The AM Forum

For those of you attending Hamvention this year the forum schedule has been posted:

http://hamvention.org/forums.php (http://hamvention.org/forums.php)

http://hamvention.org/files/2011ForumSched.pdf (http://hamvention.org/files/2011ForumSched.pdf)


Hamvention 2010 video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/joehusker#p/u/0/ykbH_fczv8A (http://www.youtube.com/user/joehusker#p/u/0/ykbH_fczv8A)

No AM Forum ? (again)

Wish that YouTube slide show had some video in it.  Then again, I've got some sitting around I never did anything with, hmm...

Someone young and ambitious needs to re-organise an AM forum for future years.  Dale did it for many years and I think he finally got burnt out.  I used to help him with it until I had to miss 3 or 4 years in a row due to conflicts with work and one year with my daughter's graduation, and I think Dale also missed a year due to a graduation.  The first year there was no AM forum (two years ago) was due to the hamfest committee's alleged screw-up... or else, someone in charge didn't want an AM forum and fabricated an excuse.

At one point, there were so many forums, some of them had to held off-site. Today, there's only 4 forum rooms used at Hamvention (Room 1/4, 2, 3, and 5). I didn't check to see if all the rooms and time slots were already filled. Contesters and DXers already have most of their forum-type presentations done downtown at the Crowne Plaza. They start on Wednesday before Hamvention.

Some enterprising ham(s) could coordinate a Friday or Saturday afternoon AM meet at some unused flea market spaces (maybe beyond the Gate D aisle), for an hour or so, for some AM bonding, group pictures, huddling, tall tales, etc. Might require the use of a megaphone or bull horn to keep the group gathered together. If presentations, they don't have to be elaborate; maybe something as simple as "look what I found at Hamvention this year" type of stuff.