This past weekend I had the chance to make it out to Dayton, OH for Hamvention 2010. Dayton turned out to be a blast! I was able to find the Dentron MT-3000A tuner I’ve been looking for as well as found a hardly used Icom 91AD handheld. Meeting the vendors face to face was great until I encountered AES, which I will explain in another post. I heard that turnout was better than the past few years and just when I thought we had seen it all, there was yet another room to explore. Enjoy some photos.

View at Picasa Collins AM transmitter with Icom transceiver.	View at Picasa Elecraft K3 with the new P3 panadapter	View at Picasa Hara Arena. Aka Mecca.	View at Picasa Yaesu booth and Hank Williams mobile.	View at Picasa A very blurry Kenwood TS-590	View at Picasa Yaesu FT-9000
View at Picasa New Kenwood TS-590	View at Picasa Ben (KB3CTX), Dave (K3GMT), Me (N3QO), Laurie (KB3SIK)	View at Picasa Some form of clock.	View at Picasa Little did I know this would be my future radio. Kenwood TS-480SAT	View at Picasa The main floor of Dayton 2010	View at Picasa TenTec Orion II
View at Picasa Laurie (KB3SIK) and I	View at Picasa The new Icom IC9100	View at Picasa Dinner before we head home.	View at Picasa Linux in the Ham Shack Podcast

While at Dayton this weekend, I picked up an Icom T90A from the AES table. After thinking about it overnight, I changed my mind and decided having handheld D-Star capabilities would be a better decision, and returned the radio back to AES the following day. While I completely understood and had no problem with the 15% restocking fee, I was however faced with a hostile reaction from 2 AES employees at the show, who made me feel more like a criminal than a member of the ham community. If I would’ve known this is how I would be treated, I would’ve kept the radio and given it to Laurie.

Needless to say after the many purchases I have made with AES over the course of the last 11 years, I will no longer be giving them any further business.