[FADCA] Tampa Hamfest

[bud Thompson]

The Tampa Hamfest is next weekend Dec 3-4  -you can check it out here:

http://www.fgcarc.org/bin/site/wrappers/default.asp?NC=6774X

I've seen little (if any) posts on the FADCA e-mail reflector regarding the 
Tampa Ham Fest.  Gary Sessums sent me a note early in October with the 
announcement that I just answered this morning.

For the past two months I have been too busy to prepare a formal 
presentation for a FADCA forum, and have backed off to a degree on having 
live demonstrations at a FADCA booth due to the general lack of help.  N3PPC 
and I seldom get much time off from watching the gear to do any shopping! 
The Melbourne Hamfest in September was an exception, but the FADCA forum 
there included myself, N4XEO, and two others - hardly worth the trip.

If there is sufficient interest among those on this FADCA e-mail reflector 
to hold a FADCA forum at the Tampa Hamfest, I can chair that and we could 
talk about Winlink 2000 (WL2K) E-mail over ham radio and the packet network. 
I can field questions and we could go from there.  However, if there is not 
sufficient interest, N3PPC and I will likely not attend the hamfest in favor 
of putting in a full day on our packet-related projects here - of which 
there are many!

With this note I'm requesting those who are interested in attending / 
participating in an informal FADCA FORUM at the Ham Fest to respond to this 
message so the whole group will know how much interest there is.  Perhaps as 
the responses grows, others will decide to attend the hamfest.

If so, I will be avaialble to chair/moderate an informal FADCA forum.

73,

bud N0IA
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