[CQ-Contest] Dayton Xenia Hamfest

[Zack Widup]

That was my experience. On Friday I left the Crowne Plaza at 8:30 am
and finally got into a parking space at the fairgrounds at 11:15 am.
Almost three hours in line and I think for a while the line on the
road was over 4 miles long. A Fox News van was making a video of the
backed-up traffic.

On Saturday I left early. I was a speaker at one of the forums and was
told I could get in at 7 am with my speaker pass. I left the Crowne
Plaza at 7:10 and parked at the fairgrounds at 7:30 (what I'd expect).
I was told by several people that the traffic never really backed up
and everyone got in fast on Saturday.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
> I was told this morning that Friday evening, Hamvention people met with
> people from the fairgrounds, sherrif's office, and the county commissioner's
> office.  They made changes to how they were directing traffic in.
>
> (Who told me?  I don't recall his name, but he was a sherrif's deputy
> standing in line in front of us at Mickey Dee's this morning, he asked if we
> were hams when he saw our shirts.  He was due to go on duty in about an hour
> and was stopping for a bite on the way, and he was in a talkative mood.  You
> think I'm going to be rude to a sherrif?)
>
> K3AIR & I did take a different route in this morning -- we went up to the
> Xenia High School, US 35 to US 68.  No traffic, no hassles, plenty of
> parking.  I think the worst part was us to old f... Experienced hams trying
> to squeeze onto a school bus!  Not even a 5 minute trip from the school to
> the drop-off point, transfer to the shuttles, and at the main gate within
> another 5.  Just about as fast coming back, as well.
>
> We spoke with some friends who'd been caught in traffic on Friday, and the
> word was that Saturday, the biggest wait was about 10 minutes.  No long line
> of barely moving cars incoming.
>
> So it would appear that the issue has been addressed and corrected.
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Chuck Dietz
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:53 AM
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Xenia Hamfest
>
> Xenia was not prepared for 40,000 autos in one morning! Best use the remote
> parking nr 1 at 35 and Seajay
>
> Chuck W5PR
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