[CQ-Contest] Dayton Xenia Hamfest

Mon May 22 21:27:28 EDT 2017

Other than the traffic issue - now resolved - is that the tents did not
have the vendor numbers posted on the outside, and many vendors did not
display a booth number in the tents.

I went looking for the RAC booth, and found their number on the map.  Took
several tries to figure out the correct tent, and I asked several vendors
"what is your booth number?" as they were not clearly visible.  Turned out
they had moved, but it is something that should be looked at for next
year.  We had the same issue with the flea market spots.  The other person
I was there with was looking for his friends.  He had a booth number, but
we had problems finding it.  Turns out the little orange flags had numbers,
but they were not up to the job.

So - my only complaint is - better numbering for next year please.

Now that we have a better idea of "who is where", it will be better next
year :-)

GREAT venue!  Buildings were great, forums were great - a big step up from
the Hara.

In case anyone is wondering - YES - the buildings at the Hara are still
standing.  There is grass growing up through cracks in the parking lot.  I
asked Tom - K8CX to take some pictures before the place falls down.

GREAT tribute by the Spurious Emissions band Friday night!  Looking forward
to seeing it posted on YouTube.

GREAT, GREAT job by Dara and the 600 odd volunteers who put on the Dayton
Hamfest.  A HUGE job by any measure, and they pulled it off with only minor
problems.  It is a real tribute to the many, many hours of work they put
into hosting this event.

Tom - VE3CX

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-----
> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > Chuck Dietz
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 9:53 AM
> > To: cq-contest
> > 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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