{"id":2709,"date":"2010-10-31T07:49:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T07:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2010-10-31T07:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T07:49:53","slug":"hamfest-lufkin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/31\/hamfest-lufkin-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamfest: Lufkin, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took a trip back to the states to attend an exercise at Fort Hood, Texas.  I arrived a day early and had a free Saturday.  Checking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/hamfests-and-conventions-calendar\">ARRL website<\/a> for nearby hamfests, I saw that there was one scheduled in town of Lufkin.  Early Saturday morning I hoped in my rental car and sped east along Texas Hwy 7.  I arrived around 10am.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lufkinhamfest.com\/\">hamfest<\/a> was held at a church and I parked in the front lot along with a healthy population of vehicles bristling with antenna.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Lufkin_hamfest_02.JPG\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nMaking my way to the rear entrance of the church building, I saw that there was a small group of tailgaters with their wares out.  I headed inside to the entrance table where I was told there was no charge to attend.  Excellent!  Now, this wasn&#8217;t a huge hamfest &#8211; but what it lacked in size, it made up in spirit and the friendliness of the local hams.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Lufkin_hamfest_01.JPG\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nI perused the tables inside, arrayed around an indoor basketball court, not seeing anything that immediately caught my eye.  Then again, I really wasn&#8217;t in the market for anything.  There was a MARS booth &#8211; which impressed me that they would be present at a small event like this.  In one corner the hamfest organizers were selling Lufkin Hamfest t-shirts.  I scooped one of those up.  Next I ran across some late 1990s issues of QRPp, the journal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norcalqrp.org\/\">Northern California QRP Club<\/a>, which I picked up for 50 cents each.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/Lufkin_hamfest_03.JPG\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nI always enjoy cruising the parking lot at a hamfest to see the variety of mobile installations.  I had never seen such a large HF antenna mounted on a sedan before.  The antenna mount was rock solid and I imagine this ham enjoys his mobile HF QSOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took a trip back to the states to attend an exercise at Fort Hood, Texas. I arrived a day early and had a free Saturday. Checking the ARRL website for nearby hamfests, I saw that there was one scheduled in town of Lufkin. Early Saturday morning I hoped in my rental car and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/31\/hamfest-lufkin-tx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hamfest: Lufkin, TX&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,11,12],"tags":[107,159,187],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-radio","category-roadtrip","tag-hamfest","tag-mobile","tag-periodicals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-HH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","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=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}