[SJRA-Members] Question from SJRA home page

[Ray Golley]

To all,
I have fond memories of the SJRA Hamfest/Picnic beginning in 1959 which is the year I joined 
SJRA. I may have attended a few years before that because it was the one thing you didn't want
to miss! I remember 55gal drums of boiling water with corn cooking in them. I remember two 
young kids shucking clams and guys eating them up as fast as they could shuck them! The food 
was endless, especially the dessert table. The highlight of the picnic for me was the fox hunt.
For those not familiar, it was a hidden 2 meter transmitter that you had to find and who ever 
had the shortest time finding it won. They released the hunters every 10 minutes or so.
I recall Brownie (W2PAU) with his arm out the driver's side window with his 2 meter Quad.
One year there was a guy from DVRA who had a hole in his car roof and an antenna mounted on a
pole that he could rotate from inside the car to get a good fix on the fox! This guy was either
crazy or he took this fox hunting sport very seriously. Another memory was when Brownie hid 
the fox just down the road from the park at Malaga Lake and loaded the metal railing on a 
small bridge where the water passed under the road. Everyone watched and rolled on the ground
laughing as the fox hunters drove back and forth past the hidden transmitter not realizing the 
RF was coming out of the railing!
The ham fest was great and I remember buying a 2 meter AM transceiver built in a metal box
with a handle to carrying it. It had three dry batteries in it that lasted an hour at best and 
a telephone handset attached. I carried that thing through the woods behind my house on many 
occasions talking to W2WL on his Heathkit Twoer not more that two miles away. Boy, how things 
have changed! Now you buy a three band hand held from China for $39.00 and walk in the same 
woods talking to someone 60 miles away through a repeater!
Oh well, we had more fun!! Fond memories anyway.

de
N3RG - Ray  






> On September 14, 2017 at 4:24 PM K2WB <ken at k2wb.com> wrote:
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> The Hamfest used to be held in Malaga off Rt 47. I went to the HamFests there in 1975
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> To: 'David Duffin' <David.Duffin at amtrustgroup.com>; 'SJRA LIST' <sjra-members at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [SJRA-Members] Question from sjra home page
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> Hi David, 
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> Thanks for sending a question to the Club,  I am not sure personally as I have only been a member for about 5 yrs  but I will certainly put you in the right direction so we can find out. 
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> I am going to carbon copy the General membership and see if we can get you an answer. 
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> On another note your brother Joe was my favorite  teacher  at Cherokee. He taught us about real life great guy.
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> If any members of the Club can give David an answer just reply to the email. 
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> Dennis Cioffi
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> From: David Duffin [mailto:David.Duffin at amtrustgroup.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 9:29 AM
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> Cc: David Duffin
> Subject: Question from sjra home page
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> Dear SJRA,
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> My dad, Joe Duffin, W2ORA, long time member and past president, used to take myself and siblings to a yearly  Hamfest back in 60’s-70’s?
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> I am inquiring as to where the Hamfest was held? What town? What years?
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> It was at a lakeside, believe cedar water, lots of huts and picnic tables.
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> Appreciate any information older members may have.
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> Thanks,
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> Dave Duffin, 
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