Category: Hamfests
November 15, 2019
This past weekend was the annual SPARC Fest, the club's hamfest. It's free for vendors so we keep getting a great turn out. 65 vendors showed up. As the new President I ran the club table, we sold quite a bit of stuff. It's interesting what people will buy. I was there to help setup before dawn…
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May 25, 2019
Saturday was the WORM Fest at Freedom Lake park. This is at the same spot as the SPARCfest and a very similar setup. I talked to one guy who got there at 5am to setup and said he was the 4th one there so they get started early. I didn't buy anything but a coffee this time but I'm starting to know…
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May 19, 2019
Day 2 was hotter than Day 1 but I had the lay of the land so I did the flea market in the morning and watched the air conditioned forums in the afternoon. Today I hit traffic on the way in, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as the way out yesterday. The flea market is massive here. I spent over 2…
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May 18, 2019
I typically go to a music festival on this weekend of the year. Last year at that festival I realized I didn't know anyone there anymore and I used to know everyone, so I decided then that I would do Dayton this year. Dayton totally has the music festival vibe only everyone is carrying walkie…
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February 17, 2019
Went to the Brooksville Hamfest today. Meh. If it were free maybe but for $5 there wasn't much to it. It was at a Scout Reservation. This would be a cool place to be a scout.
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February 11, 2019
I went to Hamcation in Orlando on Saturday. Went with Norm KA1IJA from the SPARC club. We met up with some other guys from the club as well. The setup at the convention was pretty much identical to last year, right down to the booth location. I picked up a LiFePO4 15Ah battery for my portable work…
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December 7, 2018
Went to the Tampa Bay Ham Fest. Picked up a 24V transformer for a non-ham radio project. The prices weren't good on cable or connectors, which were the other things I was looking for.
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November 30, 2018
A year ago today my original callsign(KX4HL) appeared in the FCC database after 9 long days of waiting. It's been quite a year, as of this morning I have 2411 QSOs. Here's some of my QSO cards: I've moved from just a wire antenna to a hex beam on the roof, put up a 2m antenna, built a AMSAT…
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November 13, 2018
At last weeks meeting of the SPARC Club they had a couple 2m radio, I picked up the Icom for use in my shack. Over the weekend was the yearly SPARCfest, where I picked up a 2m antenna. I put it up against my fence on some of the military camo poles I have left from Hamcation. I got on the SPARC net…
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April 14, 2018
Tampa Amateur Radio Club Fest XLI. It's a small hamfest, this is the 2nd one I've been to so they must do it a lot. I picked up some connectors and talked with some people I knew. I'm starting to know people. They have some nice towers
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