I'd be interested to kow how the weather was for Hamvention this year. I definitely enjoyed reading the "Chester's Almanac" though!
Hi Don - long time no see! 73s - Brian AF4K On 16 May 2004 at 22:47, Donald Chester wrote: > > I was unable to make it this year, due to time factor. Wonder how the > AM forum went? I recall last year attendance was down. Was it even > lower this year? > > It used to never get rained out, back when they held it the 3rd > weekend in April. Then someone got the brilliant idea of moving it to > the 4th weekend in April, and it rained practically every year. So > they moved it to May to escape the rain and cold, and although there > have been a couple of rain-free events, weather still seems to be a > problem. > > Apparently, the 3rd weekend in April by some quirk of nature turns out > to usually be dry in that little corner of the world. After they > moved it to the 4th weekend, I used to ask locals what the weather was > like the week before, and inevitabley they would respond that the > weather was fine then; that would have been a good weekend to have had > the hamfest. Of course that third weekend would sometimes be cold, > and I have seen snow, but the fleamarket rarely shut down. I recall > one year in their brochure they mentioned that in 22 years the hamfest > had been rained out only twice. I suspect that rain-free weekend in > April is one factor in Dayton becoming such a ham radio mecca. Too > bad someone had to mess with the date. > > -k4kyv > > _________________________________________________________________ Best > Restaurant Giveaway Ever! Vote for your favorites for a chance to win > $1 million! http://local.msn.com/special/giveaway.asp > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
