Tag: hamfest
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Sandwich Hamfest, and the answer to a question
Going to Sandwich is a brief but major upheaval in life: go to bed early, get up at midnight and drive until dawn. Shop till ya drop. Drive home. (to read about this process in detail, see last years post) Does that make it sound awful? It’s really a lot of fun. People I only…
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First hamfest of the year
It was scheduled to be in the Legion hall in Onalaska (suburb of LaCrosse), but due to inadvertent double booking it was moved to the Legion hall in Sparta at the last minute. The reason I know this is the club secretary, who was in the parking lot in Onalaska to redirect strays (such as…
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Hamfest!
It was quarter-to-one Sunday morning when I got up to go to the De Kalb Radio Club’s hamfest in Sandwich, Illinois. I barely had time to shave, dress, and make enough coffee to fill both a big reused Kwik-Trip cup and one of the larger vacuum bottles before it was time to toss my packs…