Hamfests and Events
Friday-Sunday August 1-3: Hanover, PA
3.905 CCN Annual Eyeball by 3.905 Century
Club, Pleasant Hill Vol. Fire Company, Hanover,
PA. Bill Dobson, N3WD, 443-465-6583
n3wd@arrl.net Talk-in: 146.895
Sunday, August 3, Berryville ( Winchester) VA
58th Annual Berryville Hamfest ; Shenandoah
Valley ARC; Clarke Co,. Ruritan Fairgrounds,
Bus. Rte. 7, Berryville… 540-533-2626;
hamfest@svarc.org (146.82/R)
August 9, 10: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg Amateur Radio Club Hamfest
Hilton Suites Hotel, Winnipeg Airport
Hamfest 2008@mts.net; 146.61/R , 147.39/R
http://www.mts.net/~warc/hamfest/contact.html
(great site to learn how to put on a hamfest
and get people to attend ...)
Sunday, August 17, Westminster, MD
Carroll County ARC Tailgate Fest. Carroll Co.
Agr. Center, off Rte. 32, Westminster, MD. .
(145.41/R) Bill, N3WM, 410-861-9366
Sat./Sun. Sept. 20-21 - Virginia Beach, VA
Va. Beach Hamfest ; VA Wesleyan College.
1584 Wesleyan Dr. VA Beach. (146.97/R)
Lynn, W9DJQ, 757-479-1597
hamfest@exis.net
Sunday, October 5: W. Friendship, MD
CARAFest 2008, Howard Co. Fairground
(410) 552-2632; http://www.carafest.org
Sunday, October 26: Westminster, MD
Mason-Dixon Hamfest at Carroll Co. Agr.
Center, off Rte. 32, Westminster, MD
http://www.qis.net/~k3pzn; 145.410/R
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VE EXAMS
BARC VE EXAMS for 2008
12360 Owings Mills Blvd. Owings Mills
Register: 1:30 PM, Exams begin 2 PM.
No one admitted after exams begin
Saturdays:
Aug. 2, Sept. 6, Nov 2, Dec 1.
Sundays:
Oct. 5. n3wke@arrl.net (Thanks, N3YI)
2008 AERO VE EXAMS
Registration at 1 PM, Exams at 1:30.
Fee $14 ( ARRL VEC); All exams at
White Marsh Library, 8133 Sandpiper
Circle;
Sept. 27, Nov. 22. Pat Stone, AC3F,
ac3f@juno.com,
410-687-7209
Other Club Exams
2nd Saturday, 1 PM, Davidsonville, by AARC. Register 12 noon. Bob, AA3RR, 410-437-8193
3rd Saturday, 9 AM, Laurel, by LARC, 384 Main St. John Creel, WB3GXW, 301-572-5124.
4th Tuesday, 6 PM, Linthicum. At Historical Electronics Museum. Harold, WB4OGP, 410-757-0493(h);
410-712-6829(w)
Foundation For Amateur Radio Scholarships
The Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR) announces
the winners of the 55 scholarships It administers.
Winner of the Ernest L. Walker, WB3DVL Memorial
Scholarship, sponsored by the BRATS is Thomas
Christovich, KB3HUR of Baltimore, MD.
Hiram Percy Maxim's Telegraph Key Returns to ARRL HQ
At the ARRL Board of Director's meeting
this past weekend, the telegraph key that once belonged to Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, was returned to ARRL Headquarters.
According to ARRL First Vice President Kay Craigie, N3KN, the key had been in the collection of the Antique Wireless
Association's Electronic Communication Museum near
Rochester, New York for more than 20 years.
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