On Saturday, Xenia’s local paper, the Xenia Gazette ran two articles on Hamvention:
Hams impressed with new home.
Ham radio enthusiast Wendy Peitzer is no stranger to Dayton Hamvention, having attended amateur radio’s biggest event many times at the Hara complex in Dayton.Not knowing what to expect, she and her contingent arrived at the Greene County Fairgrounds — Hamvention’s new home after being at Hara for 52 years — early May 19 to beat the opening-day crowd and check out the new digs. She wasn’t disappointed.
“(It’s) much better,” she said. “I think the facilities here are nicer. I think it’s better organized. I like the perks. They bring you up (from the parking lot) on a tractor pull.”
- Keepin’ it in the family.
There’s one potential drawback to sharing a passion for amateur radio with two teenage daughters.“When the girls get on there, all these guys jump on there wanting to talk to them,” said Mobile, Ala., resident Joey McCullough of his daughters, Niki, 19, and Robyn, 16.
But the older McCullough can deal with that in exchange for the girls sharing his passion for ham radios. The three are among thousands attending 2017 Dayton Hamvention at the Greene County Fairgrounds through May 21.
I mostly agree with the sentiments in the first article. The new venue is a lot cleaner and just a more pleasant place in general. One thing that the article didn’t mention, however, was the muddy flea market. Despite assurances that the race track infield—where the flea market was located—had great drainage and wouldn’t get muddy, it turned into a mudfest after rains and all the traffic hauling stuff in and out.
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