[RTTY] Dayton RTTY Contest Dinner

[Larry Gauthier (K8UT)]

Fred provided an accurate description of the RTTY Contest Dinner - which was 
indeed wonderful. But in addition to his pivotal role as general manager for 
the event, Fred has modestly understated his single-handed effort soliciting 
door prizes from all those vendors. Months of pavement-pounding, 
phone-calling, email-sending to contact, follow-up, and when necessary nag 
those prize donors.

Thanks Fred for all of your work.

-larry (K8UT)
-----Original Message----- 
From: Fred Dennin
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:03 AM
To: rtty reflector
Subject: [RTTY] Dayton RTTY Contest Dinner

By all accounts, the Dayton RTTY Contest Dinner was successful, due in most 
part to the 69 people that attended.  In addition to those having dinner 
with us, we also had some that showed up to hear Larry, K8UT’s outstanding 
presentation that was both humorous and informative.  I have attended many 
other dinners at Dayton that were neither.  Thank you very much Larry, for 
keeping us smiling throughout the presentation.

We handed out 42 door prizes throughout the evening so about 60% of those 
attending received a prize.  Ed, W0YK, Mark, K6UFO and Sue, AI6YL took 
charge of door prize distribution and I thank each of you for that.  Door 
prize donors were:

1.  Array Solutions – Rig Expert Model TI-5 Interface valued at $364

2.  DX Engineering – (2) $100 Gift Cards

3. ARRL – 2 NCJ Subcriptions, and One $50 Gift Certificate

4.  NCJ –  3 subscriptions Total $60 value

5.  Donner – Shirt

6.  Force 12 – (1) $100 Gift Certificate

7.  Louisiana Contest Club – 2 Baskets with products made in Louisiana

8.  Eleckraft – Donated XG3 Signal Generator (has RTTY beacon feature), 
$180, AF1 Audio Filter (for audio tone filtering), $60 and N-Gen Noise 
Generator (for receive testing), $60 W0YK bringing to Dayton – Total value 
of $300

9.  LZ1JZ (Tony) QSL Cards – 2  Certificates for (2) 1000 QSL Card orders

10.  MFJ Enterprises – Donated 3 books, one rubber duck antenna, one 
telescopic dual band HT antenna, one digital clock

11.  Gigaparts – One $50 Gift Card and Two $25 Gift Cards

12.  CQ Magazine –  4 Books

13.  N3FJP Software – 1 Gift Certificate For Logging Software

14.  Hamcall/Buckmaster –  May 2014 CD

15.  Heart of Dixie ARS (W4HOD) Contesting Group - Cheryl (AA4YL), Darrell 
(K9MUG), Dick (K4IQJ), Bob (KA4PKB) – DXE Cable Stripping Tool Set (2 pcs) 
$75 value

16.  Ten Tec – Antenna Analyzer

17.  Qtenna Quads (W9SN)  Quad Hub

18.  Icom  -  6 discount certificates ( 2 at $25, 2 at $50 and 2 at $100)

If you didn’t get time to thank the sponsors during your rounds at Dayton 
and even if you didn’t attend, please take the time to thank them for 
supporting RTTY Contesting and specifically, our dinner.

We’re already working on the RTTY dinner for next year so I hope that those 
that attended will return, bringing someone with them.  It would be great to 
have attendance at 100 or more next year.  The food and the service were 
both good.

One of our own, Ed, W0YK was inducted into the Contest Hall of Fame at the 
Saturday Night Contest Dinner.  Ed is very deserving of this award, for not 
only his operating prowess, but his giving back to amateur radio. 
Congratulations Ed!

Speaking of giving back, I want to thank those attending the dinner that 
freely gave money in support of our goal in raising $1000.00 for WRTC 2014. 
Saturday, Ralph, K1ZZI and  I presented Doug, K1DG and Randy, K5ZD  with 
$1020  raised and we, the RTTY Contest Dinner, will have a tent at WRTC 2014 
bearing our name, to recognize this donation.  We exceeded our goal, and 
RTTY Contesters were recognized at the Saturday Night Contest Dinner for 
supporting WRTC 2014 that does not include RTTY in this competition.

Again, a special thanks to Larry, K8UT and Ed, W0YK who assisted me during 
the last 6 or 7 months in putting this dinner together.  Also, a big thanks 
to Tim, K3LR for his help in arranging the dinner with the Crowne Plaza and 
Scott, KA9FOX for hosting and designing our website.

I’d also like to thank Jay, WS7I  and Ron, K5DJ, who graciously responded to 
my request for historic information on RTTY dinners previously held at 
Dayton.  Thanks to them, I was able to give a historic perspective of the 
previous RTTY Contest Dinners held.

Thanks also to Charlie, N5WE who manned the video camera during not only our 
dinner, but also the Contest Hall of Fame induction ceremony held Saturday 
night, that will be edited and put up on YouTube for everyone to see who 
couldn’t make it.    Either Charlie or I will let you know when that is 
ready for viewing.

I hope you’ll put the 2015 RTTY Contest Dinner on your calendar now.

73’….Fred, WW4LL


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