Well, it was a super finish to a big year for the HWC! Mike Raisbeck, K1TWF, ARRL New England Vice-Director was on-hand to give us the low-down from HQ. Present from the HWC were N3OQB, N2MSE, KO1O, N1TDI, N1EXQ, K1XQ, K9HI and K3UOC. Guests from BARC were N1IST, N1VUX, and N1NHZ. From MIT, W1GSL did the honors and from our own Physics Department, W1HFA made a special guest appearance. (Photos courtesy N1EXQ and K9HI).

We started the evening's festivities with a little tour around W1AF including an impromptu field trip up to the roof. At @7:30 PM, our Vice-Director took center stage and brought us all up to date on such timely topics as the new licensing structure proposal, FCC enforcement, recruiting new hams to our ranks, and the NE division organization. We thoroughly enjoyed having Mike visit us and he has promised to return this coming October for our special event to do some operating! N3OQB presented K1TWF with a W1AF coffee mug and plenty of photos were snapped. Look for new photos soon on our web site. Following Mike's presentation, we did a little club business (unavoidable) in a record-setting 10 minutes. The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM, and that's all she wrote for this school year. Here's the rest of the story:

1. HWC welcomed Paul Horowitz back for a visit to the HWC. W1HFA, as you probably know, is a former Trustee and Faculty Advisor of the club. We've been talking with Paul about resuming his position as HWC Faculty Advisor. KYFC that he accepts!

2. The UC Grant monies have been deposited in our account. Every little bit helps. Now we can go after the UC again in the fall for another grant!

3. N3OQB is looking into the date for Freshman tabling in September. We'll coordinate this via e-mail. Frank is off this Saturday and Nick leaves shortly thereafter (for Stanford). We'll see our undergrads again in September. Thanks for a great year, guys!

4. I knocked-off the most recent W1AF bureau shipment today. Bill is working on the previous shipment. We're already starting to get cards for our DX contest operations from this year. Most interesting bureau cards received this month were from the September 1995 Easter Island DX-pedition (XQ1J). Incidentally, DX4WIN does a beautiful job on QSL labels. The program has an up-to-date database of QSL managers and it also interfaces with the Flying Horse callbook CD-ROM for addresses. This is a *sensational* logging program and everyone should take the time to learn its numerous features.

5. Our next Flea is coming up sooner than you think! This evening we distributed posters and flyers for the June event. As per usual, let Phil know if you can make this one. Remember, every hour you put in working the Flea is money in the bank for the HWC. I'll be there. How about you?

6. I'm working on a press release for our 90th special event operation and will get it off to the major publications within the coming week. I'm going to query the W8SH guys at Michigan State about recommended operating frequencies. This is going to be one big celebration, guaranteed. Keep October 2 & 3 free on your busy agendas.

7. News on packet is that there's no news on packet. Bill's working on the connector and hopefully we'll be back on the cluster soon. We probably won't make it for the WPX CW, but we found packet only marginally useful in the WPX SSB. Of course, everyday DX spotting is an awful nice tool to have.

8. Speaking of DX, W1AF and K1XQ worked OJ0/K7BV this evening on 20 CW. Dennis is over in OH for the WPX CW and will be operating from Aland Island (OH0) this coming weekend. K7BV is an excellent CW op and we're glad to get this new DXCC counter in the log.

9. For the WPX CW this weekend, I'll get a new CT file started (WPXCW99) and do what I can on Saturday. K1XQ will try and do some time either Saturday or Sunday, and KO1O is our faithful Sunday guy. I'll leave the log up and running after I QRT Saturday. I'll set up the Morse Machine with contest exchanges and sequential numbers. Remember, this contest is everyone-works-everyone with same country QSOs counting a full point each.

10. I've posted HWC emergency telephone numbers on each of our doors and by each of our telephones. This is as much for our benefit as for Harvard personnel who might need to get in touch with us. There are four names and numbers on this list: my home number, K9HI's work number, K1XQ's work number, and Scott Haywood''s work number.

11. The HWC is on automatic pilot now until September. No meetings or HWC bulletins over the summer. However, if issues arise that we need input on, I'll certainly use the hwc-list, and I encourage you to do the same. And, of course, the web site never sleeps. Look for a 1925 photo of 1AF coming very soon. We'll keep bolstering our archives whenever we possible.

Finally, thanks for your support over the past months during our renovation. There were moments that looked very dark indeed. And there were many highlights as well. I believe the HWC is now back on track and is secure at 6 Linden Street for years to come. This is probably our singular most important accomplishment of the year. Of course, we all mourn the passing of W1TCD this year. I don't think we'll soon forget Carter's contributions to the club.

Have a great summer. I'll be out of town 5/30 - 6/9. The baby is due @7/23. She'll be a CW op, no doubt about it.