[AMRadio] Pack A Rat and BARA

[Peter A Markavage]

Hey Ed and all:
Looks like this will be a great hamfest weekend for NY, NJ, PA area. Got 
the BARA hamfest up in north Jersey on Saturday (indoor and outdoor) and
the infamous Pack Rats hamfest (when it was at the drive-in, most times:
is it raining there; not really, sun is trying to come out, from the
talk-in person) in PA. All in all, they both should be good hamfests.
Will have my "want" list in hand. Probably will bring a bunch of free
stuff just to clean house and maybe even dump some of the collins stuff
that's collecting dust. I've been told that all telphone poles, pole
pigs, parking bumpers, etc. will be secured prior to the hamfests to
prevent them from walking away.

Pete, WA2CWA
ps Ed: you should try HF mobile till you get settled in your new
location. 10 meters AM is coming alive. Some of those small multi-band
rigs are going for fairly reasonable prices.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:39:06 -0500 Ed.Hopton at checkpt.com writes:
> 
> Hi Brett,
> 
> I don't think we've worked before, but I've heard you on 40m plenty 
> of
> times.  I just wanted to drop you a line to say hello.  I don't 
> think I
> have an S meter for you, but I do have a box of various panel 
> meters.  I
> can take a look and see what's there.  I know I have a few R-390 
> size
> meters, but with different scales and probably with different 
> movements.
> I'll send you one if you want it.
> 
> I'm inactive at the moment -- just moved to Cherry Hill from Philly 
> back in
> June and although I have a few receivers and a 2m rig to play with,  
> I
> haven't figured out an antenna that I can put up in an apartment.  I 
> do
> have an attached garage and was thinking of one of those MFJ loops.  
> I
> don't have much time to play with radio anyway (I'm going to school 
> in the
> evenings at Rutgers).
> 
> We'll be looking for a house in a year or two.  I see from QRZ that 
> you're
> in Voorhees.  Is that a ham friendly area?  I'd like to be able to 
> put up a
> modest tower and run some wire antennas for the lower bands.  My 
> future XYL
> is OK with all of this; we just need to find a place without 
> antenna
> restrictions.
> 
> Good luck at Pack Rats.  I can't remember the last time I missed 
> that
> hamfest, but this year will be one of those times.  I hope the 
> weather will
> be OK -- the old joke used to be: "When's Pack Rats?"  "The first 
> rainy
> weekend in October!"
> 
> 73,
> 
> Ed N3CMI
> 
>

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