In a groundbreaking revelation, 31,000 radio enthusiasts will once again pretend it's 1925 instead of 2025 by fiddling with antennas and "ham" radios in the woods. It's like Coachella for people who think Morse code is the peak of modern communication.
https://www.arrl.org/field-day #radioenthusiasts #vintagecommunication #hamradio #hamfest #techculture #HackerNews #ngated

This Sunday (6/15 @ 9am) is the MIT Swap Meet / Electronics Flea market. $6 / $5 with printed flier from website.

It's "indoors" at the Albany St parking garage rain or shine!

Drop me a line if you want to meet up!

w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #hamfest #maker #dyi #cambridgema

I found a #Commodore SX-64 for a price I was willing to pay at the local #Hamfest. I love luggables!

Hamfest packet radio goodie.
Suspected to be from the former Finnish packet radio network.
1200baud 1200MHz band backhaul link with TAPR TNC-2 clone.

Saw some bandsaw tunable UHF band pass filters at a hamfest.
Did not buy any, as I already have one or two waiting for their date with the bandsaw.

This Sunday (5/18 @ 9am) is the MIT Swap Meet / Electronics Flea market. $6 / $5 with printed flier from website.

It's "indoors" at the Albany St parking garage rain or shine!

Drop me a line if you want to meet up!

https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #hamfest #maker #dyi

Probably some folks will disagree with me, but I think it's a sign of a good #hamfest when you spend so much time doing eyeball QSO that by the time you get to some of the tables they're already starting to pack up. #hamradio

I went to a hamfest this morning and all I ended up buying were chocolate-covered pretzels. Maybe Saturday I can go to the pretzel-fest and buy some ham radio crap

This morning I took a ride out to a #hamfest (a #hamradio flea market) which was being held in a high school just outside of Clinton, NJ, about a half hour drive from my apartment. It was on the small side and I was just about to leave when they announced that the pierogies were now ready in the little snack bar they were running next door in the cafeteria.
At four for $3 I couldn't pass them up and as I sat there munching happily a friendly (and a bit crazy) fellow joined me at the table. He was a real character and we got to chatting and I discovered he was a minor NYC celebrity, the Pigeon Meister of Brooklyn! #amateurradio
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/meet-downtown-brooklyns-pigeon-whisperer/

For some unfathomable reason, I’m driving an hour and a half north to attend the BoatAnchor #hamfest in Augusta tomorrow, then driving home to beat the snow. #hamradio

@Athena I'd recommend looking on https://ebay.com (AKA the biggest #hamfest in the world) and https://eham.net for used #CW paddles. Make sure you buy from someone with good rating and displays their #amateurradio callsign.

Anyone here going to be at Belton, TX for the Ham Expo this weekend? My son and I are planning on making a day trip out of it. I would love to see some people from the fedi there.

Any #amateurradio operators heading to the #Oklahoma #Hamfest this weekend?

https://www.hamholiday.com

It's a great day for a #hamfest. Let's play two! #HamRadio —at Butler, PA

Managed to resist the temptation at a hamfest, only grabbed the spectrum analyzer.

MIT Swapfest walk through for May 19, 2024. Things that caught my eye! Lots of retro computing today, some radios, some Arduino lots of laptops and phono equipment and LPs. #retrocomputing #hamfest #mit #cambridgema #swapfest

MIT Swapfest May 19 (Sunday) starting at 9am for buyers. Albany St Garage in Cambridge. $6 or $5 with a printed flyer. See http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #cambridgema #makers #mit #hamfest #hamradio

I went to a hamfest and this was the only radio I acquired.

SCORE!

A friend picked up a Yaesu DRX2 repeater new in box for $500.00 from a commercial vendor for me.