[Great-River-DX] Hello from Dayton Hamvention!

[Danny Pease]

Twitter and Facebook has been full of posts and pictures from Dayton. I
even caught a few sections of Contest University forma live online camera.
^ meters is working hard on getting into the summer Es season, but nothing
exotic for em so far. I have picked up a couple of new grids though.Still
needing HI to finish WAS on 6..

Danny


On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Jay Hainline <ka9cfd at mtcnow.net> wrote:

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> Just thought I would write and say hello to everyone. Have had a great time
> so far at Dayton Hamvention. The weather has been wonderful. Got to watch a
> helium balloon launch today for the first time. Interesting to see the prep
> work done then filling the balloon with helium and a good launch. The
> payload was beaconing on packet aprs and a slow scan tv transmitter.
>
> Got to have a nice chat with Dennis K7BV at the Yaesu booth. Yaesu is
> coming
> out with a new radio, FT-3000. Basically its a stripped down FT-5000 with a
> single receiver, no dual receive.
>
> Kenwood had the new 990 under glass. Not expected to be due out until near
> the end of the year. Its a large radio with 2 built in receivers.
>
> Saw Cliff K0CA working hard checking dx cards at the ARRL area along with
> Dave Patton NN1N.
>
> Some new amplifiers being shown both tube and solid state being
> manufactured
> in Europe and one solid state from the USA that was at the RF Parts booth.
> Will be interesting to see when they are fcc approved and what the price
> tag
> will be.
>
> I have not gone to any of the forums this year so cannot comment.
>
> Flea market has been busy. Lots of quality equipment for sale. I even saw 2
> Alpha 87a amplifiers for sale which for me, is a first here at Dayton.
>
> Looks like 6m maybe kicking up its heels some since I am here. Hope you
> guys
> are working stuff. Met HI3TEJ and 9Y4D who are active 6m guys.
>
> 73 for now,
>
> Jay KA9CFD
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