[South Florida DX Association] West Palm Beach Hamfest this Saturday

[Bill Dzurilla]

from http://www.palmbeachradiofest.com/:

The new Palm Beach County Ham Radio Fest

will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM n

West Palm Beach, Florida 

Free Admission

Raffle Prizes
FreeTailgating
Free Vendor Tables
(commercial vendors MUST pre-register and meet certain criteria for free table)

Forums (some broadcast LIVE)
Vendors, Testing, Tailgating, Food

Your Palm Beach County Ham Radio Fest is located at 5841 Corporate Way, West Palm Beach, Florida. Corporate Way is one block east of Rt. 95 on the north side of 45th Street. The coordinates are: 26.764 North by 80.092 degrees West.
Directions:

>From Rt. 95 southbound, take exit 74 (45th Street) to light.  Take a left onto 45th Street and stay to the left.  Take your first left onto Corporate Way to end.

>From Rt 95 northbound, take exit 74 (45th Street).  Bear right onto 45th Street and immediately get into the left lane.  Take your first left onto Corporate Way to end.

>From the Florida's Turnpike and you have SunPass, take exit 108 (Bee Line) to light.  Take left and continue to North Military Trail.  Take a right and proceed south to 45th Street.  Take a left on 45th Street.  After you pass under Rt. 95, take your first left on Corporate Way to end.

>From the Florida's Turnpike northbound and you do not have SunPass, take exit 97 to Southern Blvd.  Take a left and proceed to Rt. 95 north.  Follow above directions for Rt. 95 northbound.

>From the Florida's Turnpike southbound and you do not have SunPass, take exit 109 to PGA Blvd.  Take a left and proceed to Rt. 95 south.  Follow above directions for Rt. 95 southbound.

Talk-in is on 146.670, minus offset 600kHz, PL 110.9.

Raffle drawings will be held 5 minutes before each half hour from 8 AM to 3 PM - Listen for your winning number!

SCHEDULE
  	  	  	  	 
Time 	Event 	Presenter 	Affiliation/Position 	Room #
6:00 AM 	Staff On-site 			
7:00 AM 	Vendors for Set-up 			
7:00 AM 	Tailgaters for Set-up 		No Entry Before 7 AM!! 	
8:00 AM 	Building Open 	  	  	 
9:00 AM 	DX Forum 	Norm Alexander, W4QN & Tom Beattie, W4TTB 	Lighthouse Amateur Radio Alliance  	1
9:00 AM 	The Fine Art of Public Service Communications 	Warren Rothberg, W4WR 	ARRL Asst. Section Mgr. 	2
9:00 AM 	QCWA Forum 	Hugh Connolly, AG4HC 	Quarter Century Wireless Association Chapter 111 	3
9:00 AM 	QSL Card Checking Until 1 PM 	Don Search, W3AZD 	South Florida DX Association 	 
10:00 AM 	1st 50/50 Drawing 	  	  	 
10:00 AM 	ARRL Forum 	Jeff Beals, WA4AW & David Fowler, K4DLF 	ARRL Vice Director & Asst. Section Manager 	1
10:00 AM 	Digital Forum 	John Samuels, K2CIB 	Palms West Amateur Radio Club 	2
10:00 AM 	A Brief History of FM and Repeaters 	Steve Rudin, W1WSN 	  	3
11:00 AM 	D*Star Forum 	Tony Annese, KG4EXA & Ralph Tullo, N0LO 	Gold Coast Amateur Radio Association 	1
11:00 AM 	Contest Forum 	Kevin Bunin, K4PG 	Florida Contest Group 	2
11:00 AM 	Packet Radio Forum 	John Green, WB4MOZ 	Palm Beach Packet Group 	3
Noon 	 - Time for lunch! 	  	  	 
12:30 PM 	146.670 Repeater Assn Meeting 	Richard Gallant 	President AREC67 Repeater Assn 	1
1:00 PM 	900 MHz User Group Meeting 	Rob Pease 	Palms West ARC 	3
1:00 PM 	Florida Repeater Council Workshop 	Mark Filla, KS4VT 	FRC Director District 2 	2
1:00 PM 	Raffle - 2nd prize 			
1:30 PM 	Raffle - 1st prize 			
2:00 PM 	ARRL VE Exams 			3
3:00 	Event Closes