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Craig participated in Field Day this year. He was at the campsite most of yesterday, came back to get me for the potluck dinner and the evening hours, and he's gone back this afternoon to hang a bit longer with his club and help with tear down. I was skeptical, not being a talker and thus having weird feelings about amateur radio, but the people in the Fulton County Amateur Radio Club (FCARC) are all so awesome, I had a great time!
I sat with Craig for a few minutes now and then while he tried to collect contacts, but the chaos of all those voices on the radio was really frazzling my nerves. It was exciting, but also extremely overwhelming. I hate to even have the tv on quietly when Craig fires up a youtube video, the radio noise was ... just wow.
I had a great time talking with the club members and their family though. FCARC Field Day is a family camping event, and it felt every bit so. So many good people in that club! I'm glad Craig got into radio and we got to meet this group.
Later in the evening, I had an especially interesting conversation with a brilliant engineer who used to serve in the military as a "key-turner" in the nuclear missile silos, and an equally brilliant farmer who's worked as a commercial pilot, is a registered nurse (so is his wife) and now runs a business dealing in herbs and natural medicine. We talked about everything from cyberpunk novels to telescopes and satellites to life beyond our planet, reincarnation, alternate history and the strange and fascinating phenomenon of optical tunnels, with brief mentions of quantum mechanics, string theory and the great timeline of the universe. It was seriously one of the most enjoyable conversations I've had in a long time!
We're definitely participating in Field Day next year, and we're definitely bringing our tent and camping out with these people, even though it's only fifteen minutes from home. They have late night dessert, *AFTER* dinner dessert! And late, late-night/early-morning dessert too! My kind of people!.
