[MAMS] Central States VHF conference

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I'm going. I'm on the program Saturday morning, with 6 papers, some very 
short. With RAGBRAI arriving in town Thursday evening its going to be a 
traffic madhouse, some 15,000 bicycles and many support vehicles. They 
will be coming in from the west on county roads for the bicycles and 
likely US30 mostly for the support vehicles. That makes using I-380 
probably the best access to the conference hotel which is 2 blocks from 
exit 17. Friday morning the mob leaves going east on a county road. I 
expect a fraction of the bicycle mob will wander off on other roads just 
to be different from the planned route, that I found in a file titled 
"CR-Ragbrai-Route-Map.pdf" on the official Cedar Rapids Ragbrai web 
page. Be careful about speed on I-380, the city is raking in lots of 
cash from automated speed cameras along that road.

One of the on-line directions programs says I'm 130 miles by US20 and 
I-380 and US-20 is ten miles north of here so it should be 110 miles by 
IA 175 and county roads and a bit of I-380. I plan on an early Friday 
morning start. Antennas I'll bring and probably on the 10 G transverter 
for NF testing, won't have the rover assembled or along.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 7/22/2012 3:34 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> Who's going? I will be leaving right around noon on Thursday for the 4
> 1/2 hour drive from here. I have a room booked at the Clarion Inn and
> I'm all set. I might take along a couple antennas for testing and I'm
> going to take my portable microwave setup for the Dish Bowl on Friday
> morning.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>