Join us for our Face-To-Face, In-Person Christmas/Holiday Party!

Yes, the famous Austin Amateur Radio Club Christmas Party is back, with all the usual contests, recognition awards and plenty of door prizes! There’ll be lots of fun and socializing, too!

To celebrate our getting together, the club is covering the cost of a buffet dinner (entree, appetizer & non-alcoholic beverage*) for club members and your spouse/significant other!

The Buffet King options feature a wide variety of tasty food choices.

So, yes: Free Food! 😉  Sign Up at the bottom of this page!

* Hard drinks are the responsibility of each person ordering them, along with appropriate gratuity for drink service.

(If you’re not yet a club member, now would be a great time to become one!)

The QLF contest (morse code with your left foot, or non-dominant foot, Lew!) will again take place, with the winner receiving the highly-coveted QLF trophy!

Our top door prize this year is a Yaesu FTM-6000R Dual Band UHF/VHF 50W Radio, with removable faceplate and available Bluetooth , (a $300 value!), which will be awarded to one lucky winner.

Something new and fun this year!

It works like this:

1. Bring something that’s wrapped and ham radio related, worth at least $10, and works or is usable just like it is.
2. Get a numbered ticket for the exchange drawing.
3. When your ticket number is called, either select a remaining gift and open it, or “steal” a previously opened gift. But a “theft” is only allowed once per recipient. If your selection is “stolen”, you immediately get a new selection.

Gifts might include a cheap used radio, a vacuum tube, antenna wire or insulators, a book, a microphone, a hand tool, etc. Homebrew items are OK if they work.

Artistic creations could be entered too, but they must meet the requirements in number 1 above.

So, what’ya got?? 🙂

The 2023 Christmas Party will be held at the Buffet King Chinese restaurant in the back corner of Capital Plaza, located at 5451 N Interstate Hwy 35, Austin, TX 78723. Click for Google Map

Just like our regular meetings, our Christmas Party will be held on the first Tuesday of December, which is December 5th, starting at 7 p.m.

To attend the party you must sign up below.  If you’d like to attend, please let us know as soon as possible!

Oh, and if you have a Ham name badge, please remember to wear it to the party so that everyone will know who everyone is! 🙂