DAYTON 2006!!! Who's IN?

Post by **Wowbagger** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:24 am

I'll be there - I think I'll wear my old IFR polo shirts (I can't wear them when I see customers, as "IFR" icht verboten and all must be Aeroflex now).

Of course, that could be a mistake as I could get mobbed by people wanting service monitor information...

And I will have my COM-120B in the car with me.

(No, I don't think I'll be able to get a hold of a 2975 lab machine, but I may look into it....)

Rayjk110 · Post by **Rayjk110** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:49 pm

Turns out I will be going for sure....

Will be camping out at some campground (forget which one, but will have IMBE VHF stuff and UHF conv.)

Post by **escomm** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:20 pm

it's unfortunate dayton is basically at the same time as iwce this year

KD8GWD · Post by **KD8GWD** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:46 am

Im hoping to be there, Depends on my work schedule...

radioactive69 · Post by **radioactive69** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:56 am

Just got vacation approved... I am going. Last year picked up three MSF Control Boards and a battery revert power supply that all worked. XTS batteries were a bargin and they still are working well. Will program a Hamfest zone. Doug.

KE4NYVJR · Post by **KE4NYVJR** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:59 pm

Any final word on ASTRO freqs for this year? I finally got my VHF ASTRO Saber III and can't wait to use it this year.

Post by Pj » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:17 pm

Same as the past few years.... I think the freq's are above or in another thread. I'll post them in here if they are not above

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:14 am

It's about halfway down the first page of this thread.

KE4NYVJR · Post by **KE4NYVJR** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:06 pm

JAYMZ wrote:It's about halfway down the first page of this thread.

OK, I saw those. I wasn't sure if they had been agreed on or were just random list people were throwing in. Thanks.

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:06 am

KE4NYVJR wrote:
JAYMZ wrote:It's about halfway down the first page of this thread.
OK, I saw those. I wasn't sure if they had been agreed on or were just random list people were throwing in. Thanks.

Nope, that is what has been used for the past 4 years almost. So we've generally kept with that.

Also... would any of you guys mind doing a joint Batlabs/Hamsexy dinner meet on Friday night?

Since there are a lot of cross memberships between the 2 sites it may make things a little easier.

Woody_99 · Post by **Woody_99** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:48 am

I'm thinking of going... wondering if there's any chance of wireless internet outside?

wa1tej · Post by **wa1tej** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:34 pm

Batlabs wrote:Name Frequency Service PL

Green 151.880 MURS D143
Blue 151.940 MURS D143
Red 154.570 MURS D143

Is there much activity on these channels at Dayton?

Jack

Post by Pj » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:34 pm

Usually... if anyone answers someone calling, its a different story. Some like to be somewhat anonomous.

wa1tej · Post by **wa1tej** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:11 am

Pj wrote:Usually... if anyone answers someone calling, its a different story. Some like to be somewhat anonomous.

Thanks! The nice thing about the MURS channels is that you don't have to feel guilty about commercial traffic, as opposed to the Ham channels.

Jack

Rayjk110 · Post by **Rayjk110** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:19 pm

Woody_99 wrote:I'm thinking of going... wondering if there's any chance of wireless internet outside?

Heh. Think about it....this is the biggest annual gathering of radio/nerd/electronics/computer people in the US. I'm sure there will be, though. I heard that there was a couple people hosting it there last year.

Woody_99 · Post by **Woody_99** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 3:24 pm

Haha... yeah... "yud think"...

We'll see I suppose!

SOC · Post by **SOC** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:49 pm

Im in, let me know when it is guys, andy_sw_04@hotmail.com

matthew-baker · Post by **matthew-baker** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:19 pm

I'm more than likely going to be there, since I live a 1/2 hour away!

When is this dinner thing, and where is it at?

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:52 am

matthew-baker wrote:I'm more than likely going to be there, since I live a 1/2 hour away!

When is this dinner thing, and where is it at?

There is a sticky for this. Looks like Saturday and I think Outback Steakhouse is in the lead for votes. Address i'm sure wil be posted somewhere once it's worked out. I know where it is to drive there but not to give directions.

On a different subject, is anyone from Batlabs pitching in on a flea market space? I'd like to get in on that if possible, if only to park a cooler and chair and maybe a radio or two.

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:50 am

The directions are quite simple- take I70 to I75 south, get off at the Benchwood exit, turn west, the first road you'll come to is Miller Ln., go north and you can't miss it. Some of the map programs show an exit directly to Miller Ln. but as of last word IT'S NOT THERE!!!

Outback's address is 6800 Miller Ln.
Lonestar's address is 6868 Miller Ln.

Rick Rock · Post by **Rick Rock** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:52 am

We do need to get a bench count going, I know several members are getting them, so what's your numbers?

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:02 am

spot 193 indoors baby

Post by **alex** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:25 am

Rick Rock wrote: Outback's address is 6800 Miller Ln.
Lonestar's address is 6868 Miller Ln.

And the hotel....

6600 Block of Miller Ln.

Nah, that wasn't planned.

M1225 · Post by **M1225** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:09 pm

count me in as well!!!

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:31 pm

alex wrote:
Rick Rock wrote: Outback's address is 6800 Miller Ln.
Lonestar's address is 6868 Miller Ln.
And the hotel....

6600 Block of Miller Ln.

Nah, that wasn't planned.

NOt possible.

BTW-anyone want to bring a small repeater for the fun of it? If someoen had a high enough room it might be o.k.

Seth

Rayjk110 · Post by **Rayjk110** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:38 pm

Im at a campground, otherwise I would bring mine.

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:07 pm

I have no way to get it there, but I could send my repeater that I built for the hilltop here...

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:34 pm

I can bring my gr300

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:46 am

sglass wrote:spot 193 indoors baby

Looking to share any space?

Post by **alex** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:50 pm

sglass wrote:I can bring my gr300

Bring the GR300.

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:58 pm

OK

I can brign the gr300

what about antenna and location?

fleamarket area?

oh btw
repeater is on 442.900

anything in dayton on that freq?

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:59 am

sglass wrote:OK

I can brign the gr300

what about antenna and location?

fleamarket area?

oh btw
repeater is on 442.900

anything in dayton on that freq?

I think a covert operation to the roof of Hara is in order

silverbk · Post by **silverbk** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:41 pm

I will be attending Dayton, and would love to hook up.

I would like to suggest a simplex frequency and pl so that anyone from here will be able to talk with anyone else from here.

I am a ham and GMRS licensee, but maybe some other folks are not so maybe a MURS freq with an odd PL will do the trick?

I hit the Outback a few times during my stay last year, not too far, nice place to meet.

Post by **alex** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:05 pm

There's already a frequency plan that we use to gather on, and it's posted in this thread.

You can find most of us on those channels... Most of the time, most of us do run digital, but monitor analog if that's all you have.

-Alex

DPL · Post by **DPL** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:00 am

sglass wrote:OK

I can brign the gr300

what about antenna and location?

fleamarket area?

oh btw
repeater is on 442.900

anything in dayton on that freq?

According to the OARC website (local repeater council), there is one way west of Dayton in a town called Eaton. It says it's on 173.8 PL. It seems far enough away, though, that you shouldn't have any problems. Especially if you run DPL

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:32 pm

yeah I have t programmed up with 143 dpl

K8TEK · Post by **K8TEK** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:33 pm

I take it the input is 447.9

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:50 pm

JAYMZ wrote:I am bringing, my cell phone, 1 VHF portable, 1 spare battery and 1 charger. Beyond that.... yer outta luck here.

ax the charger

I'll have the shoe and the impres

yeah 447.900 tim

do we have a spot for it?

Mike B · Post by **Mike B** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:31 pm

I will be there on 900 MHz HAM. Put drool proof plastic over all your cool radios and test gear

.

I hope Panik brings back the sledge hammer guy for some entertainment.
________
Mike B
http://www.open.org/~blenderm/

Post by **alex** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:02 am

You missed the year where he was smashing Micor's.....

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:51 am

Mike B wrote:I will be there on 900 MHz HAM. Put drool proof plastic over all your cool radios and test gear .

I hope Panik brings back the sledge hammer guy for some entertainment.
________
Mike B
http://www.open.org/~blenderm/

Was that the guy that was smashing the govt. split UHF Spectras last year in the back corner of the flea market lot?

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:55 am

yeah

the guy selling all the "untested" broken crap

Post by **alex** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:25 am

like us for a couple years in a row - we used micor's ro something similar in case design (Maratrac's) to anchor our tent... Panik did the same.

Either way - the'll be there...

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:02 am

sglass wrote:
JAYMZ wrote:I am bringing, my cell phone, 1 VHF portable, 1 spare battery and 1 charger. Beyond that.... yer outta luck here.
ax the charger

I'll have the shoe and the impres

yeah 447.900 tim

do we have a spot for it?

I asked for a room on one of the upper floors of our hotel, since we are about 3-4 air miles max from HARA. So you can put he repeater at my room if you like.

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:10 am

o.k.

antenna?

any of you locals have an antenna we can use?

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:46 am

sglass wrote:o.k.

antenna?

any of you locals have an antenna we can use?

I will bring one. It's a small and easily transported base antenna. I have to find where I put it though and check the specs. Given it's short size(about 2ft long), the gain probably is unity or 2db but it will at least give everyone coverage around the hotel/longhorn, etc.

Similar to this model but tunable:
http://www.antenex.com/c_search.asp?txt ... AIN+MODELS

K8TEK · Post by **K8TEK** » Mon May 08, 2006 2:39 am

I'll bring a PL-259 to mini UHF connectors.

I will also have an impres charger on hand.

Post by **batdude** » Mon May 08, 2006 3:34 am

can you put your name on the IMPRES and bring it to the booth so we can have a single charger somewhere to hit our radios.

?

doug

redbeard · Post by **redbeard** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:49 am

batdude wrote:can you put your name on the IMPRES and bring it to the booth so we can have a single charger somewhere to hit our radios.

?

doug

Anyone charging a battery gets booth duty 'til the charge cycle is over

Post by **Wowbagger** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:02 am

How secure is this booth going to be - as in, will there be somebody there at all times, or somebody who can at least move expensive things into a safe place when the booth is not manned?

I *may* be able to grab my 2975, and having a place for it to live at Dayton, rather than it staying in my hotel room, would make testing things much easier for me. Of course, I would in turn allow folks to use it to test their own stuff.

DAYTON 2006!!! Who's IN?

Are you attending Dayton?

I'll be there

fest up...

Re: fest up...

Heck yeh

What's the frequency Kenneth?

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Re: ..

How secure is this booth