FEBRUARY 25, 2012 The Dalton Hamfest will take place at the North Georgia Fairgrounds at 500 Legion Drive in Dalton. Doors will open at 8AM EST with vendor table setup beginning at 7AM. Admission is $5.00, tailgating $5.00 with free parking. Talk-in on 145.230 Call: W4DRC Link to the Dalton Hamfest
ANNOUNCING THE 13TH ANNUAL TEN-TEC FACTORY HAMFEST!
Fri. Sept. 28 and Sat. Sept. 29, 2012!
No Tailgating on Friday!
Welcome hams from around the country to the 13th annual Ten-Tec factory hamfest! Featuring a discount sale on Friday and Saturday on new and used Ten-Tec ham radio equipment! Door prizes! Tour of the Ten-Tec factory! Meet the Ten-Tec factory representatives! 4 HF stations will be simultaneously on the air to try out the latest equipment. License testing at 12:30 Saturday afternoon.
When:
Friday 9/28/12 from 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday 9/29/12 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Where:
Ten-Tec, Inc., 1185 Dolly Parton Parkway,
Sevierville, TN 37862.
We are 2.5 miles east of downtown Sevierville on highway 411 north,
across the street from Sevier County High School.
International Marconi Day (IMD) is a 24-hour amateur radio event held
annually to celebrate the birth of Guglielmo Marconi on the 25th April
1874. The IMD event is not a contest: it is an opportunity for amateurs
around the world to make point-to-point contact with historic Marconi
sites using HF communications techniques similar to those used by
Marconi, and to gain an attractive Award for achieving the requisite
number of Marconi stations worked
IMD is usually held on the Saturday closest to Marconi's birthday, when
amateur radio stations are established and operated from original
historic sites, or nearby. These stations are known as the 'Award
Stations' and are listed on the the Cornish Radio Amateur Club Web Site.
Cornish Radio Amateur Club (CRAC) will operate GB4IMD from Pendennis
Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall, overlooking Falmouth Harbour where Marconi
spent some 10 days aboard his yacht Elettra in April 1923. Other
stations will operate on or near a site where Marconi carried out
experiments or where Marconi equipment was used prior to his death in
1937.
On the US side, the Marconi Cape Cod Radio Club, KM1CC, will operate
participate at the Coast Guard Station on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham,
Massachusetts, just south of Marconi's original 1903 station on Cape
Cod. If you would like to operate an IMD award station, register your
station prior to the event, providing full details.
THE BUTLER COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION ("BCARA") will
be conducting an amateur radio "special event" February 18-26, 2012 to
commemorate a historic Washington's Birthday amateur radio message relay
which was conducted on February 22, 1916 by members of the American Radio
Relay League (ARRL); formed in 1914; and members of the Radio League of
America (1915-1921).
The special event will be conducted from BCARA's club station W8WRK located
in the original station building of Special Amateur Special Land Station
"8ZU" (1915-1919) which was one of the twenty-seven primary receiving and
sending stations used for the February 22, 1916 radio message relay!
(Special Land Station 8ZU, at 329 N C Street, Hamilton, OH was operated by
the Doron Brothers Electrical Company. The Dorons operated amateur radio
stations "D5" (pre-1911), "8AJT" (1912-1915), Special Experimental Station
"8XAG" (1922-1925), and "WRK" (1922-1930) which was the first broadcast
radio station in the City of Hamilton and our country's 57th licensed
broadcast radio station.)