{"id":2147,"date":"2011-02-28T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/hamfest-report\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:49:26","slug":"hamfest-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/hamfest-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamfest Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1010239.jpg\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1010237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1010237.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579276683829075090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Bert, WF7I, at Winterfest<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I had a great time at the Vienna Wireless Winterfest. The weather was very nice, so I moved my sales operation out to the tailgate area. I managed to sell the Heathkit Twoer that I was trying to get rid of (the receiver is a REGEN). Also sold a bunch of old books, an old o&#8217;scope, and some other odds and ends. I picked up a few things I needed, including some solder wick, a replacement rubber band for my wrist rocket antenna launching sling shot and a backup mic for the podcast (just like the one you guys are so find of).<\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1010239.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1010239.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579276989129887538\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I met many podcast listeners. Bert, WF7I, and Mark, KJ7IEA, from the University of Virginia (the guys with the rhombic) were there and it was great to meet them. N3UMW, the designer of the SolderSmoke logo, was there at my sales table, but I didn&#8217;t realize until after the hamfest that he&#8217;d been there &#8211; -I would have liked to have talked to him! Oh well, more &#8216;fests in the DC area are coming up, and I still have some junk to sell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SolderSmoke 131 should be out tomorrow. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert, WF7I, at Winterfest I had a great time at the Vienna Wireless Winterfest. The weather was very nice, so I moved my sales operation out to the tailgate area. I managed to sell the Heathkit Twoer that I was trying to get rid of (the receiver is a REGEN). Also sold a bunch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/hamfest-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hamfest Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}