Subj : Xenia Hamfest!
To   : ALL
From : Fakeshemp4real
Date : Fri May 26 2023 12:20:00

I had myself a great time at this years gathering. Went again with a friend 
and enjoyed all the flea market tents and the vendors as well. Finally got 
joined up with OMISS, and had a fun time at the dinner (won a HT and a line 
filter!) If you aren't familiar, OMISS is a worked all states group that has 
been around for quite sometime, and I'm the 14860th member. So, I read that 
people were calling the fleamarket out in the middle "the big island", I never 
heard that once. But I'm sure *someone* called it that. I found two nice items 
in the fleamarket, a dumb terminal (Link brand, don't know anything about it) 
and a working panasonic KX something or other dot-matrix printer. I can't wait 
to get this thing hooked up with a machine and do some fun stuff. (I'm messing 
around with the idea of using the dot-matrix printer to make aniline dye 
masters for a gelly print, think old 'zines.) But it would be fun to hook up 
to a BBS and get a functional, 'headless' output. Just gonna need to grab a 
big pile o' form feed. Back to the hamfest; I attended the ATV forum, but it 
was way back by the grandstand, and I was late. The information I did get was 
useful, however. Three key elements discussed were the HiDes receiver, 
transmitter, and an amplifier. This all digital TV, both in 70cm and 1.2 GHz. 
It was interesting, but ATV is hampered by needing more than one person 
interested in it! I need to get a group who want to do TV and really work at 
it. But hobbies within hobbies is a tough sell for some. Oh well, packet seems 
to be at least busy enough for experimentation with others. I snagged a new 
gen 4 raspberry Pi at the fest and now ..... what to do... I only have the 
one, I want it running everything, weather station, BBS, home automation... 
I'm sure I won't be doing half of it. If you have any suggestions, feel free 
to suggest. Sadly Gordy was not there this year. I didn't talk to him last 
year, and my friend was wanting his audio code learning set signed. But I hope 
all is well with him. And if you enjoyed Hamfest '23, "the Year of the 
Volunteers" I'm interested in hearing your experience. 73's, -KC3GJU
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