[SADXA] YUMA Report

[Tom Fagan]

Lightning took out power for the first two hours on Saturday but they had 
generators running in a few minutes.

The people showed up and it was pretty packed on Saturday. There were no 
overflys on Sat except one private jet from New Mexico which brought 8 people to 
the hamfest.  Most of the tailgaters wound up under the ramadas during the 
rain.  I never got over there we had quite the line.  


ICOM did not ship their stuff in, some sort of shipping error.  Joe from HRO was 
sick and Jose fell off the truck while packing it so HRO did not make it.  That 
happens.

Well over 300 people enjoyed dinner on Saturday night and over 30 door prizes 
were given out.

I'll know how many showed up in a week or so but it was well over 300 for sure.

Jerry, did you tell everyone the good news?
 Tom Fagan K7DF
Section Manager Arizona
ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™ 




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From: JERRY <JDWOTHE at COX.NET>
To: Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 6:28:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SADXA] YUMA Report

Ditto to Dicks comments.

As we watched the Harriers go by yesterday we knew when some of them came in 
at about 50 Knots, all the thrust was down on us, and it sounded like it. 
The noise from the FA-18s didn't hold a candle to the Harriers, noise wise.

It was disappointing as there were so few sellers with stuff someone would 
want to buy. We had high hopes of Saturday being better but when we got up 
this morning, those thoughts were dashed by the sound of thunder and the 
heavy pitter patter of rain at times.

We didn't even stop as we passed the fairground headed for Tucson. And as 
Dick mentioned it was a bit dicey with the dust across the Interstates in 
places. A couple of times the big rigs just disappeared right in front of 
us. I did notice, on the news tonight,  the Highway Patrol closed I-10 for a 
while after we went through around Picacho some place.

Not sure there will be a next year however.

Jerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Solomon" <w1ksz at q.com>
To: "SADXA" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>; "BART" <bart_users at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:57 PM
Subject: [SADXA] YUMA Report


> Mike (KC9ORD) and I went to Yuma Friday morning and returned today. I
> thought the Friday
> crowd was small and the number of tail-gaters limited. I think we get more
> at the Ajo fests,
> but I only have a sample of one for Yuma.
> On Friday, the fly-boys were out in force, and let me tell you, a Harrier
> flying by overhead at
> low altitude is one ear piercing screaming machine.
>
> On Saturday, they limited the flights, but since the sky's opened up and 
> the
> Vasser came down from
> Himmel in buckets, it wasn't much help. The Tail-Gaters fled and the main
> Exhibit Hall was in
> darkness. Something about a power outage.
>
> The return trip on Saturday was a challenge. High winds, lots off blowing
> dust, 0 - 0 conditions a
> couple of times that really produced a pucker (you want an 18 wheeler 
> behind
> you who is doing 65
> and is BLIND !!).
>
> Well, as we used to say in Boston, ..."wait till next year"...
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
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