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Mark Brown in for BCT joins us on the Orlando
Amateur Radio Club and hamcation line. Mark is
chairman of the Huntsville Ham Fest. He works
at one of the many high -tech government contracting
firms. in Huntsville, Alabama, and he's been
the president of the North Alabama DX club, the
Huntsville Amateur Radio Club, and is a member
of the Tennessee and Alabama contest groups.
Mark Stardow is a novice class ham back in high
school and got into the service. or got back
into the service at age 50 in full force and
he's been working hard all year long in his role
as chairman of the Huntsville Hamfest for a few
years now. So Mark, welcome back to the show.
Thank you, Neil. Good evening. Yeah, it's been
been good to talk to you here and catch up a
little bit and and we'll have to finish catching
up later because we've got this show thing to
do now right, but You know, we've had so many
canceled events. It's just one after the other
after the other and we're going on you know twice
in a row now for Dayton and and We need some
encouraging news and as soon as As soon as the
word just got out a little bit, I'd text you
and say, hey, Mark, you want to come on the show
and talk about what you found out? You're like,
you found out that quick? How do you? Good news
travels fast. Well, we need some good news. So
we want to talk about. What you and the board
of the Huntsville Hamfest found out just this
week in your meetings with the facility, which
is the Von Braun Center there in Huntsville.
Okay. Well, thanks, Neil. Um, yeah, I'll mention
that, uh, you know, putting on a large event
like this, um, just like Orlando and Dayton and
other, other large, uh, amateur radio events,
it's, it's gotta be good for the vendors. and
the visitors. We need the volunteer base. There
are so many factors and so many months of planning
that go into having a successful event. And of
course, the venue. We waited until the new year
to approach the Vaughan Braun Center. The vaccine
had rolled out late last year. And so we went
to the Vaughan Braun Center a couple of weeks
ago to sit down with them for a face -to -face
discussion. on what could we do this year to
host a safe and successful event. The von Braun
Center shared with us that they've hosted a few
large events in the South Hall. They've had some
gun and knife shows, they had an RV show, and
some others. And it has been their experience
that people have learned to social distance.
We don't need to put marks on the floor. Naturally,
we'll have to follow the state of Alabama COVID
rules and guidelines. Everyone not eating or
drinking will need to wear a mask. But I'll add
that further restrictions, reductions in those
restrictions as the summer wears on and more
people get the vaccine, we may see a better,
even more loose climate. in, uh, in August, but
we're planning and, and what we heard in, uh,
in our meeting with them is that we can, we can
do this. We can host a safe and successful event.
Well, that's, that's great news. Now I know that's
going to come at, like you said, uh, the cost
of. Masking and that kind of thing. So what what
are your plans for some adjustments? Right now
at least and then you know, maybe as time gets
closer you can back off of some of those I guess
Possibly yeah what we're planning on right now,
of course the Vaughn Braun Center will have the
the hand sanitizer stations throughout the building
They'll have social distancing uh... signage
they take care of all that stuff because it's
needed for every event that they have in the
room of course but uh... you know last year that
the rules uh... stipulated uh... one -way aisles
dedicated entry and exit doors uh... frankly
that and other hurdles uh... made hosting a quality
event uh... just impossible uh... this year at
the aisles will be twelve feet and bi -directional
uh... in the past we did uh... 10 -foot aisles
in the commercial area and 8 -foot aisles in
the flea market. So to give you a sense of, we're
going to increase the spacing of those aisles
to allow more social distancing to get folks
through. So we'll need to spread this out, Neil.
This year, and this is a big enabler, the BBC
is giving us some additional space to allow us
to spread out that area that we normally use
for move -in. we're juggling a lot of things
and we're going to use some or all of that space.
So it's not just the booths that need to spread
out, the forum rooms will have to have spacing
for that and some of the more popular ones will
be a challenge but we're looking at possibilities
of using different rooms. The Von Braun Center
is a really big venue and so we have some options.
the exam area, for example. Normally that's out
in the hallway, but to allow our entry crowd
to fit in that area, we may move the exam area
somewhere else. I'm using the word may because
we haven't finished these plans, we're working
on them, but we think we can do this and we're
working to that end. We may need to move the
stage, so we'll see about that. So, you know,
it's a big challenge for us and we're working
hard to get the planning accomplished. And we're
encouraging visitors to buy their tickets online.
We think that reducing the transaction time and
just the ease of coming up, giving your name
or call sign, and being handed some tickets,
that'll speed things up and help with the social
distancing. So we're working on a good layout
in that long hallway for the ticket sales and
for folks to sign. fill out their raffle tickets.
Well, I think you've got a good opportunity to
pull this off because, like you said, the Von
Braun Center is a big place and you're only using
a part of that space and you always do a good
job of making sure that those aisles are plenty
big and then you're going to expand that even
more. Over in the flea market area, so I you
know I really see that You know playing to your
advantage, and I think I think that's a you know
a good Way to to start off with this when we
haven't had a major show in a while. But yeah,
I was getting ready to ask you about the forums
because I know a lot of the forums are actually
held in the smaller conference rooms over in
the hotel. And, you know, there's not a whole
lot of room in some of those. So I'm glad to
know that you're already addressing that. I had
a chat with Joe Eisenberg on 40 meters after
the last hamcation forum this past Sunday. You
know, it was cold across the country and we thought,
what a great day to get on 40 meters and just
ragged you. But, you know, Joe Eisenberg does
a very popular forum. Bob Heil, Glenn Popeel,
and a few guys like that, they will fill a room.
And so we've got to figure out a way to... to
meet that need yeah and you know i'm sure you'll
have uh well you've got some time to figure that
out but uh i'm sure you'll have a good plan there
and it sounds like the uh von braun center is
willing to uh to help you through some of that
so that's very encouraging news so um You talked
a little bit about purchasing tickets ahead of
time and you know getting all that stuff done
in advance to Cut down the wait times. How can
people do that? When do those go on sale? Hotel
reservations What do people need to do if they
want to plan to attend this year? Well, I would
say first and foremost get a hotel reservation
Since we put it out since we put the news out
on the website and then ported it over to Facebook
We're hearing a lot of news that folks are making
their their hotel reservations at the embassy
and the Homewood suite since Spring Hill We don't
have the reservation codes on the website yet
for the for two of the hotels but I can say for
sure that the embassy the Reservation code, you
must use that, otherwise they'll say there's
no rooms available. That code is CES HAM, Charlie
Echo Sierra Ham. All one word, all caps, to make
a reservation at the embassy. Ticket sales, please
sit tight. We're working on the ticket portal
to get that working right, and also we're working
hard too to get the layout defined. So that we
can put it online so that the dealers can make
their, and the flea market folks can make their
reservations. Um, we're working as hard as we
can. Our goal probably about a month from, uh,
from, from now we'll have that stuff, uh, active.
We're six months out. So there's plenty of time.
Yep. Yep. Absolutely. Um, Oh, and what I was
just getting ready to say just. Got erased from
my mind. So we'll come up with that here a little
bit Okay, so so tickets and that kind of thing
you really want to encourage that ahead of time
but do that Oh, I know what it was. I can tell
you that the embassy thing the embassy suites
link works too without the code if you click
the link on the website because i actually reserved
my rooms the day before the news came out so
uh... i can tell you that that uh... reservation
code does work on the uh... on the website if
you just click on it uh... that that okay that's
good to know thank you so you know make sure
you get those early and and you know embassy
does usually sell out so If you want to be able
to just walk across on the walkway, that's something
that you need to be thinking about soon and then
we'll wait to hear about the tickets and whenever
that comes out, I'll be sure to announce it.
I'm sure others will be announcing it as well.
But please do that. That way, like you said,
they can cut down a lot of the entry time and
exchanging money and all that kind of thing.
So sounds like a good plan. All right. Well,
we're going to take a break. We'll come back
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my goodness. Do you have a golden receiver, Mark?
I have a big receiver. I guess it would be the
St. Bernard of receivers. It's the TS 990. Oh,
there you go. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Thank you,
Rick, as always. And we'll hear from him again
next week, but right now we'd like to hear from
you. at 859 -982 -7373. It's time for your call.
So if you have a question for Mark, give us a
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you won't be able to reach us because we're not
live right now. We're as they used to say, Memorex.
We're recorded. So let's see here. Let's take
a look at Twitter and the chat. We've got our
usual gang here in the chat tonight. Jill, KDAQGA
is here. Chris, A4CB. Joe, K0NEB, who we were
talking about a little bit earlier. All here
and talking about Everything for Huntsville and
Joe says I've got my plane ticket. So I think
there's a lot of a lot of anticipation here and
I think we're all ready for a ham fest so Hope
here's hoping that all that encouraging news
sticks with us Amen to that Let's see and let's
see We have a question from dr. Scott right k0md.
When are you going to upgrade to the IC 7851?
That's all your favorable comments here amcation
and I gotta open one of those at 10 k3 LRs and
it's just what an amazing radio. Oh He says great
rig and better than a golden receiver. So yeah
And we have Jeff in the comments here so welcome
Jeff and he says there is a chat so Let's see
Jeff wants to know will there be a QCWA booth
at Huntsville any idea on that yet? or is it
a little early for that? Based on the surveys,
I can only speak in general terms because our
commercial guide took care, and our flea market
guide took care of the actual survey details.
All I can say is that the vast majority of the
vendors that we've had before, including QCWA,
will be back this year. I can't say with certainty,
but like I said, I'm very confident that we will
see the regular vendors that we've seen in the
past. Okay. And I was, I was trying to remember
if QCWA was usually on the list and I believe
it is. So we'll, we'll have to, we'll have to
see. We're six months out, but, uh, quite, quite
possible. We'll put it that way. Uh, let's see.
So, uh, what activities do you have planned?
I know we're, we're still six months out. This
is way too early to really be doing this show,
but But we know that it's going to be different
and we want to prepare people for that and make
sure to get them thinking a little bit more ahead
of time, more planning, and that kind of thing.
And we're just excited, so that's why we're doing
this tonight. But do you have some things that
you can talk about? Yeah, absolutely. Of course,
that I'm friends with the Dayton guys and the
Orlando guys and we chat frequently throughout
the year and share ideas and best practices and
It's become sort of a tradition Jack Gerbs the
past Dayton chair. I'm looking forward to to
being out on the on the patio Saturday night
with Jack and Toasting with a glass of rye whiskey
and maybe a cigar to finally getting another
face -to -face meeting. We've done this in the
past and we're looking forward to doing it again.
But yeah, we're gonna have the same great stuff.
We got a great dealer show. I'm very proud of
the 52 different commercial dealers we have.
And I'm really excited this year about the flea
market. According to dealers and distributors,
radios are flying off the shelf right now. And
I just can't imagine. that people are going to
keep all those radios. So the flea market might
be a gold mine this year. There may be a lot
of rigs out there. The forums, we get great forum
presenters. I mentioned three of them, Joe, Joe
Eisenberg, KZeroNEB, Glenn Popeil does the Arduinus
stuff, and of course, Bob Heil and his Heil Sound
microphones, but lots of others. Space Weather,
Contesting Forums, The League, We'll be doing,
of course, their Southeastern Division Convention.
Dr. Monty Bateman does an unbelievable youth
lounge. He's been doing it for 12 years now.
We expanded back in 2018 to give him some more
space. We'll probably need to do that again,
even more space this year. But we're working
on another great youth lounge. I mentioned exams
earlier. Talking with our exam coordinator. He
does testing every month and he's seeing a significant
uptick in the number of people taking tests this
year due to possibly the lockdown. For whatever
reason, there are more people taking the exams
and he mentions too that the success rate is
up from years past. People are evidently studying
harder and so we're looking to make sure that
he has the space he needs for for having the
exams. We kind of sprung it on the DX Banquet
just about a week ago when we knew we were on.
So the DX Banquet, they are working on coordinating
a speaker and the venue for the DX Banquet that's
been held, I don't know, for many, many years
now. And of course, the YL Breakfast, that's
become a tradition that the YLs get together
on Sunday morning. We're not sure where they're
going to be, but that's planning is in the works
too. And again, we'll have more updates as we
move forward. Okay. 859 -982 -7373 is the phone
number if you'd like to jump in. Jill, KD8QGA
has a question. If mass may still be required,
will the... Von Braun Center offer up some disposable
mass if anybody forgets theirs or the ham fest
You all have to provide those or will they be
provided? That's her question No, we're gonna
have to send those people home. I'm sorry That
question that question has not come up yet, but
I thank you for bringing it up and we will have
to have some contingency plans for people who
do show up without a mask because other states,
uh, you know, are different. If we understand
that masks get lost, they get dropped. We will
have to, we will have to make plans to have those
available. Now I can tell you that, you know,
pulling off a wedding in the middle of, of COVID,
uh, was not an easy task. And so we did that.
We got all this hand sanitizer and we got some
disposable mass and everything and we did use
a little bit of the sanitizer but i don't think
we ever did even open the masks i don't think
we had to but uh... but yeah it's always kind
of nice to have a few of those around just just
in case so yeah yeah well that's uh... uh...
i'm making a note to myself right now that we
are planning to get those because i i honestly
don't know how easy they are to get available
we need to start now yeah the the disposal ones
are not too not too hard to find unless you you
go for the really really medic you know really
good ones the medical grade Mike Braun is in
the house tonight says he is ready for Huntsville
so that's You know, one more here that's ready
to go. So I know there's, you know, there will
be some, um, that aren't comfortable with, with
going and, and, you know, and then that's okay.
Um, and I, I've been taking things very, very
cautiously, but I don't know. Something just
tells me that by August, I think things are going
to be, um, be very doable and, and hopefully
that's the case. Yeah, I agree. Neil, none of
us have a crystal ball. None of us could have
predicted back in February of 2020 when we gathered
in Orlando, COVID -19 was a curiosity. We were
hearing about it in the news and oh my gosh,
one month later, the world went sideways. We've
got to pin our hopes that things are going to
be better. The vaccine is out. And yeah, you're
right. Uh, there will be folks that, uh, out
of, uh, out of fear or caution, uh, choose not
to attend and, um, you know, no, no offense.
Um, we're, you know, none and none taken. We,
we hope that, uh, if you are comfortable with,
uh, with coming, we would love to have you. There
you go. And that's coming from the world's friendliest
ham fest. So So there you go. Jill's also wondering,
I don't know if you've got any information on
this, but we'll try, about the embassy, about
the dining area for breakfast. Are they spacing
anything out? Do you know anything about that?
My last visit to the embassy was when we when
we had to cancel last year I honestly have not
been back in the building I hope that they have
that great buffet breakfast I really do because
I'm I stay there on site because I need to be
there so much I really hope they have that great
breakfast oh yeah it's fabulous it's fabulous
but it just Sometimes it's a little close depending
on what time you go now that you know I'm not
a morning person so when I go there's usually
not a whole lot of people there, but All right
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July 1st of August when we have Mark back on
the show and and tell us what's what's going
on in much more detail fact we may even do that
a little earlier this year just because of the
Additional planning that you know you need to
do to protect yourself and protect others that's
going to be very important and So just be prepared
to you know to Protect yourself with the with
the masking and that kind of thing All right.
Well, let's see. Do we have anything else here?
Okay, don't see anything here don't see anything
here and of course, you know, we've we've got
You know, it's great to make all these plans,
but you know something should change I know you'll
you'll let us all know if if that does happen,
but We're excited and I know you know when I
texted you the other day yours you said, you
know I forget how you put it. You weren't jumping
up and down with excitement, but I forget how
you said it. It was obvious you were very excited
at the news. We are, Neil. The whole committee,
when we clarified ourselves, we need via Zoom
just because we're geographically far apart and
it's just convenient. We've gotten used to Zoom
meetings and it's just working for us. Very soon
we'll probably morph into some face -to -face
meetings to cover a lot of these details. But
yeah, we're all getting excited. It's contagious.
We hear on other podcasts, the various vendors,
the various flea market folks, and visitors.
We read it in chat rooms, we read it in forum
posts. People really want to get out. And we're
going to try to make it work for everybody. Well,
that's some encouraging news. And that's what
we're here to bring you tonight. We can't tell
you anything for sure, but we do know that the
plans are moving. So thank you so much for coming
on and giving us some encouraging news and some
hope for A big ham fest in August and you all
always put on an excellent show down there and
I think there's a lot of people that are going
to want to go to this one if they haven't gone
before just because it's been so long since we've
had a good one. A good big massive ham fest.
Not to say the smaller ones aren't good but you
know it's just It's just different You know,
I couldn't say it even if I knew but I'm hopeful
I remain hopeful that That maybe we'll get it.
Maybe we'll hear or get a new product announcement
coming out of Huntsville They haven't had the
venue and you know, yesu icon Kenwood Ellicraft
Flex radio surely there is something being worked
on in the garage that they want to roll out and
Gosh, it would be cool if they would do it in
Huntsville It would it would so you never know
And I know there's always changes out there.
There's always always something coming up. So
That very well could be Well mark, thanks so
much for For being here anything else that we
need to hit here before we go No, I think we've
covered most of the stuff. I'm short on detailed
information, but that's what we're working on
filling in the blanks and appreciate the opportunity
to come on tonight and then later sometime as
we get toward June, July, come on with more concrete
details. But again, Neil, thank you for the opportunity
to chat with you and your audience tonight. All
right. Well, that's Mark Brown in for BCD. the
chairman of the Huntsville Hamfest and thanks
so much again for coming on the show and sharing
your news with us and we look forward to hopefully
seeing you in August. So that is a wrap. Seven
three that is a wrap for this week's edition
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