Hamvention is May 16th-18th, 2008 (IOOK starts on the 15th)

As many of you know, the IOOK has several "events" during Hamvention every year.  Photos of past events will be posted here and on Keith's photo page. 

Check out WA5KUB's live webcam starting Thursday. It will be live video/Chat and VOICE this year.     www.wa5kub.com

Here is a schedule of those events.

IOOK Hamvention Week 2008

 Thursday

    8:30 AM – WA8ZWJ and N8KXM meet WA5KUB and the

Tennessee/Arkansas gang in the flea market

to set the floors and the van storage unit

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner at Toll House Tavern

             Rt 48 in Union

    7:30 PM Trip to flea market to set up booth and dump

             stuff into the van

Friday

    6:15 AM - 7:00 AM - Breakfast at California Garden

             Shiloh Springs Rd. across from the

Salem Mall near Hara Arena

    8:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Flea Market open

    9:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Indoor Exhibits open

    6:30 PM - 9:30 PM - "26th Gathering of the Faithful"

Saturday

    6:00 AM - 6:45 AM - Breakfast at California Garden

    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Flea Market Open

    8:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Indoor Exhibits open

    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Dinner at Rob's Restaurant

         Banquet Room - 705 Arlington Road,

         Brookville  See ZWJ 4 maps

Sunday

    6:45 AM - 7:45 AM - Breakfast at California Garden

    8:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Flea Market Open

    8:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Indoor Exhibits open

    5:30 PM  Pizza Dinner at Marion's Piazza - Englewood

         Rt 40 in the K-Mart Shopping Center

For those of you planning to attend HamVention next week there are some
preparations you may wish to make prior to leaving home.

You will want to program your radios to include the following:

1)  442.850 simplex
2)  442.850 + repeater with tone of 118.8 - Union, Ohio
3)  442.925 + repeater with tone of 123.0 - Huber Heights, Ohio
4)  444.725 + repeater with tone of 123.0 - Piqua, Ohio
5)  444.000 + repeater with tone of 107.2 - Celina, Ohio (only if you are
coming in from the north)
6)  146.415 simplex

 

Dayton IOOK Repeater Information

This note is to bring you up to speed on the local 442.850 (+offset 118.8hz PL tone) repeater and surrounding area machines of interest. This machine has EchoLink node #269089 however, it may be shut down during HamVention.  Also note: Outgoing EchoLink connections are restricted.  See WA8ZWJ for more information.

As a back up for reliable communications we would like to suggest the use of Glenn, W8AK’s repeater system if you are unable to access 442.850 in a satisfactory manner.  This is a wide coverage system linking 3 repeater systems together 24/7.  You will want to program in the following frequencies and PL tones:

442.925 + (PL 123.0) – located in Huber Heights

444.725 + (PL 123.0) – located in Piqua

444.000 + (PL 107.2) – located in Celina

This system has coverage from just north of Cincinnati to just south of Paulding and from the state line to the west to east of Springfield.  If you look at your map of Ohio, you will see that this covers most of western Ohio.  Also, this system has IRLP access.