The Hoosier Hills Hamfest is my favorite.  Small, camping, no long list of "rules", inexpensive, free Saturday night chili, just a lot of fun to be at.  This year the weather was great.  Crowd was about average I guess, a few more in the pole barn area.  I went down on Friday just to be out of the drive with the Urban Assault RV and camp.  There is a new grounds keeper, a nice young guy.  When I arrived they were repairing a water line getting ready for the set up day (Saturday).  Here are my pictures.  I had some camera problems and focus is less than dead on with some photos but they are viewable.  They are in rough order, Friday-Saturday-Sunday more or less.  Click on any thumbnail for a 500k to 1 meg hi-rez photo if you see something you want a closer look at.

Come on in for the show

The Urban Assault RV backed in Friday

Looking at the UARV from under the pole barn roof

My favorite spot - you would have to fight me for it

This temporary hamfest antenna worked GREAT

The Lava Lamp collection is in place

I remounted the radios for this trip

This works great for mobile in motion operation

Icom 706 and SB-230 in the back for portable ops

The view out the back window

It is all quiet on friday

Manager and Grounds guy fixing a water problem

Friday the back lot is empty

A long view of the pole barn

Set up begins

Hello ??

This guy had a lot of stuff to set up

Things will start happening soon

Ahhhh Yes

Wade KB9MID is setting up Saturday AM

The KB9MID hotel

Retirement has been good to K9LNX

Gary K9LNX brought along his 5 star hotel

I think this thing has a crank up 2nd story

Gary K9LNX and Wife ready for the show to start

Customers at Wades Store

Some real deals goin' down

Campers coming in the back lot

A nice pop-up in a prime spot

More campers moving in

Just when I thought Gary had a BIG camper

Backing in a good location

Looking south toward the main entrance

You can find the grounds keeper here, a nice guy

Setting up in the back lot

Hey - a Heathkit HW-101

The pole barn got busy Saturday

Stuff

Saturday air force fly by

More stuff

A LOT more stuff

A serious tuner

Read the sign.........

Some very nice inexpensive bird houses

I believe this is a Mustang

Nice no-holes mount in back

Real decent mobile

It takes a big motor to power all that ham gear

Some serious driving lights

Off to some hot chili - and to wait for Sunday

N9VYV and his BIG Johnson

The tailgate section

Vintage radios

These have TUBES !!

More radio stuff

There was a lot of stuff out there

More junk - uh - I ment hamfest treasures

Hmmmmmm

The famous D-104 Lolly-pop

Heathkit items, how many DX-60's did they make

Always look under the tables

Some old SSTV gear

That is a lot of tower

More treasures

A scope in nice condition

A close view of the P-7 screen SSTV monitor

Odds and ends

I know what SOME of this is

There is always some crafty stuff

Killer dangerous attack dog guards the crafty stiff

It's digital

More sutff

And More Stuff

Some test gear

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN' AT ??

Ham Station from Evansville is on site inside

Ham Station had some decent used gear

Antennas, wire, feed line

Any adapter you can imagine

New stuff

The usual name tags, etc

Some signage

Antennas, mikes, parts is parts

Shoppers

Some decent gear, back to the 60's on some

The auction to raise money for the club

Smarts for sale

TUBES !!

You can still get tubes.....

Lote of LED related items

Things are winding down

End of hamfest depression setting in

A forrest of antennas

There was a decent crowd

In fact parking started to run out

The Tailgaters

Looking north

Those push up poles are hard to find these days

The tailgate section

I will be back next year