Subj : Delta Div Hamfests To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Dec 15 2022 13:16:44 Greetings Delta Division Members! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah and best wishes to you and your families during this holiday season! I had a great time last weekend during the ARRL 10m Contest even though thunderstorms kept me QRT more time than I was QRV. However, the band was open and I ran some terrific rates on CW to all corners of the world when the QRN allowed. The bands are back so get on the air and work those contacts! This weekend is the Minden ARA Christmas Hamfes2022 - Dec 17, 2022! MARA Christmas Hamfest Location: Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway Dr. Minden, LA 71055 Website: http://n5rd.org Sponsor: Minden Amateur Radio Association Talk-In: 147.300 Public Contact: Mary Sullivan , KD5LKB 6018 Fox Chase Trail Shreveport, LA 71129 Phone: 318-918-9353 Email: Kjndoll58@gmail.com This very popular event is held in December and draws participants, including dealers, from surrounding states and has gotten bigger each year. There is plenty to see and do for everyone, including testing sessions, great food, door prizes, and main prizes that any ham would love to win. This event provides a "hamfest fix" in a period of the year during which few hamfests are held. ** Location: Our Annual Christmas Hamfest is held at the Civic Center in Minden, LA, located on 520 Broadway St, Minden, LA. Times: 8:00am doors open Prize drawing held approximately 2:00pm Door prizes being drawn periodically during the day Talk-In: 444.650 PL186.2 Swap tables will be available for $15 per table for those who wish to sell merchandise. (To reserve swap tables, contact Fran on our "Contact Us" page.) There are still table available! Tickets: Entrance tickets are $10 each (includes 1 prize ticket), available at door at the hamfest. Prize tickets for the drawings are available at door or from club members and are priced: $1 each, 6-$5, 15-$10, 35-$20, 50-$25, 100-$50. Tickets may be obtained from any member or contact Fran, KD5LKB, or Dustin, W5CFI (email addresses at 'Contact Us' on main menu strip, top of page). VE Testing - Registration for testing - 8:30am-9:30am Crafts & Gifts: Many tables loaded with crafts - wind chimes, candles, crochet, etc. - good source for wonderful Christmas gifts. Those vendors who have agreed to participate this year in the hamfest include: Main Trading Company The SignMan of Baton Rouge Prizes: Great door prizes drawn throughout the day! First prize is a new Icom IC-7300! For more information got to the MARA webpage n5rd.org I will see you in Minden! DE K5UZ ***************************************************************** As announced in the January 2023 issue of QST (see announcement link above), ARRL is celebrating a year-long operating event honoring all ARRL volunteers: Volunteers On the Air. In similar fashion to the 2014 ARRL Centennial Celebration, and the 2018 International Grid Chase, this event will be exclusively driven only by QSOs uploaded to Logbook of The World (LoTW). Highlights of the event include: - Earning Points for contacting W1AW Portable Stations: There will be week-long activations of portable W1AW/# stations in all 50 states, and in several US Possessions/Territories, that will generate on-air activity to earn points. Each state will be activated twice. The schedule of when which states will be activated as posted in the dashboard above will be updated as changes/additions occur. See the POINTS TABLE for the full list of points. - Contacting ARRL Volunteers or Members on the air: ARRL Officers, Directors, Section Managers (and their appointees), Staff, and even Members domestically (and DX) can be contacted for points. See the POINTS TABLE for the full list of points. Using Logbook of the World (LoTW - see http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world) as the QSOs data source, the 2023 Volunteers On The Air event features W1AW activations from all 50 states (twice) and several territories during 2023. Weeks will begin on a Wednesday and end on a Tuesday. Some weeks will be shown as off weeks to avoid other major operating events. Participants will work W1AW portable stations and ARRL volunteers (see links in dashboard at top of this page) to earn QSO points. Participants do not need to upload to, or participate in LoTW. Uploads to LoTW by W1AW portable stations and by the volunteers will feed the points scoring system. A Leaderboard will be activated after the event ramps up, and Certificates will be availble during and after the event concludes. Once the year is completed, a final summary will be released. Revisit this page regularly for updates: http://www.arrl.org/volunteers-on-the-air ************************************************************************* UPCOMING HAMFESTS/CONVENTIONS SELARC - 41st Annual - Hammond HamFest Date: 01/21/2023 Location: Ponchatoula Community Center 300 N. 5th St., Ponchatoula, La. 70454 Ponchatoula, LA 70454 Website: http://www.selarc.org Sponsor: Southeast Louisiana ARC (SELARC) Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 147.000 / -600 khz / 107.2 pl Public Contact: Tyrone Burns , N5XES POB 1324 Hammond, LA 70404 Phone: 985-687-2139 Email: n5xes@arrl.net ** Jackson MS Capital City Hamfest 2023, ARRL Mississippi State Convention Start Date: 01/27/2023 End Date: 01/28/2023 Location: Mississippi Trademart 1200 Mississippi St. Jackson, MS 39201 Website: http://www.msham.org Sponsor: Jackson Amateur Radio Club Talk-In: 146.76- 77hz Public Contact: Jim Armstrong , AK5J 1103 Pinehurst Place Jackson, MS 39202 Phone: 601-709-6740 Email: ak5j@arrl.net **************************************************************** Until next time, 73 ES DX DE K5UZ WB4RHQ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARRL Delta Division Director: David A Norris, K5UZ k5uz@arrl.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .