Something I really enjoyed was more room to move around. Using two buildings for vendors was a master stroke. I noticed that
folks in scooters and wheelchairs were navigating much easier than in the past. Great job! Travis K5HTB ________________________________ From: BVARC <[email protected]> on behalf of John Chauvin via BVARC <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:13 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Cc: John Chauvin Subject: [BVARC] WOW! What a Hamfest. Congratulations to all who participated! We will find out in 3 or 4 days if we broke any attendance, raffle and other records. With all the doom-and-gloom WX predictions, it turned out to be GREAT WX during setup, the event itself, and teardown. The only significant rain came late Friday when the Friday activities were well completed. The volunteers were really great! As always, there were some shortages, but at other times we even had to wait a short while to assign tasks to some. The Friday activities drew more people than we expected. We certainly want to grow that sort of activity. Both halls were very busy, especially during the peak times (Saturday, 8AM and 11AM). Incredibly, Bldg C, where the vast majority of Table Sellers were located was always busier than Bldg B, which was predominantly the Commercial Vendors. There were the usual problems, but considering the expansion and other changes were really an experiment, from which we will all learn, virtually all the problems were taken care of promptly. Naturally, there are those who will gripe because the sun rose this morning, but "you can only please most of the people most of the time." A sequel is that "there are some people that you can't please any of the time;" these usually are not the volunteers. I won't list all the activities; those that attended, saw most of them. Those that didn't, well . . . you really missed a good thing. The Balloon Launch and the SAT Comms were successful. The Remote HF Station was a hit. There were many speakers including Riley Hollingsworth, US Rep. Pete Olson, Joe Eisenbert, Carl Luetzelschwab all of which were well received. There were the workshops, kit building, a very busy Food Truck, Emergency Vehicle, Boy Scouts, equipment test, demo table, BVARC equipment sales, raffle, CW Pileup contest, Fox Hunt, our best tailgate by far, - - - the list goes on-and-on, . . . all of which were successful. You get the drift. Keeping the above in mind, it appeared that virtually all the attendees were quite happy. Even the quality of the things that the Table Sellers offered seemed to be a cut above what we have seen in the past. Yes, the usual boat anchors were there, but there was a lot of apparently good older equipment. Hopefully the Equipment Test Table had some constant traffic. We hyped it several times. We will be asking for your feedback in the upcoming days. Look for another e-mail, either later today or tomorrow with details. Congratulations to everyone that made this happen! Tnx es 73 de John, K5IZO Co-Chairperson, Greater Houston Hamfest
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