Attended the monthly meeting of the Police Amateur Radio Team, PART, WB1GOF, in Westford, MA on Tuesday. I presented the Appalachian Trail photo essay that I have and had a great time there. Their club president, Andy Stewart, KB1OIQ, made me feel very at home.

They were a wonderful audience and there were lots of laughs about many of the encounters as I hiked the trail. It was a surprisingly good turnout for a summer meeting.

One of the members has posted photos of the meeting on their web site: PART meeting photos .

If you have an organization that is looking for a speaker’s presentation, please do contact me and we’ll see what we can work out. I will be working my way south from New Hampshire to Sarasota, Florida in late August and early September. During the winter months I will be in Florida and will be making visits all over the state.

Possible candidate groups for the presentation are hiking clubs, ham radio clubs, heart surgery recovery groups, book clubs, Sierra Clubs and libraries.

Dennis “K1” Blanchard