Feb 14    Traverse City  MI
30th Annual Swap & Shop Cherryland Amateur Radio Club
Immaculate Conception Elementary School 218 Vine St
Talk-In 146.46       jjnovak@charter.net

Feb 15    Livonia MI
Swap and Shop Livonia Amateur Radio Club
Civic Center Seniors Center 15218 Farmington Rd
Talk-In 145.35 (100 Hz)     w8gkh@arrl.net

Mar 14    Marshall MI
49th Annual Michigan Crossroads Hamfest
Southern Michigan ARS &  Marshall HS Industrial Arts Club
Marshall High School   701 North Marshall Street
Talk-In 146.660 Repeater and 146.52 Simplex
Daffne25@yahoo.com

Mar 15    Maumee OH
Hamfest and Computer Fair Toledo Mobile Radio Association
Lucas Conty Recreation Center 2901 Key Street
Talk-In 147.27    brian.harrington@utoledo.edu

WorldRadio magazine is now on-line in PDF format. WorldRadio readers will feel right at home, with many of the same columnists now in electronic format. More Web publishing is happening--if you haven't seen the new on-line HAM-MAG, give it a try! Subscriptions are free and the first couple of issues have been entertaining, with a nice combination of short articles on a variety of subjects, including operating and things to build. Merci beaucoup to both CQ and HAM-MAG!

Lifted from the ARRL Contest bulletin.

I have often been confused when I heard these
terms with reference to the word 'service'.

Internal Revenue  'Service'
U.S. Postal  'Service'
Telephone 'Service'
Cable TV 'Service'
Civil  'Service'
State, City, County & Public   'Service'
Customer 'Service'

This is not what I  thought 'service' meant. But today,
I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said
he had hired a bull to 'service' a few cows.  BAM!!!
It all came into focus.  Now I understand what all
those 'service' agencies are doing to us.

Now you are as enlightened as I am.