[Towertalk] First day at Dayton - NOT THE HAMFEST REFLECTOR

[Ed Kucharski]

At 03:56 PM 5/18/02 -0400, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 5/18/02 10:53:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ve7hcb@rac.ca
>writes:
>
> > Is there not a natural waxing and waning of these things?
> >  The next upswing may not be exactly the same, as technology, people etc
> >  change.  However, there will be something that will move in to take Daton
> >  Hamventions place.  I always wanted to go.  BUT  $$$.  To me it seemed
>that
> >  the $s went up every year it was successful, the more successful, the 
> more
> >  dollars next year.  Then the cycle dies as the spenders are without
>dollars.
>
>     Whoa there, pilgrim. This is not the hamfest reflector. Tnx.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve     K7LXC
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Steve,
You started this thread on the TT reflector (see your initial post below).
If you didn't want the thread to proliferate on TT as it has you shouldn't have
posted your original - First Day at Dayton - message.  Is it okay for you to
discuss the hamfest on TT since you are the TT administrator but no one 
else can?
Seems kinda like the pot calling the kettle black to me.
73,
Ed K3DNE


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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:59:32 EDT

Howdy, TowerTalkians --
It was nice running into some of you today at the Hamvention. First the
good news.
Interesting new stuff including seeing the new AN tower at the Array
Solutions booth. It's a commercial grade self-supporter. Pretty brute stuff
and should take any kind of load like a 10' microwave dish which it looks
like it was designed for.
The owner of Pro-Sistel was also at the A/S booth. Very nice and sincere
guy so his relationship with Array Solutions may be successful for everyone.
Also in the A/S booth was the designer and a version of the OptiBeam. It
sounded interesting. It'd be nice if someone were to test one of them and
publish the results.
Rich, K0XG, was there with his rotating tower products and he pointed out
that he has a beam boom mount that'll fit on a 45G or 55G tower leg. It also
has a strut that prevents any beam movement so the torque on the leg is
minimized but the strut allows fine tuning so you can get the antenna pointed
in the desired direction accurately and easily.
The K3LR Antenna Forum had REALLY interesting programs by K1ZM on his new
VY2/Prince Edward Island station that has his dream 160M vertical set-up.
Mike, W9RE, had the story of his 2L 80M beam. It's big, it's heavy, and they
designed/homebrewed the whole thing. They even assembled it on the tower
since the soil was too wet for a crane. VERY impressive.
The bad news is that the Hamvention continues its attendance slide. You
can get a room anywhere in town right now including the Crown Plaza which is
a first. The Hertz rental place at the airport said rentals were down 40% and
you could walk right into the Spaghetti Warehouse across the street from the
CP on Friday night and get seated immediately - that's NEVER happened before.
The wx is also crappy - rain and 50 degrees.
More news tomorrow. I'll hit the flea market (2-1/2 acres!) then but will
have to buy an umbrella first.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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