[FADCA] Tampa Hamfest

[Chuck Hast]

On 11/27/05, bud Thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

I should be there, not sure I am going to bring the whole switch this time,
though I may try to build one that uses less box and bring it.

--
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."