[FARC] [Fwd: hamfest]

[Bob Moroney]

"Attend" a hamfest via webcast! What next??

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Subject: 	hamfest
Date: 	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:36:11 -0500
From: 	Tom <tmedlin at midsouth.rr.com>
To: 	<k3erm at qsl.net>



*Please post on your web site or pass to other hams*

* *

*Live Video and Audio of the **Huntsville**, Al Hamfest weekend of 
August 19^th and* *20^th *

Many of you watched us Broadcast the Dayton Hamvention in live streaming 
video and audio this past May. Now you can watch us as we travel to the 
Huntsville, AL Hamfest. This is the big event for hams in the 
Southeastern United States. It will be at the Huntsville, Alabama's Von 
Braun Center
700 Monroe Street SW.

As many of you are aware, this is a great way to take part in a great 
ham radio experience even if you can not attend. Watch the live video 
and chat with other hams across the U.S. and even the world. Our last 
broadcast was viewed by hams in over 152 countries. The web site is 
http://wa5kub.com <http://wa5kub.com/>

We will be broadcasting from the Hamfest all day on Saturday Aug 19^th 
and again on Sunday Aug 20^th until closing at 2:00 PM. At times the 
camera may be in a fixed location showing the entire fleamarket but at 
other times we will be wearing the “Helmet Cam”. With the Helmet cam, 
you will actually be walking around with us and visiting all the 
exhibitors.

We may also broadcast live video of a visit to the Space Center on 
Friday afternoon Aug 18^th .

As on our last trip, we plan to try to broadcast live our drive to 
Huntsville on Friday morning Aug 18^th .. This will be the first year we 
have broadcast the Huntsville Hamfest so we don’t know exactly how well 
that part will work. Im sure we will have coverage on much of the trip 
but we might lose the signal in some parts of the drive. Even if we lose 
the connection, each of you will still be able to continue on the chat 
room on the video page. When we re-establish the connection you will see 
us reappear on the video. We also plan to transmit video after hours 
from the hotel. Who knows what we might find. On the website, I have 
tried to list a schedule of approximate times where we think we will be 
as we go down the road. We should be driving to Huntsville on the Friday 
evening and again back to Memphis, Tn Sunday afternoon. On the map you 
can see where we have coverage (violet color) and where we lose coverage 
(red color). Please watch for this schedule on http://wa5kub.com 
<http://wa5kub.com/> . I will try to update it as we finalize the exact 
times.

For more information on the Huntsville, AL Hamfest go to 
Http://hamfest.org <http://hamfest.org/>

Please help us spread this word out to all hams. Send it to your clubs 
and friends.

Thanks and hope to see you there.

Tom WA5KUB

Wa5kub at gmail.com