[CQ-Contest] Hamvention - New Venue, etc.

[Mats Strandberg]

Being first time in Dayton, I can really say I am very content and happy!

No complaints at all. Traffic was challenging on Friday but excellent on
Saturday.

I should have paid the flea market a visit on Friday as rain made premise
quite muddy. My fault to delay visit there.

Contest Dinner - great event!

All in all, very happy I came. Great meeting old as well as new friends!

73
Mats RM2D (SM6LRR)


On Mon, 22 May 2017 at 09:21, Bill via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
wrote:

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> My two cents.
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> Overall, I'd give it a B or B-.
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> Positive stuff:
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> Food was A+....excellent variety, fair prices and good quality
> Forum facilities were an A....air conditioning worked and the rooms were
> plenty large
> Exhibitors facilities were an A...nicely spread out and no major
> congestion even when it started raining
> Planning ...B-  Maps were posted and the booklet about the hamfest was
> complete.  They obviously spent a lot of time planning this.  However they
> blew it on the traffic...see below.
> Restrooms...A  lots of porta-potties and they were pretty clean (for
> porta-potties)  Also lots of regular facilties.
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> Negative stuff:
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> Traffic: F... it sucked...the roads leading to the place are all 2 lane
> roads.  I got there at 7 AM and the traffic was already backed up a quarter
> mile.  Others got there later and were stuck in traffic a long time.  I
> know they can't do anything about the roads, they are what they are.
> However, they better figure out something since many of the guys I talked
> to said they weren't coming back until this was resolved.  Friday was
> horrible, Saturday was a little bit better since there were less people
> there.
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> Flea market was a D.  Why?  The flea market is set up on the infield of a
> horse racing track.  The track itself was nice and firm.  However, with
> cars, ATVs and golf cart driving on the grass infield in combination with
> the some rain, the lanes where you walked became very muddy by mid-day
> Saturday.  Several guys slipped and fell into the mud.  Some equipment for
> sale was spattered by mud from the golf carts, ATVs and cars using the
> lanes.  Same happened to some people.  It really was a mess with several
> cars getting stuck.  I know they can't do anything about the weather, but
> they need to address this since the fleas are what really appeal to many of
> the hams.
>
> Overall, it was a big improvement over the old place.
>
> My two cents.
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> K4XS/KH7XS
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