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It's time for another edition of HamTalk Live.
It's episode number 54. Dayton Hamvention 2017
update with Michael Coulter, W8CI, recorded live
on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017. I'm your host,
Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for tuning in to this
episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight we'll be joined
by Michael Coulter, W8CI, the official spokesperson
for the Dayton Hamvention. Tonight we'll be taking
your calls and talking about the new location
of Hamvention and how plans are coming along.
So we'll take your calls in just a few minutes.
Last week we were on a day and an hour early
because I had to announce the last home basketball
game of the season where I teach. And Dr. Bill
Mitchell, A -E -0 -E -E, was my guest who talked
about the scientific research he performed while
on the recent Heard Island De -Expedition. So
if you missed that show, you can listen anytime.
That's over at HamTalkLive .com or on iTunes,
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over on our YouTube channel and other podcasting
applications. On Tuesday night I was a guest
pundit on Ham Radio Now. We talked about the
ARRL survey, about considering a change in the
entry -level licensing. Did that along with Marty,
Chicken with Fries, and Sterling in Zero SSC
from the Phasing Line podcast, and David WZeroDHG,
and Gary KN4AQ from Ham Radio Now. So if you're
interested in that, we tossed around some ideas.
Go on over to Ham Radio Now or... uh... the phasing
line you can check out the video at ham radio
now on the audio phasing line and that was a
lot of fun to be on that show so uh... We may
have to see if we can do that again one of these
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podcasting websites. Michael Coulter, W8CI, is
the official spokesperson for the Dayton Hamvention.
Mike lives in the area and is a past president
of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association and Hamvention
general chairman for 2011 and 2012. He's currently
a treasurer and board member of DARA and a finance
chair for Hamvention and he's an active musician,
Skywarn net control, and HF operator. He's traveled
the world including Tunisia and the Peace Corps
and as a speaker about ham radio in Germany,
Qatar and India. So Michael, thank you for coming
on HamTalk Live tonight. Michael? Hey, well,
Neil, I'm honored to be here. It's yeah. Can
you hear me? Yeah, I hear you now. Yep. Hello.
Good. Yep. We're good. Okay. Okay. Hey, Neil,
I'm happy to be here and Yeah, it Times getting
closer and you had most of my bio there and pretty
simple stuff But anyway, we'll we're glad to
be here and ready to talk a little bit about
him mentioned So what I'm sure you probably have
some questions and so let's start off with your
questions first And then I'll probably add a
few things toward the end and then we can take
some calls Sure, sounds great. And we do want
to try to get some calls in here a little later.
So We'll let you know when that's ready to go.
I guess first thing that's been Going around
online lately has been things about the online
ticket ordering and the vendors and the flea
market. And you guys just put out an announcement
on the official Hamvention website at hamvention
.org and on your social media outlets that online
ticket ordering has started. And the returning
vendors and flea market people were going to
be contacted directly because there were some
complications going on. So why don't you tell
us what that process is and how that process
is going to get all the reservations made this
year? Well, I think the inside vendor thing is
really moving along. And I want to let everybody
know the same with flea market. And I'll talk
a little bit more in specifics. But I really
appreciate we at Ham prevention really appreciate
everybody's patience. You know an event this
size and it's an all -volunteer none of us get
any money doing it but we do it out of just sheer
love and we recognize the importance of excuse
me of hand -vention and we've had to take this
site and completely measure everything inside
all the buildings and split it up into how are
we going to lay it out in booths. And that also
includes all the outside areas that we're going
to use, flea market. And then after we got that
done, we had to upload it into our carrier that
we use, the company that we use to help us sell
tickets and inside booths. And that turned out
to be a little bit more tedious than we had expected.
However, it is working now and the inside exhibits,
if you received, if you had applied earlier and
you received an email giving you the steps of
how that's gonna be done, you can actually, you
know, Brian will work his best to get you the
spots that you want. And that is working, if
you look, I think there's a section in there,
it's called PC Board, and you can see where so
many vendors are already signed up for this.
And as for the flea market, if you go to the
flea market webpage, it has a set of instructions,
they're basically five steps, and it'll explain
to you how to make your... and get your spot.
And so what you do, there's a floor plan, a PDF
floor plan, and you make notes of your first
and second, third choice, and you make sure that
gets to the flea market using the email address,
fleamarketathamvention .org, and you want to
be sure to have a phone number where we can reach
you. And in the subject line of the email, put
reservation and that's all listed and how to
do that. And then we are taking those one by
one. We have a pretty good size committee, but
we are, we'll call you back shortly and see if
we can't get everything taken care of and we'll
guide you through the rest of it. So that, that's
kind of what's happening on the flea market and
the indoor, the indoor vendors, that all seems
to be going pretty good right now. And yeah,
there's a few hiccups and just, If you have a
concern, you know, be sure you send your concern
to the inside exhibits chairman. Go ahead, Neil.
Yeah. Okay. Very good. Um, and online tickets
are just, just running, right? And that's, that's
all going just fine. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe
how fast that's. I mean, I think we're selling
a lot of tickets right now. And as we talk about
tickets, let me mention that we had one of our
big county meetings and I'm kind of excited to
talk about some of the items that came out of
that, how well the county and the city of Xenia
and the surrounding areas are working with us.
But the Convention Visitors Bureau for Green
County, said that most of the hotels and motels
are sold out right now. I mean, there's bed and
breakfast places left. But if you're staying
in Dayton, which is Montgomery County, there
are still spaces there. And if you are trying
to get a space and you don't have one yet, be
sure to call the Green County Convention Visitors
Bureau and they can help you tremendously find
a place, as will the Montgomery County Convention
Visitors Bureau. So that's I think that that's
some pretty interesting news that already this
was actually some time in the middle of February
when we got the word that all the hotels and
motels were in Greene County were booked out.
Go ahead, Neil. Well, I saw some pictures online
this afternoon from some of the ticket sales
at some of your stores that are providing the
ticket sales for you as well. They have radio
stores and so it looks like that is well underway.
So that's great. Well, we know there's going
to be a lot of upgrades this year just because
we've got a new facility to use. Anything else
that's new, not necessarily tied to the fairgrounds?
Anything new that we should be looking for happening
at Hamvention this year in the plane so far?
Yeah, I think that, let me go over a couple of
things. This is, you know, everybody calls it
fairgrounds. It's actually an expo center as
well. They have a lot of things, a lot of different
events there. Um, so it's actually at expo center
and fairgrounds. Um, the things that we have
planned there, um, there's going to be, you know,
normally every year we hear complaints about
food. And so we have, I think at least 19 food
trucks coming in, if not more. And we have, um,
a lot of people who, um, you know, we've sort
of handpicked most of them. For example, our
local cattlemen's association, how good would
it be to get a nice ribeye or a real fresh hamburger
when they cook it right in front of you fairly
quickly? So the food and places to sit will have
lots of picnic tables and some extra bleachers
and things like that. like a beer garden, and
we'll probably even have a specially brewed hand
-benching beer. I hear that's happening as well.
So in as far as food goes, that's going to be
a new improvement. And we got to get this in.
We have to put this in because I've already heard
this is there, but cheesecake on a stick. It's
back, right? I I don't know where you heard that,
but it it could be there. I don't know I These
we're putting together a great plan of food And
I know some of them, but I don't know all the
ins and outs, but if you want Very often, but
it's it's like a tradition. It's just one of
those Hamvention traditions that they have the
cheesecake on a stick. So I heard it was back,
but I hope I'm right. OK, good. You may be. In
the not too distant future, we'll have the information
about all the trucks. And I don't have all of
that yet. And the expo people are going to be
giving that to me. Next time you're on, we're
going to verify that. OK, let me move on with
a couple other things. Sure, go right ahead.
I know you're talking about food, I get you all
excited, but you know, amateur radio operators
love their food. And also, another exciting thing
that's happened, and I actually read, you know,
there was some conversation about that on probably
your site. It was about Xenia City Schools, Xenia
Community Schools, which covers a lot of the
area outside of Xenia. They closed for that Friday.
they shut down, and I've never heard of that
happening, a school system, I mean an entire
school system closing down because of a ham fest
event. That's pretty huge. So that really frees
up and helps, well that helps us with traffic,
but it gets even better than that. We are asking
the school superintendent to let us know how
many tickets that we can give for the kids to
come and enjoy the day. And that's gonna be on
us, because what a great opportunity for us to
have a lot of youth come in and learn a little
bit more about the technology. And so we're excited
about that. We're really glad that that happened.
And not only that, even more exciting too, is
that we are going to have some off -site parking
as well. So people coming in from maybe Beaver
Creek area or Dayton, if you don't wanna navigate
the rest of the way in, we're gonna have a parking
lot in a very safe area, and we'll still have
security there, and we'll have buses bringing
people in pretty quickly. don't wanna come on
the grounds and park, and actually that's not
a bad idea. The way everything's going, this'll
be a huge year for us. We're expecting over 30
,000 people, but we'll be able to handle it.
We've got 104 acres there, and we have plenty
of parking, not only that location, across the
street, and we're gonna have the off -site parking,
and the county is... of helping us pay for buses
that we'll be using to bus people in. So those
are just a couple of big things. We are getting
a really great internet system really solidly
in place throughout the whole grounds. It was
interesting. One of our local television stations
was in there, and they were taking, they were
talking to some of the Fairgrounds people. None
of us were there from hand -vention, but there
was an electrician who was up. Working in one
of the buildings and they so what are you doing?
Is this all for hand -vention? They said oh,
yeah, we're running at least five miles of wire
will be run. So Wow, that's it improve electric
service prove the electric service in there and
improve on Making sure that internet lines is
best we can everybody has that then the other
thing that I saw last week the Expo board took
me over and they showed me this Restroom and
they said look at this restroom because I told
them, you know, I we can't have we have to have
very clean Excellent restrooms. So what they
did they took all the fixtures out completely
out of that restroom Wash it top to the bottom
painted it put this new coating on the floor
in the process of putting all the fixtures back
in and there's even showers in some of these
areas. So they took us to hurt when we told them
the restroom's gotta be perfect. So that's another
big thing that's happening. So I'll give it back
to you if you have a question. Very, very good.
Well, that's some great stuff. And yeah, I just
happened to run into the thing about... the school
district announcing that they were taking off
for hamvention and boy that created created a
stir so hopefully that'll that'll pay off and
we'll get some more young hams in in the fold
and get them at least interested in it and see
what it is. Well I know you guys have been working
hard since all this took place last year to get
everything ready to go and it's really just reinventing
the whole thing just about. But what are some
of the things that you think visitors are going
to notice the most right away when they get to
the new facility? You walk in the door, what
do you think they're going to notice? I think
they're going to appreciate how clean and nice
and well organized these buildings are when they
walk in. I think that people that use scoot arounds
are going to... I appreciate the way we have
to scoot around people away from the main, that
would be not too far away from the main entrance,
but you won't have to stand there with crowded
around like when you have the flea market, people
would come in and you're trying to get in to
get your unit and get out. We've thought that
out a lot better. They'll appreciate that. In
the buildings, I think it's going to be all business
in the buildings inside of where all the vendors
will be. We won't have food areas inside of there
because we're getting such a huge demand for
people. As a matter of fact, we even have some
huge tents that people will be having their booths
in and they're very nice. We've got a lot of
room there and that will be right next to the
buildings. In the forums, I think they're going
to really appreciate the forum rooms. They'll
be very nice. Some of them are carpeted, I think
most of them are, and it'll be a big switch and
a big change for them when folks go to the forums.
You know in the walkways between the buildings
most of them have covered walkways the vendors
will really like it because they'll be able to
park their trucks right behind the buildings
and You know, they'll have their spots and they'll
be and they'll have their own entrance in and
out So they'll be able to get to their equipment
to load and unload So we are we're looking at
things like that to really make a difference.
So I think it's going to be bright inside. But
will we have problems? We might. We're really
working on a five -star event. What a five -star
event means is that we really want to have a
place for hams to come that is a great place
to come and really a lot of fun and well -organized.
So that's the goal and that's the plan and now
everybody's working so hard towards it. Another
big question would be that we get is parking
or driving into the place. I hear a lot about
that, but just shortly after we signed on to
go to the Green County Expo Center, we engaged
with a a private engineering firm that does this
kind of work traffic flow. And we've been meeting
with them in conjunction with the police departments
to fire EMS. And so we really get a good traffic
flow. And that's one of the reasons why we're
not charging anything for for parking, because
we don't want to stop people on the street, take
money, make change, let them go in. We're just
going to bring them right in. And so that's free
with the ticket. And that's a That's another
big change this year. Sure. Go ahead. Yeah, that's
great. That'll speed things up tremendously to
get everybody in and out of there. So good job
on working on that. And hopefully it'll all go
OK. But it's the first time. It's the first time
at a new place. And so there's going to be a
few things that get overlooked. You try not to.
You try to cover everything. but I'm sure there'll
be a few things that will come up, but those
can be fixed and, you know, always looking at
ways to get better and I think it'll be great.
Yeah, one of the things that I want to mention
too is that the money and the proceeds that we
get off of hand -bent, we really shared that
money very generously with the rest of the amateur
radio community in terms of a lot of scholarships,
a lot of support to some of the activities that
are going on in amateur radio world. And we consider,
we really do give back a considerable amount
of money. So it isn't just something that we
just, oh boy, are we getting a lot of money for
our club. I can tell you as treasurer, finance
man, we give a lot of money away, and rightfully
so. And once again, nobody gets paid for this.
Not anybody at all. We're all volunteers. Now
we may pay, donate for fire and EMS and some
of those things, or we'll have some outside portage
ons that we will... We pay those kind of bills.
As far as all the management and the running
of it, it's all volunteer. I do want to mention
that there is camping on site and I know that
it was closing up. I don't know if it's completely
full yet. You can contact the Green County Expo
Fairgrounds Center and ask them about that because
they're handling it. But there are a lot of sites
there. But if you are camping, there's a beautiful
campground about six miles south of there. And
it's at Caesars Creek State Park and it's a beautiful
park and has, I don't know, 278 camping spots,
I think. It's a beautiful lake there, just easy
drive into Xenia. So that's something that a
lot of people don't know about. But when you
go to our page, the... dot hand bench and dot
org there's a lot of information there and a
lot of links and I really encourage you even
to look at that before you come like and I do
want to say that The once again the whole community
is completely behind this as a matter of fact
I share something interesting when you get into
Xenia There'll be Flags on all these flagpoles
and right up the whole route almost to the front
of the fairgrounds. It will be loaded with these
beautiful flags, welcoming people to Hamvention.
To me, yeah, I mean, when you have a city and
a county that is working that hard hand in hand
with us, because they see the benefit too, but
to support an amateur radio event, that is really
big. I don't know that I've ever heard of that
happening, actually. Yeah, that's all great news
and glad to hear it. And personally, next year,
I think you need to get paid double. I've doubled
my pay for every year I've been doing this for
25 plus years. So anyway, multiplying by zero
just, you know, that's the way it goes. Right.
Yeah, but you know, it's for us is a labor of
love. It's like you don't get paid if you do
I'm sorry, I'll make much but but you know, this
is all even Websites everything. Oh my god, it's
it's it's a lot of work. So But we're trying
to keep up with the All the things on our website
to so that it all works and occasionally there
are glitches. So let me give them The dates of
when this is going to happen is May 19th 20th
and 21st I don't know that I need to tell everybody
that but I'm going to so in the advanced admission
advanced admission tickets are $22 which is a
pretty good deal day of the events 27 and That's
tickets are good for all three days. So Anyway,
yeah any other questions Well, I think we need
to take a quick break here. But then we'll come
back and we'll take some questions from our listeners,
hopefully. So we'll come back and talk a little
bit and then we'll start taking some calls right
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And our first caller is here from a familiar
area code. Who we have on the line here? Hello,
this is Jeremy, KF7IJZ from the Ham Radio 360
podcast. Very good. Well, what's your question
for? uh... michael tonight so my quick question
was about inside uh... boot space because we've
we've seen the news uh... one of my co -producers
has been a long -time exhibitor hand bench and
that has not received any contact from uh...
the organizing committee whatsoever which we
were under the impression we would and then i
have filled out the online for that was provided
about a week ago and have not heard anything
back. And so I was curious to know if there's
just a long backlog or if we should try again
or maybe get a little more information. Well,
Jeremy, I don't know why we probably haven't
got back to everyone yet. And but yeah, please
feel free to reach out back to inside, I think
it's inside exhibits, wherever you sent it before.
Did they send you back the information of how
to apply and everything? Did they send that to
you? No, they haven't. Like I said, I was surprised
that George had not heard anything and then you
guys had a form on your website where you could
go and put your top three spots in and add some
comments and I showed that out but got nothing
back. Okay, do this. You can, you can also copy
me on email and I will personally take a look
at it for you too. And my email is really easy.
It's Michael. You can actually, I'm good on QRZ.
So you can look me up on QRZ whiskey at Charlie
Indy. Yeah. Wonderful. Thank you. Give it a shot.
Thanks for calling in Jeremy. Appreciate it.
Thanks for having the show and having me on.
Have a great night gentlemen. 73. All right,
thanks a lot. Yeah, and then that's something
that we have to do, you know, this is patience
with things and it's gonna take a while to get
everything going. So, appreciate you looking
into that. Okay, so give us a call eight one
two net ham one is the number eight one two six
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our guest tonight is Michael Coulter w8ci He
is the official spokesperson for the Dayton hamvention
So we have time for a call or two give us a call
eight one two net ham one We'll wait here and
see if we have any other callers. One thing I
wanted to ask was about cell phone service. I
know at a lot of big events, cell phone companies
will come in and add some portable networks to
kind of fill in whenever. events have happened.
Have you heard anything about if any of the cellular
services are going to beef up their networks
a little bit better? Actually, we are on that
right now, and I can't give you definitive answers
of who's going to be there and what, but we are
definitely, that's been a concern since the day
one. good cell phone service generally. When
you get that many people, we're going to need
some help on it. So we have reached out to major
carriers and I can't give you the answer just
yet, but it's definitely, I mean, we need to
be able to get out with our phones too. So. Yeah,
I think what we learned in the ARRL Teachers
Institute when we were learning things to promote,
you know, ham radio in schools and everything
is that cellular carriers have to provide enough
service for 3 % of their customer base at a time.
And so when you bring something like Hamvention
in, 3 % is just not going to cut it. Yeah, you
got that right. I appreciate that. But generally,
it's been pretty good service here. You know,
another interesting thing that, you know, you
mentioned earlier that I am one of our primary
net control operators actually at the Weather
Bureau in Wilmington, Ohio, and we cover most
of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Eastern
Indiana. And so I work right down there with
the Forecasters and we have different area Leads
out there and that control operators and you
know handle five or ten counties and so I've
gotten another folks at the Weather Bureau and
they are going to watch the weather specifically
right over that area and They're going to give
us a warning not just if it's a tornado, but
They'll give us a good heads up warning if we
get significant higher winds or dangerous lightning
coming and even heavy rain. So we'll all have
a pretty good idea. That's generally going to
go to our emergency management people that will
be there. But also, I'll put a quick plug in
for that one. There's going to be a great forum,
there's a young man there, he's one of these,
our chief forecaster, and he puts on a really
amazing forum about what happened. in the weather
station when severe weather comes. What do they
go through? How do they look at? What do they
look at? So that's going to be a real exciting
forum. So look for that one to come up. Great.
Sounds like a good one. 812 -NATAM -1 is the
number 812 -638 -4261. If you want to get a call
in, we have time for just another call here.
Stopped you. I think we've got a little delay
going here tonight. So so let me let me go ahead
and let you finish No, I did finish we're just
fine, okay just fine so back to you, okay Getting
another question via Twitter here about traffic
routing from Dayton will there be Any kind of
police presence? for traffic coming out of Dayton?
Do we know anything about that yet? We will have,
because people will be coming from Dayton, from
Cincinnati, from a lot of different directions,
and there's a lot of ways into Zinnia, and we
have been studying all of them. We've worked
even with the county engineer as well, State
Highway Patrol, and They will be in Green County
actually goes right up to the edge of Dayton
there. It's very, very close. So as you get closer
in, there'll be signs, there'll be police officers.
We've already picked the stoplights that could
be a problem. So we'll have somebody there actually
working the stoplights. If you have to make a
left turn in one of the places against traffic,
we'll have extended turn time. We'll have police
all along the way. Worried about not worried,
but we want people to have a good experience
getting there. We're going to have you know,
talk in is really going to be a beefed up and
As we get closer to the date we I can give you
all the plans what talking is going to be doing
and Usually it's on one frequency They may have
more than one frequency going just so they can
handle everything and we'll post all of that
information as well so I hope that that Whoever's
tweeting in there Hope that it gives them some
comfort that we definitely want a good traffic
flow Yeah, very good. That's that's some good
information and dr Scott right k0md is asking
about traffic flow a little bit and also about
coming back to events in the evening that are
downtown. Same thing goes for that? Yes. Same
thing goes. But most of the traffic will really
take place. My history with prevention is not
so much when people are leaving, but we will
have police presence there. Absolutely to get
people out and especially toward the very end
of the show and getting back into Dayton But
getting back heading back into Dayton is four
lane four lane And that generally flows pretty
good. There's I think a few traffic lights, but
not many and It'll be an easy flow same same
of the people staying in Beaver Creek should
be a nice flow going back there as well All right,
very good. Well, we're just about out of time,
so let me give you the last word here. We've
got about a minute. If there's anything that
was on your list of things you wanted to talk
about, go ahead and throw them out there, and
then we'll wrap things up. Well, Neil, first
of all, thank you for supporting us at Ham Bench,
and we'd like to thank everyone. Everybody's
listening out there, or maybe listening later.
please realize that this is not a WHCI show,
this is a show, we have 600 volunteers and we
have like 80 different, we have 40 plus committees
and we have a chair and co -chair with each of
these committees. And so there's meetings going
on continuously all over Green County as well
as at our clubhouse. So we're really the whole
team is really working hard. This is not our
first -hand invention, but it is the first one,
excuse me, the first one in Xenia, Ohio, but
we really want to take all the things that we
learned that we wish we could have changed before,
where we have an opportunity now to change it,
so. I look forward to being back on your program
later as we get more and more news. It's always
a pleasure to work with you, Neil. You've got
a great program, and I thank everybody once again.
This is Whiskey H. Charlie, India. All right.
Thank you very much, Michael. Thanks for coming
on the show, answering the questions. And we
do look forward to having you back on in a few
weeks before Hamvention to give us the latest
news as those final plans come together and another
chance for our listeners to ask some questions
directly from the source. So we appreciate that.
HamTalk Live will have five weeks of Hamvention
preview shows leading up to our live show on
Hamvention Eve will be featuring various activities
such as forums and Contest University which also
takes place on Hamvention Eve. So be sure to
tune in the weeks prior to Dayton and if you
arrive in time join us for their live audience
show that's on Thursday May 18th at Spring Hill
Suites in Miamisburg at our usual broadcast time
of 9 p .m. Eastern. So that's a wrap for this
week's edition. of HamTalk Live. Thanks to my
guest, Michael Coulter, W8CI, and everyone out
there in cyberspace for listening and calling
in, and invite you all back next Thursday night
at 9 p .m. Eastern Time. And for a list of all
of our upcoming guests, just visit hamtalklive
.com. So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG,
saying 7375, and may the good DX be yours. Bye
bye.