[SFDXA] Dayton Hamvention Attendance

[Bill]

06/13/2014*

Dayton Hamvention Attendance Up Slightly:*

Dayton Hamvention®has announced on its website that 24,873 people turned 
out for Hamvention 2014. That was up slightly from 2013, when 24,542 
attended the annual, 3-day international gathering. Hamvention 2014 was 
a Regional ARRL National Centennial Event. Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, was 
the 2014 general chairman. The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA 
<http://www.w8bi.org/>) has sponsored Hamvention since 1952. Originally 
called the Southwestern Ohio Ham-vention, the inaugural event, held in 
March in downtown Dayton, attracted 600 attendees --- twice as many as 
had been predicted. Hamvention attendance peaked at 33,669 in 1993.