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The long awaited new club rooms are geting closer! After a clean up of the site on Saturday 19 and 26 February. Generators were running (a good test with the John Moyle Contest coming up) and angle grinders were used, clearing the concrete slab of the left overs of the steel columns, and other bolts. This in anticipation of a concrete saw to re-allign the concrete edges with the dimensions of the new building. All the melted and twisted left overs of radios, computers, antennas and other goods which we had kept in case of further investigations and insurance claims, were removed. Also the antenna tower was cleared of obsolete and damated coax cables. The materials for the new building were delivered on Friday 25 February. Actual setup of the structure is planned for the week of 6-10 March. What we then will have is only an empty shell. Then we will be able to assess further work such as the setup of deviding walls, electricity, plumbing, insulation and lining of the walls and ceilings (with a higher fire resistance than previous!) and so on. All in all quite a bit of work, but nothing we cannot manage with a number of working bees. For those who have in the previous months offered equipment or other goods, please hold off a bit longer, until we have sorted out the building. What we do need in the next month or so are items such as tables and chairs. No, don't bring that old chair or table that you had sitting in the shed or garage, unless you want to sit on it at the next meeting. But you will have to take it back home! We will be looking for ex company or government furniture, so if you know of something, contact Peter VK3TE or Craig VK3JCH, or mention it on one of theforthcoming VHF nets on Wednesday evenings.
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