The 12th Annual GHRC Hamfest 
in Bozeman, Montana!
October 11 2008!

Learn about Amateur Radio Operations, buy gear & gadgets, get great advice, take your first ham operator test or upgrade your license, attend a seminar or lecture and have a great time with old friends and new!  
SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!

 

 

10am - 3pm Saturday, October 11, 2008
Admission $2 (includes one raffle ticket!)
Seminars:  11-2  /  VE Test Session at 2pm
Door Prizes and Dual Band Mobile Grand Prize!

 

The 2008 Hamfest Flyer! 
Click to view or right click to download (240K PDF)!

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REPORT ON THE 11TH ANNUAL BOZEMAN HAMFEST
October 13, 2007 by your webmistress

Photos from Hamfest 2007

The 2007 Hamfest was a great success!!  Thanks to all who helped, setup, cleaned up and made it happen and thanks to EVERYONE who attended!  We had an amazing number of guests and double the table vendors we were expecting.  Thanks to all the vendors who were understanding about our lack of good planning on the tables - but everyone was accommodated.  We will have a completely new way of handling tables next year, with tables being assigned before you even arrive.  

The seminars were wonderful!  K7YD gave us our annual update on all things ARRL, as well as some technical info about emergency battery backup charging (how to do it without blowing things up) and about antenna grounding (for those who needed static discharge help, like your webmistress).  KI7XF gave great a talk on DF Fox Hunting, which I was unable to attend - but I'll get more details on that soon.  KE7X gave a presentation about contesting and some of his best (and worst) DXpeditions.  Our VE Test session was successful, making three new Technician Class licensees and one upgrade to a General Class Licensee!  The raffles were all great and a complete list of who won what will be published later.  But the grand prize, a Yaesu FT8800, was won by KC7EWZ, Don of Bozeman.  Congratulations Don!

Again, thanks to everyone that made the hamfest great!  Hope to see you all again next year!  Plans for the 2008 hamfest will be posted as soon as we have them, assuming we are able to do it again!  73 de KJ7UN

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Click here for pictures from the 2002 hamfest!