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moderators can you make this a sticky like each year.

IM DEFINITELY GOING!

i encourage all of you to buy your hotel rooms soon, they book up very quick, often by march its hard to find a room in the closest areas to the fest.
popular hotels i know of are all the hotels on miller rd, they are an excellent location with plenty of food within walking distance and there's plenty of simplex activity too.


remember the bat dinner at miller rd longhorn in 2005? good memories, it would be great if another dinner like that could be pulled off. THIS WOULD BE THE 10 YEAR REUNION OF THAT GROUP MEETING AT LONGHORN, LETS PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER THERE AGAIN ON FRIDAY NIGHT FOR MORE CRAZINESS!!!



ill be bringing
VHF XTS3000 on the usual 151.88 in analog and P25
UHF XTS3000 scanning the usual uhf batboard freqs in analog and P25
VHF Icom F3161DS (NXDN digital) on 151.880 Digital RAN 1
UHF Icom F4161DT (NXDN digital) on 462.7125 Digital RAN 1
900 GTX on 927.500 CSQ analog
NEXTEL i355 set to direct talk simplex channel 1 code 1 (do you have an old nextel that does directalk? bring it, there's a following of peeps that do)

i dont have any DMR/MOTOTRBO Portable radios yet, but ill be looking for some I did pick up a UHF Mobile so i may have it installed by the fest.

anyone setting up any repeaters on the grounds? VHF UHF 900 analog/P25/DMR/NXDN?



Frequencies.....the usual list from batlabs.

Name Frequency Service PL

Green 151.880 MURS D143/NAC293 (the most popular in list for analog P25 and occasionally VSELP) i heard DMR/Mototrbo data on it in 2014.
Blue 151.940 MURS DPL 143 (never heard any D143 activity)
Red 154.570 MURS DPL 143 (never heard any D143 activity)


Name Frequency Service PL

xband 146.5750 Analog Ham ___ D143 } Crossband (has some activity, depends on the year)
xband 446.8250 Analog Ham ___ D143 } DPL 143! (has some activity, depends on the year)


Astro 146.5650 Astro Ham IMBE CAI Digital CSQ (has some activity, depends on the year)
Astro 446.9250 Astro Ham IMBE CAI Digital CSQ (has some activity, depends on the year)


Alpha 462.6625 GMRS DPL 072 (never heard any batlabs activity)
Bravo 462.6875 GMRS DPL 411 (never heard any batlabs activity)
Charlie 462.7125 GMRS DPL 143 (has some batlabs activity, depends on the year)
Delta 462.5500 GMRS DPL 627 (never heard any batlabs activity)
Echo 462.7000 GMRS DPL 331 (never heard any batlabs activity)


remember, book those hotels EARLY!!!

I may attend.

i should be going. not sure if driving or flying

I'll be there yet again.... monitoring the usual BS frequencies.

It's on my calendar but I have not booked a room yet. I looked a couple of weeks ago and was finding everything full in the area where I usually stay. Hoping I can find something or it might be break year from the Hamvention. Would like to be there just to see if any renovations have started. There was recent news media coverage of this.

i booked last night after an hour and a half looking for a reasonable hotel and found one south of the Hamvention with a indoor pool for 101$ a night. its about 15 minutes away from fest. its the Country inn and suites by carlson, gets high ratings on Orbitz.

all the miller road hotels that are reasonable are booked up now, the remaining require a crack pipe price of 170+$ a night.

one hotel clerk advised there's a Jehovah's witness convention in the area during that time too which is likely contributing to the lack of rooms.

I am going... Staying at the KOA outside of town and roughing it this year.

W3ZR wrote:I am going... Staying at the KOA outside of town and roughing it this year.

sounds like the most fun too.

The best part is going in and crashing the Drury breakfast.

wazzzzzzzzup wrote:i booked last night after an hour and a half looking for a reasonable hotel and found one south of the Hamvention with a indoor pool for 101$ a night. its about 15 minutes away from fest. its the Country inn and suites by carlson, gets high ratings on Orbitz.

This was a good tip.
I've booked there, too.

i booked here too

Gonna be there in the same spot as last year. Not sure what all I am bringing to sell. I know I am bringing some VHF and UHF duplexers and most likely a stickerless XTL5K VHF high power with a W-9 head. Gonna have a VHF and UHF MSF5000 as well, Coax and connectors out the wazoo. If you are looking for anything specific PM me and let me know. I will see if I have it and bring it along.

Oh yeah, I will also have a StepIR antenna (controller boom and all but one set of the fiberglass element tubes) and some other HF antenna goodies.