Topband: Dayton Hamvention activity update

[Tim Duffy]

The popular internet TV show Ham Nation with Bob, K9EID will be live at the
Crowne Plaza Dayton on Wednesday evening May 13 (starts at 9 PM EDT) in the
Contest Super Suite. Go to http://live.twit.tv to watch the show live on
Wednesday night. The Contest Super Suite is here:
http://contestsupersuite.com

Four days of Dayton 2015 contester activities are outlined here
http://contestsupersuite.com/page_contest_related_events.html

There is a WWROF Webinar about 2015 Dayton activities here:
http://wwrof.org/category/webinar-archive/

Selected segments of Dayton Contest University (CTU) will be live streamed
(and recorded) on the Internet all day Thursday May 14 from 8 AM to 5 PM
EDT. Seats are still available for students at Dayton CTU. Go to
http://contestuniversity.com for late registration. There is already a
"button" on the CTU home page to connect to the live stream thanks to Icom
America.

The Hamvention Antenna Forum will be held in Room one at HARA on Friday
afternoon, May 15. This will be the first year there is a live stream
available (and recorded). Go to the Icom America web site on Friday, May 15
for the link to watch the presentations:
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/amateur/dayton2015/

You can see Dr. Tamitha Skov's May 7th (latest) propagation forecast here:
http://spaceweather.tv

2015 ANTENNA FORUM - live stream thanks to Icom America
• “A behind the Scenes Tour – The World’s Largest Antenna at Arecibo”, Angel
Vazquez, WP3R 
• “A Look at Antenna Analyzers”, Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR 
• “The Science of Predicting Space Weather and How it Affects Propagation”,
Dr. Tamitha Skov 
• “Quadcopter Drone Assisted Real World Antenna Pattern Measurements”, Greg
Ordy, W8WWV

Bob, K4UEE will speak about 160 meter operations from K1N Navassa Island at
the 26th Annual Top Band Dinner on Friday night, May 15. Tickets are still
available: http://topbanddinner.com

The Spurious Emissions Band will play a live concert starting at 10 PM
Friday (May 15) at the Dayton Crowne Plaza Presidential Ball room. Members
of the band are all Ham radio musicians. Come early - as the place was
packed last year. Here is one of their songs from 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg_S5RujMn8

Noted contester and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN will speak at the 23rd
Annual Contest Dinner on Saturday May 16 at the Crowne Plaza. A few tickets
are still available:
http://contestdinner.com

Thanks to Scott KA9FOX at QTH.com for all you do to make these websites
work.

73 and see you in Dayton,
Tim K3LR