[FADCA] Tampa Hamfest

[bud Thompson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hast" <wchast at gmail.com>
To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Gary Sessums" <gary at sessums.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 06:53
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Tampa Hamfest


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

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Nothing makes it worthwhile unless there is a direct or one-digi hop to the 
network.

bud