{"id":2327,"date":"2009-08-30T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2009-08-30T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T02:05:00","slug":"joplin-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/30\/joplin-hamfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Joplin Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brainerdham.org\/hamfest\/images\/hamfest-sign.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This morning I, along with my oldest harmonic, headed down to a hamfest in Joplin, Missouri.  The hamfest was at Joplin&#8217;s Holiday Inn convention center, not a huge venue but plenty of room for a medium-seized hamfest.  I purchased my ticket at the door (my daughter got in free) and with each door ticket came 6 raffle tickets which I deposited into the ticket tumbler.  Cruising the tables here is what I saw:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0257.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><br \/>\nI enjoyed the Tarheel antenna table &#8211; they had a see-thru screwdriver antenna that allowed you to watch the motor spin while the coil moved up and down.  Pretty cool.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0259.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedradio.com\/\">Associated Radio<\/a> is the local Kansas City candy store and it is nice to see they made the trip down to Joplin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0261.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0262.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0263.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0265.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><br \/>\nSome interesting tubes.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0267.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_floor_IMG_0268.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><br \/>\nLooks like tubes won&#8217;t be going away for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video clip:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5j8HOQHcXK8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t make any purchases, but had a good time.  I enjoyed seeing some of the cars in the parking lot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_parkinglot_IMG_0279.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_parkinglot_IMG_0284.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Joplin_hamfest_parkinglot_IMG_0287.JPG\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"612\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I, along with my oldest harmonic, headed down to a hamfest in Joplin, Missouri. The hamfest was at Joplin&#8217;s Holiday Inn convention center, not a huge venue but plenty of room for a medium-seized hamfest. I purchased my ticket at the door (my daughter got in free) and with each door ticket came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/30\/joplin-hamfest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joplin Hamfest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-hamfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-Bx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}