hamvention 2002 tm you’re not in kansas anymore… ted turner ve3lv ben price ve3cda

HamVention 2002TM

You’re not in Kansas anymore…

Ted Turner VE3LV

Ben Price VE3CDA

Getting to Dayton (from Ottawa)

• 1150 kilometres14 hours of reasonable drivingOttawa – Detroit on the 401Detroit – Dayton on 75 south

• Customs (at the border)

30 minutes going (bridge traffic)

5 minutes returning

Location of HamVention

Accommodations and Meals

• All hotels are booked in advance

• Hotel rates are about double the normal rates for the same room

• Lots and lots of American restaurants

• The coffee sucks

Hotel to HamVention™

• Park in the Salem Mall and take the shuttle bus

• Park at the HamVention

The Salem Mall

• We parked at the Salem Mall and took the shuttle bus to Hara Arena

• The mall is about 2 kilometres from the arena

• The bus ride costs $2 per day

Waiting on the busat the Salem Mall

Purchasing a bus ticketCan you spot the VE3?

Shuttle bus ticket ($2 U.S.)

Long bus lines, but it moved quickly

In the bus(the only vehicle without 4 antennas)

Arriving on Friday morning

Buying a $22 ticket

The ‘big’ picture‘We took this from our helicopter’

There are 3 major areas of interest

• Inside the Hara Arena(s) 500 exhibits

• Inside, at the forums (or seminars)

• Outside, at the flea-market, 2500 vendors

Our first look inside,this is the ‘main’ building

A forum in progress

Outside, at the flea-market…

It rained a bit on Friday…

Friday

• We spent most of Friday inside…

The not-so-good floor plan

The good (blue) floorplan It’s very handy to have a good floorplan

I’ve got this old talkie and the battery is dead…

All I want for Christmas…

Inside vendors…

More inside vendors…

What kind of rocket is this, anyway?

Look! Mecca…

Stereo Kenwoods

Yes, can you tell me where the MFJ booth is?

Ah, here it is…

Hey! Where’s Martin?

Here’s Martin!Hey Martin, what can we have for FREE!

He gave us his card…

…and we gave him ours

QCWA – Jim Walsh, hard at work

Gord West, live and direct

A re-enactment of HamVention DXing (VE3LV will explain)

Back at the ranch

Reading up on my wish list

HamVention was big news in Dayton

Saturday

Arriving Saturday morning

Saturday

• We spent the day outside, roaming…

• People we met while on patrol

Lots of Antennas

Is this VE3GK?

That’s a funny looking windshield wiper

Truckers forever…

Check out the screwdriver

We saw lots of spiders?

Tall towers

One is just not enough

Now for the ‘funny’ peopleIf you look closely, you’ll see an angel

N3TPM/portable 8 land

There’s one in every crowd

Paparazzi are everywhere…

…everything in this booth is free…

QRP dummy load (cheap)

Gee, those are weird looking tubes…

Old radios

Very nicely arranged

SB104 A or B?

More tubes

National tuner

Directional, or not?..

Lunch?

Yahoooooo

This guy’s giving away Yaesu hats

Canada, eh?

Whoa, I feel like I’m falling…

Going to the dogs…

VE3DSRJim from Willowdale

Hummer with attitude

Need a techtronics plug-in?

Here, put this in your mouth…

The guy on the left I recoginze…

Wow, this place clears out quick!

Poor people line up for the bus back to the Salem Mall

Our helicopter coming to pick us up

Hara Arena

Emergency vehicles

More emergency stuff

Wheelchair

Sunday

Breakfast with Ohio’s finest

Fuzzy focusing, a new technology

What kind of stuff can you buy at the HamVention?

Radios

Super Glue

Rocks

Lots of Catalogues

Surgical stuff

Slot machines

Red lights…

Underwater radios

A desk for your radio

Nuclear detonator

Everything but the…

Snacktime on Sunday

May we help you?

Ever try to take a picture, then someone walks in front?

Same picture, no hat

You’ll NEVER see it this quiet

In back of these people…

Getting ready for the Sunday draw…

Our local club hosts

Dayton was on the Webcast…

The prizes are on the right

Waiting on the prize draw…

Is that an antenna in your hat, or are you happy to see me?

A hush falls over the crowd, during the prize draw

Is that all we get?

Flight 123 has been delayed…

What’s that sign say?

Going home with their treasures…

Until next year

Questions?Yes, I have a question…

When can I go to Dayton?Let’s go THIS YEAR!