Home at last…
It means a lot, just being home. Familiar surroundings, sights & smells, & the mattress one is used to feeling, ahhhh….
Dayton was wet, but worth every minute, & a wonderful experience, & having gone since 1965, (I think) also a comfortable & enjoyable experience.
Highlights? My presentation at the Antenna Forum was very well-received. In fact, I’d say it was my most successful talk ever! Simply lots of favorable comments, including well over a dozen referring to the NCJ column. Writers enjoy such feedback, & I’m inspired to keep writing….K3NA’s paper also worth further review & study. The rain made traveling the flea market less fun, but there was a large selection of boat anchor gear out there, along with lots of empty spaces. Lots! Inside, the new crank up tower from Japan caused quite a stir–it was literally a show-stopper! You can read more about it online at:
http://www.luso.us/tower%2090US.html
Apparently, the tower did sell at Hamvention, but I don’t know who purchased it. It is one hell of a crank up tower, but a crank up, after all….
The 160M dinner was a treat. The K5D slideshow from W2GD managed to present 260 slides in 30 minutes of rapid fire fun. The show from the VK9GMW guys was almost the inverse–two guys, in an under-sized boat, waiting out a cyclone, using up all their provisions, but then still continuing on the DXpedition, catching fish to survive for a week, all the while running up the QSOs. K5D, on the other hand, was a well-organized ham radio invasion of Desecheo! As I say, a treat. The hospitality suites were the usual hotspots of activity–where you could meet some of radiosport’s best & brightest. Always great fun.
On I-70, eastbound, K3LR blew by me w/a grin & a wave, Sunday morning after the hamfest. I was on my way to visit my Mom, in Killbuck, Ohio. And then a brief visit w/ K8MFO after that. Don is a wealth of trivia, & I always enjoy chatting with him. He arranged lunch at a local Amish restaurant, what a bargain!
Finally home, & catching up on the blog, tons of correspondence, & even local tower work. Plus attending to the tower book MSS as much as possible. LOTS of very positive response to the book in Dayton, too!
