{"id":1995,"date":"2022-02-16T06:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2022-02-16T06:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:18:36","slug":"scenes-from-hamcation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/2022\/02\/scenes-from-hamcation\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Hamcation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2022 Orlando Hamcation is behind us now. The weather was great (Friday and Saturday, not so much on Sunday), the swaps were plentiful and the forums were informative. Many of our members made the trek, and if you didn’t, here’s just a sample of what you missed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preparing to storm the gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Do we hit the main building first or drop our ticket in the prize barrel?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Prize barrel it is (in the north building)!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ARRL booth was popular, as always<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL WCF Section Manager Mike Douglas, W4MDD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rick the Sign Man, NV5A was already busy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If you’re on DMR, you need to know about F-DARN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR getting his picture taken with PIO Jimmy Russ, AB4KA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our own Dan Gagnon, NZ1P working his magic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Auxcomm forum Friday morning was popular<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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North building swap area picking up steam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The food court was busy early!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL WCF Emergency Coordinator Christine Duez, K4KJN spoke at the ARES forum (and did an excellent job)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The East Coast Reflector discussion forum was very popular on Saturday…something else that DMR aficionados should check out if they haven’t already<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL Southeast Division Director Mickey Baker, N4MB moderated the ARRL Membership Forum on Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA speaking at the membership forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR at the membership forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kudos to the Orlando Amateur Radio Club for once again putting on a heck of a show! See you next year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2022 Orlando Hamcation is behind us now. The weather was great (Friday and Saturday, not so much on Sunday), the swaps were plentiful and the forums were informative. Many of our members made the trek, and if you didn’t, here’s just a sample of what you missed: Kudos to the Orlando Amateur Radio Club […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakelandarc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}