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Title: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: K4NYW on September 02, 2023, 04:06:39 PM Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023
Great weather, Good friends, and Interesting gear. https://photos.app.goo.gl/KZYE9e7kdpXbRMnc8 Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: W3SLK on September 02, 2023, 06:35:09 PM You guys always have the neat stuff! I hope to make it there some day! Nice fest!
Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: KD1SH on September 02, 2023, 08:35:47 PM Very nice looking 'fest. Love to make that one some day. Twelve hour drive, but since we're retired now maybe some summer my wife and I will make a three or four day adventure out of it. For now, it's fun looking at the pictures.
Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on September 02, 2023, 09:32:37 PM Very nice looking 'fest. Love to make that one some day. Twelve hour drive, but since we're retired now maybe some summer my wife and I will make a three or four day adventure out of it. For now, it's fun looking at the pictures. Just Southwest of Shelby is Franklin, NC the "GEM Capital of the World"https://www.fgmm.org/ And you're surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains and you can pan for gold and gems. Lots to see and very laid-back community. https://www.franklinnc.com/franklin-nc-events-calendar.html And, East of Shelby is Charlotte, NC if you like to party, great restaurants and you can run into lots of rich people :) Over the years, I've been to Shelby hamfest twice. I found the hamfest too slow paced for my liking. Some of those vendors sit out in the grass for days. I moved a WECo. Data product line from Aurora, IL to Monterrey, Mexico for a little less then 2 years and then moved it from Monterrey to Charlotte, NC. Spent a least two to three days a month for least 9 months getting that final move so I spent a lot of time in the Charlotte area. Great area and lots to see and visit when I wasn't working. As a single guy with two other guys, we spent roughly 5 days in Franklin, NC many many years ago. Lots to see and visit and had a lot of fun. Drove down from NJ in a 1957 Ford Fairlane convertible. Spent several days panning for gems in the local streams. We didn't get rich. Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: n8fvj on September 02, 2023, 10:32:30 PM Wow! Just loaded with vintage gear.
Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: w9jsw on September 03, 2023, 08:07:26 AM Pete,
I worked a summer job at that WeCO plant in Aurora in 1974. Was on the repair line pulling failing modems off the burn in, repairing them and returning them to burn in. Great summer gig prior to my first year at U of I in Champaign. Small world. W9BHI Don also worked there around the same timeframe. John W9JSW Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: W3GMS on September 03, 2023, 11:01:30 AM Amazing Fester! Loaded with gear....
Reminds me of the old Gathersburg, MD Hamfest. Title: Re: Shelby NC hamfest photos Sept 2023 Post by: Opcom on September 03, 2023, 08:47:49 PM Lots of very interesting parts and sets! AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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