But we were disappointed in you Thomas in that you didn't make either
Visalia or Dayton this year. But your always thoughtful words are duly
noted, anyway.
As to N6RCE's belief that "Visalia" was held in Fresno only once, no, it was
always Fresno since 1965 (after Paso Robles in 1964), until Dick Norton N6AA
ran the convention in 1980 (I think), and Dick first located the now
notorious Holiday Inn. The singular Fresno experience to which Kevin
alludes was just a couple years ago.
Is Visalia "perfect"? Far from it. But it's pretty good, and yes,
sometimes the banquet chicken is truly rubber.
Ultimately it's the people that make an event, and as one of our friends
wrote, Visalia is almost 100% DXers and contesters.
As to making Visalia "more of a contesting venue", I believe Kevin N6RCE
need make his desires known to the So Calif and San Diego DX Club
officiandos and he can perhaps work towards that goal for 2006.
In any event, both 2006 Visalia and Dayton will take on added importance as
the run-up to WRTC 2006 in Brazil a few months later. By the way, on that
subject, having had the opportunity to visit Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
Island, and that general area of Brazil on 4 occasions recently, I can
attest to the wonderful hospitality of the Brazilians and our PY friends
PY5EG, PP5JR, PP5UA, PP5WG, etc.
Contesting from Brazil is fun too, and those privileged to compete will find
some interesting fun and challenges.
Two other points on that subject (sorry), Americans - at least - will need
visas to visit Brazil, and for anyone with a couple extra days down there, I
really recommend a visit to Gramado, a Swiss enclave up in the mountains
near Porto Allegre (south towards CX). Beautiful, and a real treat for
sure. And great shopping, as is much of Brazil.
73
Jim Neiger N6TJ (ZW5B, '89; ZX5J, '99; PY5M, '00; ZW5B, 01; PT5A, '02)
----- Original Message -----
From: <TOMK5RC@aol.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 2005 Dayton Forum Wrap Up
> How about a thread wrap up?
>
> Conventions are about Fellowship, Forums and Flea Markets. Which do you
> use
> to evaluate the event?
>
> Dayton is a cattle drive, too spread out, old facilities, too many
> propeller
> heads. Visalia is crowded and geographically inconvenient. Technical
> forums
> are usually pretty droll, except if you are extracting info you need.
> Presentations are most always dull because it is not a requirement to have
> any
> public speaking skills to go on a DX pedition.
>
> So change that which you can, accept that which you can't and have the
> wisdom to accept the difference. I ran Houston Ham Conventions for a
> number of
> years and will not criticize the efforts to put events like these
> together.
> Neither should you critics unless you have event-management experience
> and are
> ready to jump in and take charge. Anyway, I go for the fellowship, so I
> am
> never disappointed.
>
> CU in the VHF Contest this weekend multiop with KL2A signing K7RC on 6, 2
> and 432.
>
> Tom Taormina, K5RC
> Contesting from the Comstock
> W7RN - K7RC
>
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