Well, I know that you all enjoyed hearing about the explosive events at the Dayton hamfest this year. It just made our days as well, let me tell you. There is always something interesting to see while you are there. Sometimes it may be that elusive part or a new radio being released. Or sometimes, it just happens to be the people that are there potentially looking for the same stuff that you are. I’m not sure what that really means, but it is something for you to reflect on in your spare time. Yeah, you chew that one over.
Doug and I wandered into the hamfest on Friday morning just as the place opened. I really don’t want to bore you with pictures of people with towers on their head, and stuff like that. We’ve all seen that dude, and he really is pretty harmless, and is a real good sport about wearing a hard hat with a tower on top of it. It is not like he is running a kilowatt through his head or something. But I will comment that there was a rise in the amount of people wearing antennas mounted on their hat, helmet, backpack or other such places. I’m all for having a good signal, but how about keeping the RF away from your important parts, people?
You all ready know that hot American models (aka Hams) are not really that common at hamfests or any radio related event. This should not surprise you. One of the few (under age 75) females there appears to have made a large investment in hair spray and mouse. I commend her for her efforts, and hope that she had a good ground plane in there. She too was a good sport and readily posed for pictures. Can you hear me now? That is what I really want to know. For some reason, she did not take my picture, despite the very nice camera that she had with her. I never did catch a glimpse of what radio she might have been using.
You know there is so much crap there. I can’t imagine why people haul the large quantity of sometimes remotely related to RF gear there for display in hopes that some poor soul will lay down and give them all kinds of money for their junk. In some cases, these sales will make old men take their clothes off and show their tighty whiteys as well. I am not sure quite what kind of deal is going on, as I was trying to control the urge to vomit. But lets be real, it doesn’t look like anything that any of us need, so I just crop dusted on through there and made my way on to another section of the show.
Because I realize that this is probably more entertaining than me telling 
you what radios I saw (but don’t worry I will do later) I will share one more last photo of the flea market. I’m not quite sure who is checking who out in this particular instance, but I for one wish that she would sit down and zoom on past. Now stay tuned, as time permits over the next couple of days I will show you some actual radio related items from the show. Because if you looked hard enough, that stuff was there as well. Now have a good weekend.
