[K3PZN-List] Youthful Hams in VA Blue Ridge + Outgoing QSL Buro

[Curt Milton]

Mike

FB.  I suspect the school clubs themself do not host the hamfest (I could be 
wrong ...), but its a culture difference that may encourage more use of the 
buildings by community groups, perhaps.  


Nonetheless, nifty that ham radio is thriving south of the Potomac (and along 
the Blue Ridge, my ancestral home!), for old and young.  


Thanks also for your time and effort for our Outgoing QSL Buro!  With the new 
folk we have, I am thinking at a future meeting you should spend about 5 minutes 
explaining that anyone who is both a memeber of our club AND the ARRL can use 
'your service' -- and it provides a path to getting (some) DX QSL's.  As you and 
I both have 'small stations' we realize that we can participate in working DX, 
and getting this nifty momentos.  


73 Curt

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Fisher <n3vop at hotmail.com>
To: CCARC <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 10:52:24 AM
Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] Youthful Hams in VA Blue Ridge


These schools have a hamfest on the Saturday before the Berryville fest. Clink 
and I went there about 4 years ago. It is about the size of our tailgate fest. 
They use a gym for a few inside vendor's and had about 20 or so outside 
tailgaters. Some of the vendor's use it as a stop-over on their way to 
Berryville.

Mike F  N3VOP

> 
> I found this interesting article on youthful hams down in Frank's neck of the 
> woods (an area I am familiar with do to family relations down there):
> 
> http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/264867 -- wow 3 high schools with ham 
> clubs! maybe more than have survived in the entire state of MD (my school had a 
>
> club in Ohio but that was a few years ago, when the TR-4C was a new rig). 
> 
> 
> Also I heard a lot of traffic on the repeater associated with a later-than-I 
> expected balloon flight ... so I can imagine a report on the delay (??) and I 
>am 
>
> curious how many trackers participated (on the repeater anyway), and of course 

> conjecture on where this thing went. 
> 
> 
> 73 Curt
> 
> 
> 
                        
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