notified as soon as the problem is fixed.

Congratulations Florida Polytechnic Team!

Four members of the Florida Polytechnic University graduates received or upgraded their Amateur Radio Licenses. Good luck with your careers in electronics. I can’t think of a better hobby for future EEs.

Kudos to Vlad KX4TH for motivating his classmates to get into ham radio.  

Left to right Vlad KX4TH Extra, Moshe KN4YUG Tech, Jayla KN4YUH Tech, Peter  KN4YUE General, and Rich N4ESS.

Left to right Peter KN4YUE General, Moshe KN4YUG Tech, Yesabel KN4YUF Tech, and Bill K4JZ

Attendance 
We had 59 members and guests attend this evening.  A special thanks to Top WB6ZEQ for making sure everyone is accounted for. This may seem like a small thing, but it is the collection of small things that makes our club work. Thank you.

CALL CALL LAST CLASS ARRL ARES SKYWARN
AA4HT Robert Van Winkle Amateur Extra YES NO
AB4KA James Russ Amateur Extra YES NO
AE4RM Roger Meadows Amateur Extra YES NO YES
AG4E Robert Young Amateur Extra NO NO
K0ZD John Stanford Amateur Extra YES NO
K1DU Frederick Delaney Amateur Extra YES NO
K3JAZ Larry Turner General NO NO
K4EMT Sarah Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
K4JZ William Aten Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
KB0QMN George Rezac General NO NO
KB4BDQ Judith Bukoski General LIFE NO NO
KB4FHP Joseph Lunsford General YES YES
KI4CRI Charles Gribble Amateur Extra NO NO NO
KI4EFL Donald Jeerings General NO NO NO
KI4WRX David Zdanowicz Amateur Extra YES YES YES
KI4ZMV William Johnson Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KJ4DSQ Roger Land Technician YES YES YES
KJ4UW George Mann Amateur Extra YES NO YES
KK4BMI David LaFave General LIFE YES
KK4VCN Eleanor Marshall Technician NO NO YES
KK4YXR Franklin Fitzgerald Technician YES YES YES
KM4STS Liam Holzer General NO NO
KM4STT Aimee Holzer Amateur Extra NO NO
KM4STU Leon Holzer General NO NO
KN4FBD John McCullough General YES NO
KN4FRA Susan Pugh General YES YES
KN4LEH Danny Dickey Technician NO NO
KN4OTO Charlotte Shaver Technician NO NO
KN4PIH Richard Lennon Technician NO NO
KN4SAU John Beatty General NO NO
KN4SAV Edward Schairer Amateur Extra YES NO
KN4UJI Larry Collins Technician NO NO NO
KQ4KX Richard Sharp Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
KT2T Michael Oliver Amateur Extra LIFE YES YES
N4ESS Richard Kennedy Amateur Extra LIFE NO YES
N4FRK Victor Saxe General NO NO
N4HCZ Robert Griggs Amateur Extra NO NO
N4PEG Margaret Kennedy Amateur Extra YES NO YES
N6MRS Michael Shreve General YES NO YES
N7CUC Samuel Shaver Amateur Extra NO NO
NC8I Robert Berquist Amateur Extra YES NO
NJ4Y Matthew Stevens Amateur Extra YES YES YES
W4EMT Eric Clark Amateur Extra NO NO NO
W4JGC J. Culler Amateur Extra YES NO YES
W4XDS James Stewart Amateur Extra YES YES
W7STR Springer Rush Amateur Extra YES NO
W8DUK Richard Grubb Amateur Extra YES NO YES
WA4MMO Geoffrey Schuck Amateur Extra YES NO
WB6ZEQ Herman Smith Amateur Extra YES NO NO
WB8QQR Norman Nissen Advanced YES NO NO
GUESTS
KB3VTY Mark
KM4PYG Warren
KN4VIH Diane
KN4VII Bob
KN4WGD Don
N9AXT ? Preston
W4JFS John
Glenn Smith
Jam Rezac

Try Something Different

Suppose with one click you could connect to any one of over 400 Ham Radios around the world.

Here is the link that will get you started. https://www.sdr.hu/  

But read on before you click on it, read on.

When you click on this link you will see a list of over 400 stations that are streaming what comes into their radio onto the Internet. Reception varies around the world, so if you are interested in QSO’s in the USA, search on USA. If you are just curious, you can click on any of the stations listed and scan through frequencies in any mode from about 0 to 30 MgHz. Be sure to select the appropriate Mode. The software takes a little getting use to, but it is for the most part intuitive, and you can’t do any harm by pushing buttons. So feel free to experiment. I have tried this on my tower, my Samsung Tablet, and even my Android phone. I got it to work on each, but clicking on tiny buttons on a phone is problematic at best. Go with a laptop, tower or tablet for best results.

This is the first thing you will see when you click on the above link.

I was mainly interested in stations in the USA so I typed USA into the search bar and came up with several choices. The station in Idaho seemed popular, so I picked it. Note, you can tell the popularity of a station by checking out the votes to the right of each station.

I thought I would try the 40 meter band so I clicked around 7 MHz. This is what the screen looked like on the CW portion of the band. Those blobs to the left are dots and dashes in CW. The control console is the grey box to the lower right. It contains all the controls you need to do just about anything you would be capable of doing if you had a radio sitting in front of you. In this case I clicked on the CW button, zoomed in with the + magnifier, and nudged the frequency up and down with the smaller circled pluses and minuses. Here is what the Idaho site looked like.

Next I decided to explore the voice part of the band. First I clicked on the LSB button, and then I moved up the band where I found a voice conversation. To move up you can either click and drag the blue section to the left, or click on the grey bar at the top further up the band. You will learn other ways to accomplish the same thing as you become familiar with the software. So play. You can’t hurt anything. This is what the voice section of the band looked like.

The conversation I tuned in on was between two hams discussing loop antennas.
And, just so you know what to expect in the way of audio quality I attached a sound clip that I recorded. The discussion centered around the need for an variable tuning capacitor. The higher the transmitter power the higher the voltage. Higher voltages in turn require bigger plate spacing to prevent arcing. Along with the bigger spacing comes larger plate areas for the same capacitance. And, along with that, a higher price tag.In keeping with ham tradition, these two were lamenting the higher price tag.

Click Here to Listen to the conversation

Patty Morris Foxworth Becomes A Silent Key

Patty Morris Foxworth, KJ4AFB, passed away on August 26th 2019.

Obituary

Patricia Elaine Morris died on August 26, 2019. She was born on March 11, 1951 in Madras, India to Arthur and Ruth Morris.

She is survived by her beloved and devoted husband Robert Foxworth;
Her brothers, David Roy (Philomina) Morris and family; Joseph Arthur (Yong Cha) Morris and family, her sister, Sharon Lee Bilsborough (Mark Bilsborough), her nephew, Luke Bilsborough and her niece, Ginger Morris.

A service will be on held on Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 2:30 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 175 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland, FL 33801

Bob is currently at Scott Lake Health and Rehab, 800 County Road 540A, Lakeland, and their phone # is: (863) 500-4015.  Bob asked that I inform you of his wife’s passing, and would happily welcome visitors if anyone is available.  He is in Room 304.Click here for a Google Map and directions.

When I visited Bob Sunday, 9/16/19 I asked if there was anything I could do. He asked me to put together an  album of pictures of Patty.  I am in the process of creating hard copy for Bob, but in the mean time here are some of the pictures I found on our Blog.

For over twenty other images CLICK Here.

Our regular monthly meeting scheduled for September 2nd will be canceled due to weather. More information will follow after the storm passes.
The following information is current as of Thursday 9/29/19

Hurricane Dorian projected to become a major hurricane as it churns toward Florida

Strengthening is forecast over the next few days, and Dorian could be become a Category 3 storm on Friday.

As of 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, Dorian’s center was some 20 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas and about 595 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida, the hurricane center said. Dorian was moving at 9 mph and had maximum sustained winds of 115 mph.

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The state’s east coast from Fort Lauderdale up to Cape Canaveral and inland to Orlando are still within the three-day cone of uncertainty, though. The five-day projection includes even more of the state, but the consensus path now has the storm headed for landfall near the South Carolina and Georgia border.

Hurricane Dorian cone of uncertainty as of 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
Hurricane Dorian cone of uncertainty as of 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. (National Hurricane Center/National Hurricane Center)

Florida Gov. DeSantis, though, cautioned that the storm paths will continue to change and that Florida residents need to be wary.
“There is still significant chance of a strike on the state of Florida,” DeSantis said during a briefing at the Emergency Operations Center this morning. “Anyone inside of that cone needs to be prepared.”

As of Saturday 11:00 PM Saturday the forecast is for Dorian to track North with its center staying over the Atlantic as it passes Florida. Good news for us.

As of 11:00 PM Sunday

Monday AM.
Dorian continues on a path that would put its center off the Eastern coast of Florida. At this time is does not appear to be a threat to central and western Florida. Current projection is for the storm center to be well north of us by Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

And the forecast is for the storm to remain off the coast as of late Monday.

Well goodby Dorian, at least as far as we are concerned!