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John and Rich
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• Thursday - travelers arrive - hospitality room opens (pm).
• Friday - registration (am) - forums - exhibits - swap meet (pm).
• Saturday - forums - exhibits - silent auction - luncheon - banquet
- raffle.
• Sunday - travelers depart.
2011 Winter SWL Fest Forums and Activities Schedule
All times EST.
The following schedule is the 2011 calendar of events. (Subject to
change.)
Friday, March 4th
• Registration Table Open
0815-1030 Fri.
• Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
• Announcements and Directions
0850-0900 Fri.
• Forums (see below) 0900-1130 Fri.
• Lunch on your own
1130-1330 Fri.
• Hospitality Room open
1145-1330 Fri.
• Registration Table Open
1300-1400 Fri.
• Announcements and Directions
1320-1330 Fri.
• Forums (see below) 1330-1730 Fri.
• Dinner on your own 1730-2030 Fri.
• Hospitality Room reopens
1730-? Fri.
• Swap Meet in the Exhibit Room
Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
Hospitality Room Open
1930 Fri.
• The Shortwave Shindig ...will reconvene Friday night at 2030.
Saturday, March 5th
• Registration Table Open
0800-0930 Sat.
• Exhibit Area Open
Radio HF Sales, Demos, Club Tables
• Announcements and Directions
0820-0830 Sat.
• Forums (see below) 0830-1200 Sat.
• Silent Auction (Rooms 153 and 155)
0930-1600 Sat.
• Luncheon
1200-1245 Sat.
• General After Lunch Discussion
including In Memorium, Sheldon Harvey leads a reflection on those who
departed from our midst over the past year; and Tom Witherspoon
informs us on the activities of Ears to Our World.
Those not registered for the luncheon are cordially invited back at
1245 to take part in the discussions!
1245-1330 Sat.
• Forums (see below) 1330-1830 Sat.
• Silent Auction Ends!
Collect your treasures and pays your monies. 1615 Sat.
• Hospitality Room open
1830-? Sat.
• Cash Bar
1900-1945 Sat.
• Fest Banquet
Those not registered for the banquet are cordially invited back at
around
2030 to hear the speakers and participate in the raffle which follows!
1945-2115 (approx.) Sat.
• The Grande Raffle
approx. 2115-? Sat.
• Hospitality Room reopens
after raffle Sat.
2011 Fest Forums (Final as of 2/14/11)
(Still subject to change, but not as much. All forums one hour except
Shortwave Shindig and the Surprise Event.)
Friday 4 March
1. 09.00 - Stories from Behind the Counter – Rob De Santos. Rob
shares some humorous and instructional stories from his recent
experience as a salesman for a well-known retailer in shortwave and
amateur radio. The viewfrom the "other side" of the sales desk is full
of the unusual and even bizarre. The names have been changed to
protect the guilty.
2. 10.30 - QSLing Tristan Without Hearing It – Dan Robinson. Our
intrepid VOA correspondent discusses the art of QSL collecting—only
it’s via eBay with a look at methods, key sellers, and a lot of
displays of some really nice stuff.
3. 13.30 - What I Did On My St. Helena Vacation – Joe Buch. Joe
starts our vicarious tour in Capetown, S.A. sailing to St. Helena on
the Queen Mary 2. We’ll see the RSH dockside broadcast team, remote
studio bus, scenes of Jamestown and the island, and an audio clip of a
7 minute interview about how the RSH SW broadcast resulted in at least
two tourists visiting their lovely island. Ends with a pretty view of
the island in the setting sunlight as we sail for Rio. A special guest
may even stop in via Skype.
4. 15.00 - Scanning Then, Scanning Now... Scanning Forevermore? - Tom
Swisher. What was, what is, and what may be. Where was scanning, where
is it now and where is it going? The Scum will look at the current
state of the art and where we may be going over the next 10 or 20
years. Back by popular demand. (Well, at least Tom is.)
5. 16.30 - The Wiki as a Hobby Research Tool – Mike Agner. What a
wiki is, how you can use it for education, web publishing targeted to
your interests, and touring the wiki at RadioReference - one of the
largest hobby wikis in the world with well over 5000 articles. This
wiki encompasses topics from MW, HF, amateur radio, scanners, TV/FM,
satellites, equipment, antennas as well as hearing, and perhaps
talking to the astronauts on the International Space Station. This
forum is for HF, amateurs, scannists and anyone else interested in
utilizing a central resource for these and other radio-related
interests.
6. 20.30 - The Shortwave Shindig - David Goren and Friends. Bring
your favorite tuning oil and relax to the soothing sounds of the
shortwave spectrum from the Shortwaveology Archive with lively
quizzes, livelier performances, and special presentations.
Saturday 5 March
7. 09.00 - All About Continuous Wave – Skip Arey. Start with the
Morse roots and work all the way up through modern WSPR techniques.
The shortwave angle includes using worldwide CW beacons to discover
propagation paths for all forms of HF.
8. 10.30 - Make Your Own Show – Greg Majewski. …Shows us how to
produce a program using readily available computer tools, and
featuring a show he produced and got to air on WBCQ before the
Winterfest.
9. 13.30 - The Year in Pirate Radio - George Zeller . Hundreds of
unlicensed broadcasters pepper the shortwave bands (and other
frequencies) every year. Some have even been known to pepper the
airwaves of Kulpsville in the past. This year they might use more
power to reach Plymouth Meeting. Zeller and friends hold our
traditional discussion of what happened among the pirates this year.
Unlike some other shortwave broadcasters, pirates are just as active
on shortwave as they ever were. Why? We will ponder this issue, as we
also discuss the brand new North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
inaugural class of inductees. Reports go to P.O. Box 1, Belfast, NY
14895.
10. 15.00 – The Prometheus Radio Project - Maggie Avener. With its
roots in pirate radio, The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit
organization founded by a small group of radio activists in 1998.
Prometheus builds, supports, and advocates for community radio stations
—effectively working for democratization of the airwaves. And it’s
just had its biggest success to date.
11. 16.30 - Special Premiere Film Screening with Q&A! - Details TBA.
We bet this has gotten your attention. It’s even won a major film
award, so you won’t want to miss it.
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