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[Elecraft_K3] Re: Fun times at Dayton this weekend!
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Bob
Your friend is almost 100% correct. He misses the mark on "low end truck stop food". It would require considerable improvement to reach that status.
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73, Bob K2TK On 5/14/2015 2:00 PM, Tom Fitzgerald kd0bcf@... [Elecraft_K3] wrote:
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Bill Blomgren
Run down is an understatement on the facilities.. (It is in competition with municipally owned convention centers and assorted other facilities in the area.. It started life as a ice rink for a pro team.... That's the first building I stumbled into... From there, things went sideways.. You go through THAT building (where typically ICOM is to your left.. then HRO.. The convention folk to the right.. straight ahead is Kenwood and MFJ.. and an assortment of other folk.. then off to the other areas... audio isle.. the north building where Elecraft and a few others are found.. The best of the food was outdoors... hotdogs (not grossly overcooked) - and burgers (hockey puck). There are a LOT of non-profits that do food at the get-together to survive for the rest of the year. (Boy scouts doing badge lanyards being the non-food fund raiser.. if they do 20,000 lanyards at 4 each, that's probably survival $ for camp!) Since it is privately owned, you don't have the same problems you do with RARS fest down in Raleigh.. or the Charlotte hamfest... that being union operatives handling all the food operations. (A $10 burger that is no better than the ones at Dayton for half that being an example...) KK4QDZ - Now with Extra Class Priv's, and a tiny KX3 to enjoy them! |
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Jim Lowman
I have to agree with your friend, Bob, based on our one-and-only experience with Dayton in 2013.
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At that time I had been licensed, General-class or higher, for almost 50 years. I will add that there were a lot of guys riding those electric carts. At first I found them to be an annoyance, but later used them to my advantage. I would follow one from place to place, allowing the driver to part the way for me. The XYL's report on the restrooms: One woman who was leaving a stall told her, "This one actually flushes." Oddly, the mens' room over by the room where the Drake presentation was held, was kept fairly clean, considering the amount of traffic. The one that the XYL had used was in the main, dingy, dimly-lighted arena. We vowed never to return until DARA finds a better facility. 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 5/14/2015 9:58 PM, Bob robertlarson@... [Elecraft_K3] wrote:
Your friend is almost 100% correct. He misses the mark on "low end truck stop |
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Stephen Bloom
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