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Hamvention 2024
Special Event Station, W8BI

The philosophy guiding the Hamvention SES is not to fill a logbook, contest style. Rather, we the booth operators are trying to offer the mic to HamVention attendees. We will try to make contacts in slow periods, but primarily we are helping HamVention attendees get acquainted with the equipment we have set up.

If you are planning to attend Hamvention this year, you are cordially invited to stop by the SES booth, look over the interesting equipment that we have installed, and contact friends at home or someone new. Because we depend on equipment loaned to us by vendors at Hamvention, the equipment that we use can vary from year to year.

If you can’t make it to Hamvention this year, answer one of our calls and get into our logbook. We are not going to promise to use a certain band or frequency, but in the past, we have favored 20 and 40 meters.

I am really looking forward to meeting you either in person at the Special Event Station Booth, or in an over the air QSO.

Tim McElfresh AA8TI
Chair Special Event Station

Special Event Station Information

The following suppliers are supporting the Special Event Station

 

ICOM America
BEGALI KEYS AND PADDLES
Ten-Tec
Tune-A-Tenna
MFJ Enterprises Inc. MFJ

 

 

Radio Sport Headsets

Work the world as W8BI from the Special Event Station!

The station is located in the Tesla Building E2 in spaces 2706 and 2707 will be operating during normal Hamvention hours.

The station will have paddles for CW.

Tim McElfresh AA8TI

Chair, Special Event Station

Jim Caudil, AF8JC

 Assistant Chair, Special Event Station

In Memorium:

Jim Tiderman N8IDS

Advisor, Special Event Station

Information

The best way to contact us is email:
specialeventstation@hamvention.org

For QSLs and certificates, please send a self addressed and stamped envelope to:

Dayton Amateur Radio Association
ATTN: Hamvention Special Event Station
PO Box 44
Dayton, Ohio  45401-0044