Shelby NC hamfest photos - Aug 28-30, 2025

[K4NYW]

Great weather and a good time swapping gear and talking with friends.
Lots of parts and vintage gear (I don't bother taking photos of newer stuff).
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygv2UfFbHYYsLt8D7

[W1ITT]

Thanks once again for your hamfest travelog photos.  A couple decades ago I was installing a TV station antenna down in SC and made the trip up to Shelby with a couple of the other engineers.  It's a nice friendly hamfest and their flea market seemed to offer a better grade of stuff than I see at others.
I'm thinking that next year I may burn up some frequent flyer miles and take the XYL to Huntsville hamfest as she has a niece in town and I could hit that one.  I missed it by a week on another work trip years ago and need to do a make-up .
73 de Norm W1ITT

[W3SLK]

One of these times I'm going to make a sojourn there. I guess I will have to make it an 'over-niter.'

[W3FJJ]

Thanks Nick, you always do a great job, documenting the BA's at the festers, which is what I'm mostly interested in. 73 Chuck

[K4NYW]

Thanks Nick, you always do a great job, documenting the BA's at the festers, which is what I'm mostly interested in. 73 Chuck

There was lots of new-fangled gear on display too, but my eyes and camera just ignore all that stuff..

[KD1SH]

There was lots of new-fangled gear on display too, but my eyes and camera just ignore all that stuff..

Same here, at hamfests.
Friend: "Did you see that Yaesu FTDX-101E?"
Me: "Was it anywhere near the Viking Five-Hundred, or the box of 4-1000's, or the big Thordarson modulation transformer?"

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Years ago when I was still gainfully employed I attended a customer symposium at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, located in Nashville, Tennessee for roughly 5 days. On a
Friday morning departure, I took a flight to Charlotte, NC to attend a meeting at one of our manufacturing locations. Got up real early Saturday morning and drove the rental car to the Shelby hamfest. Although there was some intermittent spitting of rain, most of the day was great. I don't recall if i bought anything (if I did it was probably some manuals that I could carry on the plane home). While there, did run into some Northeast hamfest regulars. Over all, a well attended laid-back type of hamfest. Some vendors looked like they were there for days.