[CQ-Contest] Dayton Hamvention

Fri May 26 15:48:47 EDT 2017

Looking at these emails from Finland, I am dropping my jaws.
Ever heard of internet?
Ya know, it haunts you. It is in your pocket.
Grab the internet and feel the easy street of life.. it is assisted !

Trying to understand you all, forcing the Classic mind set . .it is so
difficult.
I feel like listening to 3845 or so.

Our Finnish grey beard round up is on 3699.
They are on practically 24/7.
They are happy only if someone mocks up with a mass of talent.

If you looked at internet in your pocket, you would bump into for example:
https://www.zomato.com/dayton/xenia-restaurants

See - the life of the assisted is easy !

73,
Jukka OH6LI

2017-05-26 6:19 GMT+03:00 <kzerohb at gmail.com>:

> Greene County Convention and Visitors Bureau had a booth with all sorts of
> information and handouts about the local area.  I didn’t specifically
> notice if there was a list of restaurants.
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> "Just a boy and his radio"™
>
> From: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 2:55 AM
> To: cq-contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Hamvention
>
> I didn’t spend a lot of time at the inside exhibits or information booths.
> However, was there any sort of flyer available listing Xenia restaurants?
> At other events with lots of out of town visitors, I have generally found
> such lists available at information/registration tables. Perhaps the Xenia
> restaurants need to provide such.
>
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>
>
>
> > On May 25, 2017, at 12:21 PM, Vincent Weal <vincek4jc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I suspect that most attendees stayed in Dayton and commuted to Xenia. At
> > least that's what I did. There were probably 20 restaurants near my hotel
> > and I usually stopped for breakfast at the Tim Horton's a few doors away,
> > ate lunch at the fairgrounds and had dinner at either an event (DX
> Dinner,
> > Contest Dinner) or near the hotel (Frisch's Big Boy, which had terrible
> > food!) Being that I used offsite parking and rode the bus to the
> > fairgrounds it really didn't dawn on me to dine in Xenia. Next year I'll
> > make it a point to do so, and perhaps patronize some other shops there as
> > well.
> >
> > 73, Vince K4JC
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:05 AM, N2TK, Tony <tony.kaz at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I found the restaurants in downtown Dayton to be quite busy with Hams,
> >> especially those east of the Crowne Plaza on 5th street. And within
> walking
> >> distance to the Crowne. Quite a good selection of cuisine. Is it the
> >> eateries more towards downtown and Xenia will benefit from the change in
> >> venues? I do miss Barnsider. Buckhorn Tavern was a big letdown last
> year.
> >>
> >> And yes the food offerings were much better at Xenia then Hara, except
> for
> >> Radar's "Homemade" Ice Cream. First time I can ever remember throwing
> out
> >> ice cream. It was terrible.
> >>
> >> Overall I feel DARA did a wonderful job for the first time at new venue.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> N2TK, Tony
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf
> Of
> >> ac0w at charter.net
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7:07 PM
> >> To: 'cq-contest at contesting.com' <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> >> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Hamvention
> >>
> >> Overall an excellent job by DARA in getting things functional in a new
> >> location. As with anything you can always find things that can be
> improved.
> >> DARA fixed things they could as they came up while other things will
> have
> >> to
> >> wait until next year.
> >> The mud in the flea market, there are some simple solutions to that.
> >> The mud in the parking area a little more challenging but still
> possible to
> >> get a lot of it under control.
> >> Some of the changes may require investment by the fair board. How much
> >> money
> >> the fair board is willing to invest depends on what type of economic
> impact
> >> we have on the area. I mentioned this as XYL and I stopped at a local
> >> restaurant Saturday afternoon and visited with the manager. We talked
> about
> >> the Hamvention a little. He indicated a lot of local business were
> really
> >> disappointed in how few hams stopped in their business when the
> community
> >> tried to roll out the red carpet for us.
> >> This particular person use to be manager at some restaurant by Hara and
> >> said
> >> they were always full of hams during Hamvention so he was surprised to
> >> hardly seen any. I can come up with a couple of reasons for not hitting
> the
> >> local restaurants, such as all the good food choices at Hamvention and
> it
> >> not being as easy to run out to the local restaurant as it was at Hara.
> >> Another is the new location my focus was just learning and figuring out
> how
> >> to get there.
> >> Bottom line is next year lets try to leave a few greenbacks with the
> local
> >> business as it will make DARA's job easier in getting some changes made
> >> they
> >> may want. I know next year I will do a better job of trying to hit some
> of
> >> the local businesses.
> >> Last comment, all the 600 plus volunteers were great. XYL, myself and
> many
> >> of the attendees that I saw tried to thank the volunteers whenever
> >> possible.
> >> Just like to publicly thank the volunteers for everything they did in
> >> helping making this an enjoyable event and I hope to see many of them
> again
> >> next year.
> >> 73BillAC0W
> >>
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:02:46 -0500 (CDT)
> >> From: Ron Notarius W3WN
> >> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> >> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dayton flea market mud
> >> Message-ID:
> >>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >>
> >> The rain, and the resulting issues with mud, were unfortunate and
> >> disappointing.
> >>
> >> But let's keep things in perspective. This was the first time that DARA
> >> used this venue for Hamvention. It was too much to hope for that
> everything
> >> would work out perfectly, and in two aspects -- the traffic on Friday,
> and
> >> this -- they didn't.
> >>
> >> The traffic issue was resolved. I've learned that the problem was that
> >> certain officials would not agree to making the main 2 lane road in one
> way
> >> for the morning on Friday; that changed on Saturday, alleviating the
> issue.
> >>
> >> The flea market issue won't be so easy to solve. Personally, I think
> they
> >> would have been better off putting the spaces, or at least many of them,
> >> around the track, not in the infield -- that would have permitted
> vehicles
> >> to use the track for access, which meant that when the rains came,
> vehicles
> >> would be on the hard surface, not chewing up the mud. There are other
> >> alternatives as well.
> >>
> >> It was unfortunate, but I don't believe it's fair to start writing off
> >> Hamvention in the future because they didn't score a perfect 10 on their
> >> first year in Xenia.
> >>
> >> Now, that said, if DARA doesn't learn from this year and make
> adjustments,
> >> I'd have a different opinion next year. Let's give them a chance, first.
> >>
> >> 73, ron w3wn
> >>
> >> On 05/23/17, Jeff AC0C wrote:
> >>
> >> What has historically set Dayton apart from the rest of the big hamfests
> >> is
> >> that monster sized flea market. So the decision of the organizers to
> put it
> >> in the center of a dirt horse track on grass seems like a big gamble
> that
> >> there would be no serious rain.
> >> Unfortunately this year they won the prize for a lot of rain on that
> >> weekend. And that rain turned the race track and everything inside into
> a
> >> massive mud mess.
> >>
> >> Hope the organizers find some solution to that problem. Because the
> >> persistent mud makes the flea market a pretty unpleasant experience.
> >> Makes me wonder how many guys come to Dayton primarily to poke around in
> >> the
> >> market ? and how many will be back if it?s going to be the mud mess it
> was
> >> this year.
> >>
> >> 73/jeff/ac0c
> >> www.ac0c.com
> >> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
> >>
> >> __
> >>
> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:34:59 -0400
> >> From: cqtestk4xs at aol.com
> >> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> >> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dayton flea market mud
> >> Message-ID:
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >>
> >> The flea market issue won't be so easy to solve. Personally, I think
> they
> >> would have been better off putting the spaces, or at least many of them,
> >> around the track, not in the infield -- that would have permitted
> vehicles
> >> to use the track for access, which meant that when the rains came,
> vehicles
> >> would be on the hard surface, not chewing up the mud. There are other
> >> alternatives as well.
> >>
> >>
> >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> I talked to several members of the Dayton Club about doing that. I was
> >> told
> >> they can't as the track is used daily by the horses. Sigh!
> >>
> >> Bill K4XS
> >>
> >>
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