Hi Matt,
I share your concern about the efficacy of a
Listening Lounge at this years' SWL Fest. It's
been one of my favorite features of the
conference. For decades, the SWL Fest was held at
the Best Western Hotel in Kulpsville (Landsdale
exit of 476-N) where our listening lounge was in
a 2nd floor conference room with a large window that couldn't be opened.
Hotel management got wise to folks who made a
hole in their unopenable hole room window screen
to drop a longwire antenna out of it. Stiff fines
were levied upon guests who left a hole in their
window screen. The management even posted a sign
at the front desk during 'Fests warning us that
leaving a hole in our window screen wound earn us
a stiff fine. Ah, memories...
When the 'Fest was moved to the Hilton DoubleTree
Suites in Plymouth Meeting for financial reasons
(its new management decided to start
price-gouging us, despite our bringing them lots
of business every year) I noticed the spacious
top-floor Presidential Suite was being renovated
and had an accessible balcony--just below the
roof. And I found a way to access the roof and
found antenna-mounting options and a way to drop
feedlines to the balcony. A perfect venue for our
future Listening Lounge needs!
So I suggested to Rich and John that they look
into renting the Presidential Suite as a
listening lounge for future 'fests. To their
credit, they did that and made it a combination
Listening Lounge and Hospitality Suite, which was
a wonderful success. Volunteers set it up with
tables and refreshments every year, antennas were
erected on the balcony and rooftop, and people
generously brought and set up their impressive
receivers--some of which many of us only dreamed
of having access to. I will miss that dearly.
I'm going to drive up to the Holiday Inn Express
& Suites in Fort Washington and do some covert
reconnaissance to explore potential options for a
Listening Lounge there, and will report them
here. With luck, we'll have at least one usable option.
To quote veteran SWL'er Mick Jagger, "You can't
always get what you want. But if you try
sometimes,well, you might just find, You get what
you need!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8
-Ed Cummings
At 02:20 PM 4/6/2024, Matt Blaze wrote:
Also, will there be a listening lounge? It
doesn't appear the hotel has any balconies or obvious places for antennas.
On Apr 6, 2024, at 13:52, Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote:
Sometime in the next week or two, Ill go ahead
and create the zoom meeting and that can
generate calendar entries. Probably also
create an ics file for folks that dont speak Google.
RC
On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 11:54â¯AM Risto
Kotalampi <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Unfortunately I won't be making in-person but
will attend through Zoom as usual.
For those who use Google Calendar and wants to
see these events integrated into your calendar:
you can subscribe to the public calendar with known program here:
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=OTJmZWE3ZmQ4NTQxYzI1N2YwNWIxYTg3OTA5MDVkNmFlMTViZGY5Y2NkYjlmYzYxZjcwYWM0OGU2NjYxNzRlM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t>https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=OTJmZWE3ZmQ4NTQxYzI1N2YwNWIxYTg3OTA5MDVkNmFlMTViZGY5Y2NkYjlmYzYxZjcwYWM0OGU2NjYxNzRlM0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t
73!
Risto
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:51 PM Richard Cuff
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Registration for the 2024 "Winter SWL Fest" is now available!
The Fest will be a combination in-person and
Zoom event, and will be held at the Holiday Inn
Express & Suites in Fort Washington,
Pennsylvania - just north of Philadelphia. We
have a block of rooms set aside for the Fest at
a special rate; this block will only be
available until April 18th, 2024. After that
date our special rate may no longer be
available, and the hotel itself may sell out.
In-person registration is limited to 65
participants, so register early if you don't
want to get shut out; there is no limit to the number of Zoom participants.
Start your process at the Winter SWL Fest website:
<http://www.swlfest.com/>http://www.swlfest.com
You can find out more information there, and
access the group reservation link for the hotel
and also register for either the in-person or the Zoom event.
We apologize if you're seeing this announcement
in multiple places; we wanted to get the news
out there as quickly as possible since we have tight deadlines this year.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Richard Cuff and John Figliozzi, co-Festmeisters
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