Hamcation 2023

2/12/2023

Hamcation fell on the 2nd weekend in February again this year so I was able to attend both Friday and Saturday since the club meeting is on the first Friday of the month. I picked up a N3ZN CW key to add to my collection of expensive CW keys. I also attended the FCG contest dinner where I won a Heil headset for Yaesu HT, of which I have one. I sat with the Icom reps at the dinner and AA4TI, who was sitting at my table, right next to the main Icom rep, won the grand prize of an ICOM IC-7610.

W2GD giving the contest dinner speech

Swaps hall, my friend Charles later bought that Flexradio at the bottom right

Crazy antennas on a VW

VW trunk

Icom booth

Prototype of the IC-905, uses Power over Ethernet from the radio to the gray control boxes so you can put the box next to the antenna and limit feedline loss. The 2nd box is the 10GHz addon. Screen display shows the 2.4GHz WiFi signals in the building.