Announcing the
July 18th,
19th, and 20th, 2008
BE SURE TO SEE THE WILLIAMS QUICK TOUR AND MAPS LINKS AT THE END
OF THIS PAGE
QRP gathering
time is coming very quickly now, so finalize your plans now to get out here to
the cool mountains of Northern Arizona July 18 through July 20! You’ll find us at our flea market space on Friday,
July 18. Things are finally getting
lined up for the hamfest at Williams this year. So, here's what's going on subject to some
refinements as we get a bit closer to the real deal.
We plan to have some kits and ScQRPion shirts available at our flea market space and at
the programs.
We will abandon the flea market space on
Saturday July 19th to go to the programs.
The programs will be located at the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel (Fray
Marcos) located nearby at the Grand Canyon Railway Station. The main hamfest
area and flea market is only a short distance from the hotel. Don’t hold me to it, but if the hotel has
wireless internet access this year and we can find a good streaming video site,
we might be able to go live…
We have several outstanding presentations on Saturday, July 19th. Here’s the tentative schedule subject to last minute adjustments in time and content.
7:00ish Early morning rolls, coffee, cokes (
08:00 – 09:00 Paul Playford Design and construction of the antennas for
the last Clipperton Dxpedition
09:30 – 10:30 Dale Martin (KG5U) QRP Contesting
11:00 – 12:00 Thomas Kuehl
(AC7A) Circuit Simulation
1:00 – 2:00 Doug Hendricks (KI6DS) The Pack Friendly Radio (PFR-3)! It’s beginnings at Williams 2007!
Snacks and drinks refreshed
2:30 – 3:30 Dr.
Bob Armstrong (N7XJ) PFR-3 to the Field!
Picnic at
We have lined up the Santa Fe Room at the
Grand Canyon Railway Hotel again this year for our programs. For those that didn't make last year to see
this meeting room, it is a palace and a real bargain! The hotel staff was topnotch and went out of
their way to help us out. No DIRT, no
wind, no bugs, no heat, no rain! Great
place to relax. We will be providing danish rolls (generic term - eats), cookies, and soft
drinks throughout the day. Our treat. We will have a drawing at the end of EACH talk for an
attendance prize. Drawings are
free.
We have also reserved the group campground, KSG-3
at Kaibab Lake just northeast of Williams.
This is not our usual really nice area.
It is much smaller. Map links are
at the end of this page. Covered ramada with only a single table,
firepits, water, potties, and electricity. Limit 6 (ish)
vehicles (up to 30') and 35 camper people.
Tent and camper space is included in this area. We will need folks to bring portable tables
and chairs this year.
We will have our traditional picnic supper at
the campground Saturday night. Bring
your own meat to cook. Everything else
will be provided. Somehow. Lots of door prizes. We could also use a cookie to manage the
chuck wagon.
Nearly forgot the usual Friday night no-host
dinner gathering at some restaurant. Steak house last year.
We'll be hanging around the flea market all day Friday. I plan to get there a little after daylight
Friday morning to set up.
Sponsors! We love ‘em and
have some great ones! In addition to the
prizes listed above we have a great line up of attendance prizes to be given
away at the Saturday night "bring your own meat" barbeque held at the
Hendricks QRP Kits: PFR-3, BITX20A, MMR40, DC40A,
Capacitor Kits, and some not quite sure yets, but you
can bet they’ll be good ones.
Buddipole Portable Antenna System
EZNEC Antenna
Modeling Software by W7EL
W5JH Radio
Products Black Widow Paddle Kits
Jackite 31 foot
telescoping fiberglass antenna poles
As you can see we have a great
lineup of prizes. However, you must
attend to have a chance at winning one of these.
It would be difficult for us to offer such
great prizes without the support of sponsors.
Hendricks QRP Kits has provided an absolutely
unbelievable array of kits. Budd and
Chris at Buddipole
offered a very generous discount for a Buddipole portable
antenna system. W7EL donated a copy of
his great antenna software - EZNEC. Without
sponsors like these, we would not be able to give away all these great
prizes. The
ScQRPions ask that you please, please keep these sponsors
in mind the next time you make a radio related purchase. Click on the name of the group to go directly
to their websites.
General
hamfest talk-in frequency is
146.78 (-) (PL 91.5). Normal ScQRPion monitoring
frequency is 147.3 simplex, but there is a nearby repeater on that
frequency. We will try to monitor the
general repeater frequency and 147.3 simplex. Campground talk-in
will be 146.78 and 449.75. Click
here to see the Arizona
State ARRL Convention website for the main convention
information.
The following link is for
the campground website: KSG-3
site Kaibab Lake Click on KSG-3 for
campground features once you are on the
That's
all I can think of for the time being.
Things will likely change some, but hopefully not too much. Watch for changes on the QRP lists and the
website. Major changes will be posted to
the usual lists. We’ll be looking forward to
seeing all of you in Williams!
73
john k5js
Email to:
jwsteven at concentric dot net
CAMPGROUND RELATED MAPS AND LINKS