The lead times required in publishing a magazine like CQ sometimes require the use of a time machine. Our ability (as writers) to travel forward is greatly limited, while your ability to look back (as a reader) is perfect. So as you read this, the entries below will be history; nevertheless, I ask you to go back in time to the days prior to this year’s gathering at Dayton, or more accurately, Xenia, Ohio.
The ROMEO Club
Our ROMEO Club is a weekly gathering of ham radio friends where we enjoy a late breakfast, ergo the name: ROMEO as in Retired Old Men Eating Out. I can’t attribute the origin of the name (it didn’t begin with us) but I can vouch to some degree to its accuracy, although “old” is used in the context of ham radio, where
