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WEEK 7-SPECIAL EDITION-OF 2008-OUR 28TH YEAR 

 

ORLANDO

HAMCATION 2008

 

 

ORLANDO 2008 IS NOW IN THE RECORD BOOKS....IT'S ABOUT 7AM SUNDAY THE 17th AS WE COMPOSE THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF "APPLE SLICES" AND HARD TO BELIEVE TEAM 22 CREW ONE WEEK AGO RIGHT NOW WAS JUST MEETING FOR THE FINAL BREAKFAST...

 

SO LETS RELIVE HISTORY IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF "SLICES"...FOR ALL OF YOU WHO DID NOT MAKE IT AND FOR ALL OF YOU THAT DID:

 

THE ADVENTURE BEGAN HERE AT GATE 2 IN THE JET BLUE TERMINAL AT KENNEDY AIRPORT...WE GOT TO THE AIRPORT AT 4:30AM WHICH WAS PERFECT AS BY THE TIME YOU GET CHECKED IN AND THRU SECURITY WE ARRIVED AT GATE 2 AROUND 5:45 AM JUST AS BOARDING WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN FOR OUR 6:10 DEPARTURE.

 

THE FLIGHT WAS TOTALLY ON TIME AND PERFECT.....

.....AND BY THE TIME WE GOT OVER ORLANDO THE SUN WAS OUT AND YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS NO SNOW ON THAT GROUND!!!!!

 

OFF THE PLANE IN ORLANDO...GOT THE BAGS...IN FACT ONE OF OURS WAS THE FIRST TO COME OUT ON THE CAROUSEL...TOOK THE SHUTTLE BUS TO THRIFTY RENT A CAR...THEY EVEN HAD THE CAR WITH THE IGNITION ON THE AC RUNNING AND OFF WE WENT...FIRST STOP...W COLONIAL DR AND THE BEST WESTERN...THEY OF COURSE WERE EXPECTING US ALSO...GOT CHECKED IN...SET UP THE COMPUTER IN THE ROOM THEN BACK TO THE THRIFYMOBILE AND ON TO THE HAMFEST TO SET UP THE THE BOOTH...

WHAT WE SAW UPON ARRIVAL IS WHAT YOU SEE ABOVE...UNLESS YOU ARE A VENDOR YOU NEVER GET TO SEE THIS PART OF A HAMFEST...IT IS A REALLY WEIRD SIGHT WITHOUT THE CROWDS...KIND OF LIKE IMAGINE CONEY ISLAND BUT WITHOUT THE PEOPLE...

 

BUT...A TEACHERS WORK IS NEVER DONE...SO HERE WE ARE ON THURSDAY THE 7TH ABOVE YOU SEE THE BEFORE BUT NOW TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AFTER....

 

NOT BAD HUH?  TAKES ABOUT 2 HOURS TO GET IT ALL UNPACKED AND AND SET UP THE WAY YOU SEE IT ABOVE....   BY THE TIME THE BOOTH WAS DONE IT WAS ABOUT 4PM AND JUST  PERFECT TIMING TO RETURN TO THE BEST WEST AND AWAIT THE ARRIVAL OF TEAM MEMBERS.   SURE ENOUGH UPON RETURNING THERE WAS A WELCOMING COMMITTEE IN PLACE....

...AND THEREIN IS THE BEAUTY OF GOING BACK TO THE SAME PLACE YEAR AFTER YEAR....THE PICTURE ABOVE COULD OF BEEN TAKEN IN 2004 OR 5 OR 6 OR 7....THE PLACE HAS NOT CHANGED A BIT .. EVEN THE LADY TO THE RIGHT...SHANDY...HAS BEEN THERE SINCE WE STARTED AND ALWAYS SAYS...."OH..HERE COME THE HAMS"...ASIDE FROM SHANDY ON THE RIGHT...THATS: WALTER-WA4LT & BILL-KM4P THE SCHOOL TEACHER YOU HEAR ON NET FROM HIS EDUCOM CLASSROOM IN FL EACH MORNING AND THE ONE AND ONLY "WITCHONE" ..THE DX CHECK IN..MIKE-W2HLD ALL THE WAY FROM THE FAIRWAYS OF FAIRVIEW TEXAS.

 

A LITTLE WHILE AFTER THE ABOVE WAS TAKEN WE MOVED OUTSIDE TO THE POOL AREA AS MARK-KD5RXT ARRIVED WITH HIS BRAND NEW UNUSED UNTIL RIGHT THEN BIRTHDAY PRESENT..AN FT-817 AND HIS WELL USED BUDDY-POLE ANTENNA SYSTEM...

 

MARK WENT TO WORK SETTING UP THE BUDDY-POLE PLUGGED IN THE FT-817 AND BY 6PM ish WE WERE ALL ON 7.238 WORKING THE ROTTEN APPLES...NOTABLY "THE REAL WR2L"-BILL AND MIKEEE-WD4DUG- THE MAGICIAN THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU AND THE WORLD TO SEE "APPLE SLICES"-WERE SUPER STRONG LOUD AND CLEAR THAT NIGHT....

THE POLE YOU SEE IN THE FOREGROUND IS THE BUDDY POLE...IT ALL SCREWS TOGETHER AND THATS WHAT YOU GET HOWEVER THE ACTUAL BAG THAT HE TRANSPORTS ALL THAT IN IS NO MORE THAN MAYBE 3 FEET OR SO LONG AND HE CARRIES THE WHOLE DEAL ON THE PLANE WITH HIM...AFTER THIS DEMO IT GIVES YOU A WHOLE NEW OUTLOOK ON QRP!

 

WELL YOU KNOW HOW TEACHERS ARE...THEY CANT STAY UP VERY LATE ON SCHOOL NIGHTS...

SO BEFORE 2/5 OF THE TEAM HAVE TO GO NITE NITE IT WAS OFF TO A SUPER GREAT PLACE CALLED "BARNY'S" JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE POOL FOR DINNER AND UP EARLY FRIDAY MORNING FOR THE HAMFEST......

 

ON ARRIVAL FRIDAY THE 8th I WENT DIRECTLY TO THE BOOTH BUT WALTER AND MIKE WENT TO SEE AN OL PAL:

WHEN YOU WONDER HOW WALTER-WA4LT GETS THE GREAT AUDIO HE HAS AND MIKEEE TOO THE ANSWER IS THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE...THATS JULIUS-W2IHY  THE FELLOW THAT OWNS THE COMPANY THAT MAKES THOSE MAGIC BOXES THAT GO IN YOUR MIC LINE AND MAKE ANY RADIO SOUND PERFECT...AND YES THEY BOUGHT MORE "MAGIC" FROM HIM THIS YEAR.

 

ONE THING ABOUT HAMFESTS...I GET TO GO BUT I DONT GET TO SEE MUCH...EXCEPT...AT PLACES LIKE ORLANDO WHERE WE HAVE LOTS OF HELP SO I DID GET TO WALK OUTSIDE...BUT...AFTER SEEING THIS VERY UNIQUE SIGN DOWN BY THE LAKE...WE WENT DIRECTLY BACK TO WORKING THE BOOTH...

SEEN A LOT OF SIGNS AT HAMFESTS BUT NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER SEEN THAT ONE.....

 

ARRIVING BACK AT THE BOOTH..RAPIDLY..THE TEAM HAD INCREASED BY TWO...WALTER AND MIKEEE YOU KNOW...BUT IN THE MIDDLE THATS BURT-W4SNT AND BARRY-KF4WGR..

 

FROM THEN ON IT WAS NON-STOP ACTION...LOTS OF FOLKS WE MET AND SOME WE NEVER MET AND SOME WE NEVER HAD ANY CLUE WE WOULD MEET THIS TIME BUT...ALWAY EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED...

DIRECT FROM MICHIGONIA...THATS N 8 Foxy Yankee  N8FY KIM....SEE HER IN "APPLE SLICES" 5...WE NEVER EVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE SEEING HER AGAIN IN 7 BUT THERE SHE WAS...WOW WHAT A GREAT SUPRISE...AND A NEW ONE TO AD TO THE LIST OF HAMMYS WE HAVE MET....

 

THEN ALONG CAME LOU-W4EYE

LOU HAS BEEN IN ICOM DAY FOREVER AND WILL BE IN THIS YEAR AGAIN...THANK YOU LOU AND THANKS FOR STOPPING...

 

NO HIGHWAY...TOM-N0HWY MADE IT TO THE TABLE ON FRIDAY ALSO...

 

TOM HAS BEEN WITH THE "22 CREW" FOR MANY YEARS AND IT SURE WAS GREAT TO SEE HIM AGAIN...TOM CAME ALL THE WAY FROM MINNESOTA...I DON'T THINK HE MISSED THE WX BACK HOME!

 

NOW MINNESOTA IS COLD BUT WHATS COLDER?...WHO SAID CANADA?..AND ALL THE WAY FROM CANADIA..OUR VERY OWN "TEAM 22 CREW" MEMBER..."Green  Funny  Money"  VE3GFM-GRANT

TRUST US..YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TRUE COMEDY UNTIL YOU COMBINE VE3GFM & W4SNT....THESE TWO SPONTANEOUSLY CREATED A COMEDIC ROUTINE THAT EASILY COULD GO ON LATE NITE TV AND BLOW AWAY ANYONE ELSE'S RATINGS...HILARIOUS DOES NOT COME CLOSE!

 

BY THIS TIME YOU COULD STICK A FORK IN FRIDAY AS THAT HAMFEST WAS DONE FOR THE DAY....TIME TO COVER THE TABLE AND HEAD BACK TO THE BEST WEST AND THE POOL SIDE GATHERING

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE POOL AND "TEAM 22 CREW" HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED..

 

TO BETTER GIVE YOU A GLIMPSE OF FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE POOL WE MADE YOU THIS MOVIE:

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AFTER CONGREGATING AT THE POOL IT WAS OFF TO THE OFFICIAL RESTAURANT OF "TEAM 22 CREW" ORLANDO...HOULIHANS....AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE MEAN ABOUT SNT & GFM....

AND IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY YOU EVEN SEE A REAL LIVE GIRL...CAN YOU SEE HER?

THERE SHE IS...THATS DAWN....OH THE GUY...SORRY WE DINT SEE HIM...THATS BARRY-KF4WGR...AND DAWN IS MRS. WGR..TRULY A   G R E A T   ADDITION TO "TEAM 22 CREW"!

 

TIME REALLY DOES FLY WHEN YOU ARE HAVING FUN....ALL GOOD THINGS MUST END AND THATS WHAT HAPPEND TO FRIDAY NIGHT BUT HEY SATURDAY IS JUST MINUTES AWAY....

 

BACK TO THE BOOTH BRIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY MORNING okay okay but it was early!....FIRST TO JOIN US .. NONE OTHER THAN THE #1 CHECK IN DAILY ON THE CLASSROOM NET...CAL-W9JAN

CAL GOES BACK TO THE VERY EARLY DAYS OF THE CREW...HE IS AN HONOR ROLL MEMBER-IC DAY PLAYER-#1 ON THE NET-ORLANDO "TEAM 22 CREW" MEMBER...AND ALL AROUND TRULY GREAT GUY...

 

CAL GOT HIS CHAIR WITH THE REST OF THE TEAM AND NEXT TO JOIN US WAS THE ROTTENEST APPLE OF THEM ALL ...THE LEADER...DON-WY5I...

FROM 6AM TO 7 EVERY MORNING ON 7.238 THE WARM UP GROUP TO THE "CLASSROOM NET" IS THE ROTTEN APPLES AND DON..ABOVE..IS THE ONE YOU HEAR LEADING THE PARADE...

 

JUST AS DON GOT BEHIND THE BOOTH...LOOK WHO CAME IN NEXT...

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