Larry,
The ATL hamfest hasn't been the same since they left ATL. But... this
year there were more vendors and flea mkt participants. Its getting
better but I consider it just a filler to pickup a few goodies for
Field Day.
Gary - WB4SQ
--- Larry Van Horn <larry@grove-ent.com> wrote:
> Hey Jeff and all,
>
> >There was not really a big turnout of SECC members. I remember
> running...<snip>
>
> Afraid there wasn't much of a turnout period. Probably one of the
> most
> disappointing hamfest I have ever attended in my 30 years of hamming.
> By
> the time we had finished the VE testing portion of our Sateurday ATL
> adventure at the 1st United Methodist church, ate an early lunch and
> got
> to the fest, it was pretty much done by 11 am. In fact, no one at the
> gate was even taking money (maybe that was a good thing). By 1pm it
> was
> starting to become a ghost town. No wonder they only had forums
> scheduled until noon. Given the size of Atlanta and the surrounding
> area
> it truly is a shame it isn't better hamfest. BTW the last Chattanooga
> I
> went to three years ago was better than Atlanta and Huntsville just
> frankly kicks your hamfest into the dirt.
>
> On the bright side, you have one of the nicest VE teams in the
> country
> and to all the CaVec gang, thank you for salvaging the day and our 4
> hour roundtrip trip from the NC mountains. My son passed his General
> written and will be taking his code this weekend locally at our
> Andrews
> VE test session.
>
> Unless things really turn around ATL won't be on my sked next year
> and I
> think we will add Chattanooga or Huntsville back into our hamfest
> travel
> schedule.
>
> 73 all and wish I could have met a couple of you down there in ATL
> land.
>
> Larry Van Horn -- N5FPW
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of ku8e@bellsouth.net
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:21 AM
> To: secc@contesting.com
> Subject: [SECC] Atlanta Hamfest
>
>
>
> Hi All...
>
> There was not really a big turnout of SECC members. I remember
> running
> into K4EA, N4LR, K2UFT, N4NX, AF4QZ, and saw WB4SQ running around. I
> was cool
> to run into my good friend, Dennis Motschenbacher , K7BV. I know
> Dennis
> from
> way back in his KZ5M days. Dennis, Adam, AF4QZ, Jim. N2ZZ (SEC for
> SC),
> and
> myself got together for lunch before we all headed home and it was
> neat
> to
> talk contesting and ARRL....
>
> 73, Jeff KU8E
>
>
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