[Moon] EME 2018 some final words

[Jan van Muijlwijk]

To all who attended EME 2018.

The conference is history now.
Many thanks to all participants!

I hope you all had a safe and smooth journey home.

Some final remarks:
Pictures of the conference are appearing on several websites. That’s nice!
The EME 2018 website will be online for a while but not very long.
So we will try to gather as much pictures and videos as possible and put them on the CAMRAS website in future.
It will take a while but I will announce it here when it’s ready.

You may have noticed our two video guys running 4 cameras during the presentations.
They were with us on Friday too during the visit to Westerbork and Dwingeloo.
They shot an awfull lot of video, so they will need some time to do the editing.
When it’s all ready we will put it as a free download on the CAMRAS website.

Some might have heard that a wallet was lost (maybe even stolen). The good news is the wallet was found by hotel personnel after the conference!
Some might have heard that luggage was missing at the end of the conference. It appeared that the video crew took it home by accident...
In the meantime it’s back at it’s rightfull owner. 
So two stories with a happy end!

Finally you know we went over budget a bit.
A spontaneous fundraising action was organised to cover the costs.
I really was overwhelmed by this action.
I often refer to the EME community as the EME family.
This action is the best proof of this being true!
What an extraordinary group of people this EME family is!
Many, many thanks!

Next week the project manager of the hotel will be back from holiday and she will do the final calculations.
But as it looks to me now there should be enough money to close the gap!!

My wife and I loved organising EME 2018 and we loved every minute of it.
It took some time and we had not too much sleep during the conference but it was worth it.

For me, showing you all the big dish in Dwingeloo was a great moment.
We run this old lady now for already more than 10 years and it almost becomes normal to us.
But I realise very well that we are incredibly lucky to have the possibillity to use an instrument like this.
It’s and honour and a privilege to us Dutch guys to have this dish at our disposal.

So now we are looking forward to Prague 2020 already!
I can’t wait to see you all again......

73!
Jan
PA3FXB (team PI9CAM)