2018 Major Prize Donors
updated 5/8/2018
ALFA RADIO
BELDEN WIRE
CAPITOL ELECTRONICS
DX ENGINEERING
ICOM
KENWOOD
RFINDER
STEPPIR ANTENNA SYSTEMS
UNIVERSAL RADIO
YAESU
Bill Serra
N8NRT
Chairman, Prizes
Jim Nies
WX8F
Asst. Chairman, Prizes
Information
The best way to contact us is by email:
prizes@hamvention.org
Dayton Hamvention® Prize Booth Rules
The vendors, manufacturers, and dealers who are at Hamvention® have donated prizes to be awarded by the Dayton Hamvention Prize Committee. If you win a prize, please go to the organization that donated it and thank them! Prizes are drawn from the prize drum located in the prize booth on the schedule indicated below. Ticket deposits into the prize drum will stop just prior to each drawing. All times listed below are Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDST).
Friday Hourly Drawings 10 p.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m.
Friday Bonus Prizes 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.
Student Ticket Prize Drawings 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.
Saturday Hourly Drawings 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.
Saturday Bonus Prizes 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m.
Student Ticket Prize Drawings 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m.
Sunday Hourly Drawings 10 a.m., 11 a.m.
Sunday Bonus Prizes 10 a.m.
Tickets collected by Prize booth workers along the fence line during the time a drawing is underway will be deposited in the drum after hourly and bonus prize drawings are completed. Winning ticket numbers will be posted on prize monitor displays in Buildings 1, 2 & 3.
It will take about 10 minutes for all numbers to be posted following a ticket drawing. Consult the map in the Hamvention® program for the location of Prize monitors.
2018 Prize Donors
A-G
Air Chair
AirSpy
ALFA Radio
Alpha Antenna
Amateur TV Quarterly
American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
AMSAT
Array Solutions
ARISS – Amateur Radio on International Space Station
Arrow Antenna
Begali Keys
Belden Wire
Bird Technologies
Buckmaster Publishing
Capitol Electronics
Comet Antenna Systems
CQ Communications, Inc.
DX Engineering
EasyWay Hambooks
EZ-NEC Software
Foundation for Amateur Radio – FAIRS
H-Q
Ham Radio Deluxe
ICOM
JT Communications, Inc.
KB3IFH QSL Cards
Kenwood
M2 Antenna Systems
MicroLog by WA0H
N3ZN
NCG Co.
Nuts & Volts / Servo Magazines
Palstar
R-Z
RadioWavz
RFinder
RT Systems
Satellite HQ
Scanner Master Corp.
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
SteppIR Antenna
Tuscon Amateur Packet Radio
Tarheel Antenna
The RF Connection
The Wireman
Tower Electronics
Universal Radio
WB0W Inc.
Webster Communications, Inc.
West Mountain Radio
Yaesu
Prize Donation History
Past prize donation lists
2017 Prizes
2016 Prizes
2018 Major Prize winners
| Number | Prize | Winner | Call | City | State |
| 1 | ICOM – IC-7610 | Janet Focken | KC9LBZ | Watseka | IL |
| 2 | Yaesu – FT-991A | Greg Dersarkisian | KD8SSJ | Carrol | OH |
| 3 | ICOM – IC-7300 | Ifrain Arce Robles | AA9ER | Indianapolis | IN |
| 4 | Yaesu – FT-891 | Patrick Hagen | KD8JEN | Leesburg | OH |
| 5 | SteppIR – 20m-6m Dipole w/ SDA100 Controller | Tom Venson | WA4ESI | Staunton | VA |
| 6 | Capitol Electronics – 500′ LMR400 and tools | Thomas Chill | WA8BSA | Davison | MI |
| 7 | Yaesu – FT-400XDR | Greg Sheard | WI1P | Marco Island | FL |
| 8 | Yaesu – FT-400XDR | Richard Valentine | W2REV | Highland | NJ
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| 9 | Yaesu – FT-400XDR | Tadd Torborg | KA2DEW | Raleigh | NC |
| 10 | Alfa Radio – Rotor | Forrest Reed | KA8HUZ | Lebanon | OH |
| 11 | Belden 1000 ft. 9255 Coax | Bruce Lordi | N2XP | Flanders | NJ |
| 12 | Rfinder Android DMR Radio | Robert Stanoszek | WA8AWD | Walton Hills | OH |
| 13 | SteppIR – CrankIR 80m-6m Vertical | John Teorgan | KL0QD | Phoenix | AZ |
| 14 | DX Engineering – TW5Band | Sherry Mead | Decatur | MI | |
| 15 | DX Engineering – Butternut HF-9V | Richard Hartnett | WA3RTH | Bowie | MD |
| 16 | JVC Kenwood – THD-74A | Lloyd Robinson | W8ZT | St. Albans | WV |
| 17 | JVC Kenwood – THD-74A | David Jones | N3IL | Powell | OH |
| 18 | JVC Kenwood – THD-74A | Tom Hansen | N8DGD | Grand Rapids | MI |
| 19 | JVC Kenwood – THD-74A | Bill Leaming | N4GIX | Hammond | IN |
| 20 | JVC Kenwood – THD-74A | Michael Smith | KV4R | Springfield | VA |
| 21 | Belden 500 ft. 9913 Coax | Roger Reichel | W0RPR | Madison | MN |
| 22 | Belden 500 ft. 9913 Coax | Steven Hamilton | KC9GMX | Geff | IL |