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There is a group of SF Bay Area amateur radio operators who hang out on the N6NFI repeater. Every week, one operator announces the Wednesday Luncheon (he always calls it a Luncheon) at the Black Bear Diner in Sunnyvale.

This is a long lunch, nominally from 11:30 to 3, but sometimes they stay into the late afternoon. Apparently the turnout is typically 10-15 people.

Now, the Black Bear Diner is not a fancy kind of place where you might expect to find "culture", but maybe community?

I haven't been to one of these events, so I can't speak from personal experience. But I can tell from the ham operators who talk about these Wednesday Luncheons that they look forward to meeting up with their radio buddies in person, and they really enjoy the conversations and camaraderie there.

Is that a new low?