[FADCA] Tampa Hamfest Plans

[Chuck Hast]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:50:11 -0500, Russell Oder <oderr at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I will be checking in on Thursday evening 12/2/04 at the Quality Inn Suites
> in Bradenton.
> 
> Bud and Charlie, I would like to meet you (and anyone else who would care to
> join us) for dinner Friday evening. Call me on my cell phone (below.)
> 
> I will be there on Saturday and can attend to the booth as needed.
> 
> If all works out, I hope to have a UHF MSR2000 Motorola repeater operational
> at the site with a 9600 bps digital regenerator installed and working
> (depends on a lot of things outside of my control.) If it works (and I hope
> it does) I can use some of the 15 minutes if there are any left after your
> brilliant and thoroughly entertaining presentation.  If it works, I will
> have the pin-outs and other necessary information regarding the digital
> regenerator and connecting it to the MSR2000.  If it doesn't work, I'll be
> disappointed.
> 
> Russell Oder N4KOX
> Home 904.272.5812
> Cell 904.705.1043
> Work 904.723.2032
> "Do Not Meddle In the Affairs of Dragons,
>  For You Are Crunchy and Taste Good With Ketchup,"  Anonymous
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "bud thompson" <budt at cfl.rr.com>
> To: <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: "Catherine KG4UKI" <manywtrs at atlantic.net>; "Sally Thompson"
> <sthompson8 at cfl.rr.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:16 PM
> Subject: [FADCA] Tampa Hamfest Plans
> 
> Hi, All-
> 
> Charlie N3PPC and I will be visiting with KG4UKI in Inglis north of Crystal
> River Friday morning Dec 3.  We'll be installing Airmail, AGW PE, Pacllink
> AGW, TelPac and Winpac for her.  (Whew!)
> 
> Chuck K4GBB: What is the status of the 145.03 "Inverness" ROSE switch?  We
> hope to be able to access it from Catherine's Friday for Paclink AGW and
> TelPac.
> 
> On to Tampa - We hope to be on our way from Inglis to Bradenton early Friday
> afternoon for dinner and our motel.
> 
> We'll be staying at the
> 
> Quality Inn Suites
> 
> 2301 1st Street
> 
> Bradenton, FL
> 
> 941-747-6455
> 
> If anyone wants to get together Friday let me know.  I'll bet Gary can
> recommend a repeater frequency we can monitor to find each other.
> 
> On Saturday N3PPC and I will be at the Manatee Convention Center Ham Fest as
> early as is allowed (Gary?) - we'll set up the FADCA E-Mail over Ham Radio
> tables/booth demo.  We will need some help manning the booth throughout the
> day as we want to have some time for shopping and The Necessary.  The FADCA
> Forum "E-mail Over Ham Radio in Support of EMCOMMs" will be in Long Key
> North Room #4 at 10:30AM. I can provide a 35-45 minute PPT presentation -
> anyone else have anything to offer for the remaining 15 minutes?
> 
> I assume that we can have a general FADCA BOD meeting sometime, somewhere
> Saturday before we leave.
> 
> N3PPC and I have to return home Saturday evening.
> 

I am presently in Atlanta, trying to get things cleaned up so I can
get outta here
tomorrow, but I am only taking the work with me back to Tampa, so will have it
cut out for me. I am going to try to get clear of things Thurs or Fri,
not sure when.
I will try to be down there I hope by Friday.

I will have the FPAC switch with me and will bring some other stuff.
We can I hope
set the 9k6 regen unit up as a port on the FPAC switch and we can play
with it that
way. I hope we have access to the internet there on site so we can at least have
the local and international access available. Again, I do not know how
things are going
to cook out with work, but am hoping that I can get away for at least
Friday I am going
to see if I can pull of Thurs also since I had to work over the
Tnxgvng holiday in order to
make this trip.

John, sorry you can not come was hoping to see you.



-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."