[SEDXC] Dayton Hamvention Attendance Up!

[Robert Carroll]

Courtesy of a relay from the Grand Old Man of NJDXA, Bill Hellman, NA2M.

 




The official count for HamventionR 2012 was announced Friday night at the
DARA Membership meeting.  The count was 24,483.
Was it the weather or the economy?
1991: 33,500 (K4KL, Ross Brown)
1992: 33,000 (K4KL, Ross Brown)
1993: 33,669 (record, ARRL Newsletter, peak before the change from April to
May)
1994: 35,000 (Started in May, over estimated, Dayton Daily News statement)
1995: 33,000 (estimated, Dayton Daily News statement, drizzle&   mid 40's)
1996:
1997: 28,000 (ARRL Newsletter)
1998: 28,120 (ARRL Newsletter)
1999: 28,176 (ARRL Newsletter)
2000: 28,804 (ARRL Newsletter)
2001: 26,151 (ARRL Newsletter, hard rain)
2002: 24,832 (ARRL Newsletter)
2003: 22,168 (ARRL Newsletter, nearly constant rain on Saturday)
2004: 19,869 (ARRL Newsletter, rain)
2005: 20,411 (ARRL Newsletter)
2006: 20,324 (ARRL Newsletter)
2007: 19,318 (K4KL, ARRL Newsletter)
2008: 17,250 (ARRL Newsletter, Friday rain but sunny overall) (Hamvention
Reflector Stats 6-29-08)
2009: 18,877 (K4KL, ARRL Newsletter, rain late Saturday afternoon for short
while)
2010: 19,750. (ARRL Newsletter, mostly sunny, pleasant weekend)
2011: 22,312 (Dayton Hamvention direct query - WA8APB) Sunny and warm all 3
days, upper 70's to lower 80's. Read the 2011 recap.
2012: 24,483 (DARA Meeting) The weather for this year was very pleasant with
temperatures in the 80's and sunny all 3 days. Read the 2012 recap.
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