Posts Tagged hamfest
Dayton Hamvention 2010
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.
DLARC Hamfest
Posted by jeff in Antenna Stuff, Shack Stuff on February 5th, 2010
Tonight was the 2010 DLARC mini hamfest which brought a great turn out to our monthly meeting. I’m pretty psyched to have come home with about 300 feet of RG8/U. Coax is a non-stop necessity in this shack… At least for the time being. All in an effort to convert from my RG8x to support an upcoming amplifier purchase. For those not in the know, RG8x is a smaller diameter 50 ohm coax cable that serves the HF world very well, but usually has a maximum power rating of 300-500 watts.
Weekend update.
Posted by jeff in Contesting on July 14th, 2009
This last weekend was a ham radio packed weekend. On Saturday morning I arrived at the club station (aka The Milk House) with 746 in hand and setup for the IARU HF World Championship. Dave, K3GMT; Howard, KB3RTB; and Ben, KB3CTX would also setup to join in the competition. Collectively as operators we knew we were far from any award winning experience, just the fun of competing.
By 9:30AM some of us were on the air, myself on 15 meter where activity was starting to build as the band was opening. Throughout the day I would eventually end up on 20 meter where I would find the DX chaos. Approximately 12 hours into the competition a large thunderstorm began to role in causing us all to take an unintended break. This would be the end of the competition for me with 102 QSO’s logged with approximately 7300 points.
On Sunday Laurie and I went up to Sussex county NJ to a hamfest where we put on a D-Star TV demo with DLARC member, Howard (KB3RTB) and a number of NJDSTAR members. A lot of attention was drawn around the booth as the first pictures were transferred. While there I purchased the parts to build a D-Star hotspot and picked up a Heathkit SWR/Wattmeter for Laurie’s rig.
Photos to come.