[FADCA] Tampa Hamfest

[Chuck Hast]

On 11/27/05, bud Thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> ----- 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
>
> * * *
>
> Nothing makes it worthwhile unless there is a direct or one-digi hop to the
> network.
>
Someone needs to step up to the plate down there, remember we were
not able to get to the system here in Tampa last year. I will see if I can
come up with a portable switch with some cojones this time if nothing
else. But we really need a switch down there that will cover that area.
Now would be a good time for some of those people to do something if
they are interested.


--
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."