The last few days have been busy ones, but we still had time to relax and enjoy our surroundings. The campground filled up on Wednesday and Thursday with all types of RV's, many tent campers, and most of the cabins were occupied also. The population was mostly amateur radio operators. We continued greeting old friends and meeting new ones.
Hamvention began on Friday and ended yesterday afternoon. The Hara Arena complex includes a large arena, several large exhibit buildings (all connected to the arean) which were filled with vendors offering their products as well as forum offerings all day, each day. The large parking area was mostly dedicated to a flea market where hundreds of individuals as well as more vendors offered their products and information. We spent a few hours each day walking around, again seeing many familiar faces. Our purchases included new cable to hook up to campground cable TV systems, some USB connectors and a new exterior antenna tuner for our Eagle One antenna.
Here's a link to the large Hamvention program: http://hamvention.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Hamvention-Program-2015.pdf
Yesterday, the final event, held in the arena, was an awards presentation, followed by drawings for all of the unclaimed door prizes. There were also 20 ham-radio-related products given away as main prizes with values from $600 to over $13,000. You did not have to be present to win the 20 main prizes. The total value of prizes exceeded $50,000.
The weather has warmed up here, but there is a nice breeze most of the time, and a few showers around, too. But overall, the weather was much better than in the past.
Today, we'll be leaving the Dayton KOA for the 155 mile trip to Goshen, IN where we'll attend the American Coach 25th Anniversary Rally.
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