-=> Daryl Stout wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 DS>   There were a bunch of dealers and flea market folks at Huntsville.
 DS> One definitely did a lot of walking.

Agreed! Whew. :-) Was well worth it though! I got a good look at
a couple of J antennas that people were selling. I didn't go 
with the intention of stealing their design (I mean the plans
are available on the Internet after all) but I wanted to see
them up close and potentially purchase one. After seeing them
and touching one, I think I could build one... They were $30 there
and $40 at a little freefest we popped into yesterday outside of
Nashville (were in town to celebrate 30th wedding anniversary).

I'm wanting to get another mobile unit and a power supply to
have a duel band radio 'base station' for the winter time. I
like the idea of a J antenna in the attic. Any thoughts on
that? 

 DS>   I bought one of those neon signs from "Gifts 4 Hams", and it's
 DS> supposed to arrive on Monday. The week before at the Shreveport
 DS> hamfest, I bought several items with the "Arklatex D-Star"
 DS> logo...including a cap, a key chain deal, and a badge.

Nice!

 DS>   Sorry we didn't get a chance to hook up in Huntsville.

Same here. Turns out there were a few people from West Tennessee
that I've talked to on the local repeaters that were there
but I didn't see a single one of them either. :-)

 DS>    The only 2
 DS> forums I went to were the D-Star Forum on Saturday, and the ARRL Tour
 DS> Forum on Sunday.

We drove in Saturday morning to get to the Skywarn forum, which was
cancelled last minute. :-( We didn't hit any of the others but had
I known you were at D-Star (I should have surmised, from our previous
conversations) I would have at least met you at the door. :-)

 DS>   I did get to meet a lot of folks from D-Star there.
 DS> There's no way I could afford to go to Dayton. The only other out of
 DS> state hamfest I'll go to now is the one in Shreveport the second
 DS> weekend of August.

Yeah - not sure when the next one I go to will be. Will try to hit the
Freefest in Bartlett next year, assuming they do another. Also plan
to hit a little one in Union City next year. It was a couple of weeks
before Bartlett this year, but we were just DAYS late in getting the
Ham bug to go to that one. LOL

 DS>   Unfortunately, the long bus ride to/from there about did me in. The
 DS> seats at the hamfest, as well as at the bus stations, and on the buses
 DS> were NOT the most comfortable in the world...and both my back and my
 DS> butt are still cussing me for it. :P

Ouch. :-( Hate to hear that...

Really hope to chew the band with you sometime! My mobile rig is letting
me hear Jonesborough & Memphis repeaters. Your D-Star stuff is HF only
though, right? I have a hand me down HF rig and antenna at home, but still
need to pickup a power supply for it...


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