[AMRadio] Rolling Your Own

[Jim Isbell]

Its the great ham gathering of the year.  Luckily I live only 300 miles 
away so I take my antique motorhome and spend the night friday night. 
 Makes a great week end especially if you are picking up a 100 lb 12KVA 
power transformer for your 4-1000A linear.  No shipping costs.  Got a 
great deal too, traded a SB220 power transformer (only 20 lbs) for it. 
 Also picked up two working D-104s for $25 each.  Wish I had gotten 
more, but my wife had given me orders.  The barbeque (real Texas beef 
barbeque, no yankee pork) was great as was all the socialising. I met an 
old ham friend that I hadnt seen in 30 years!

Geoff/W5OMR wrote:

>>I really hope to make Belton someday. Dayton too, for that matter. We 
>>have Hosstraders up here, just over in NH 'about an hour' away. Rocheser 
>>NY is apparently a big gathering too, just haven't gotten there yet 
>>myself. Seems like the socializing is more fun now than buying goodies, 
>>though.
>>    
>>
>
>NOW you're talking! :-)  The Socializing thing is what's really taken over
>at Belton.  The facility (Bell County Expo Center) seems to have reserved
>the entire weekend (starting Friday morning) for the HamFest.  People 
>start showing up sometime in the middle of the week in their RV's, with
>the majority showing up early Friday morning.
>
>Always lots of room for everyone.  Big gatherings on friday night with 
>musical instruments, lots of food, and comraderie and fellowship for all.
>
>The QCWA NOS local chapter (promoting AM, in general) always
>has a big presence.
>
>73 = Best Regards,
>-Geoff/W5OMR
>
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