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Season’s Greetings! I hope you and your family are safe and well and you’re able to celebrate the season with family and friends, even if it is virtually. 2020 is almost over and it will be good to put this year behind us. Hopefully, a safe and effective vaccine will be widely available in the upcoming months and we can resume club meetings, hamfests, forums, and conferences. In the meantime, as winter envelops us and we spend more time indoors, our thoughts naturally turn to spring and warmer temperatures. Warmer temps translate into outdoor ham radio activities and that, of course, means antennas!

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