February 15 - 16, 2013
Also see the photos on the IOOK (International Order Of Krazies) website.
They take more photos of our hamfest than we do!
They're back!  |
RVs coming in Thursday.  |
Campers parking on the grounds.  |
Setting up Hospitality.  |
Hospitality raffle baskets.  |
Admission area Friday morning.  |
Waiting to get in.  |
The Country Store.  |
Lining up to buy tickets.  |
Wired Communications.  |
Front of the hall.  |
FlexRadio booth.  |
Civil Air Patrol.  |
Go Foods.  |
Civil Air Patrol table.  |
Waterless Wash exhibit.  |
Emergency products.  |
Amateur Radio Council of Arizona.  |
The ARRL booth.  |
Filling out those grand prize tickets.  |
The DXCC card checkers.  |
Hendricks QRP kits.  |
T-shirt sales.  |
Doug Hendricks.  |
Rigol Instruments.  |
Hamfest ticket sales.  |
LED lights.  |
Alpine Antennas.  |
Innards of the Country Store.  |
Consignment sales.  |
Main hall.  |
Stuff for the ladies.  |
Art Bross of RF Stuff  |
Inside the main door.  |
Disaster Guy booth.  |
Grand prize barrel.  |
Main hall on Friday.  |
Another view.  |
And another.  |
Hamfest ticket sales.  |
DXCC and ARRL booths.  |
Filling out prize tickets.  |
Exhibitors.  |
Stuff to look at.  |
Hi-Tech Liquidators.  |
On The Go Embroidery.  |
DX Store.  |
Everyone has a bag.  |
Bud Young from Bud's Engraving.  |
The front row of the hall.  |
View from the front.  |
The aisles on Friday.  |
Rocket Science seminar.  |
Rick Tejera on satellite operations.  |
Rick Paquette seminar.  |
How to pass your ham tests.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Tailgating.  |
Keith Farley of the IOOKs  |
FlexRadio booth.  |
Row of exhibitors.  |
SDRstick software-defined radio.  |
ARRL booth.  |
FlexRadio stuff.  |
The antenna corner.  |
Soldering equipment from Fue.  |
Tables of stuff.  |
Quality Power Batteries.  |
Second Rocket Science seminar.  |
If you want to build a satellite.  |
Maxwell's Equations seminar.  |
Kristen McIntyre (K6WX).  |
Attentive audience.  |
About to take their ham test.  |
ARRL forms.  |
Balloon launch seminar.  |
Jack Crabtree (W7JLC) of ANSR.  |
Patrick Stoddard of AMSAT.  |
BeRadio and Beyond seminar.  |
Scotty Cowling (WA2DFI).  |
Lots of people in a seminar room.  |
But the chairs are uncomfortable.  |
Hearing a story.  |
Interesting mix of stuff.  |
Not exactly an electric scooter.  |
Tailgater area Saturday morning.  |
Unpacking for tailgating.  |
Hey, man, look at this.  |
Saturday morning tailgating.  |
Who needs a table?  |
Look like a fool with your stuff on ...  |
Antenna car.  |
Only eight antennas?  |
Setting up for balloon launch.  |
The hydrogen gas for the balloon.  |
What if my payload gets lost?  |
Tie those cables real well!  |
Packing payloads for ground impact.  |
There's a camera inside.  |
A student with his payload package.  |
The recovery parachute.  |
Downstream from the parachute.  |
Tie those cords correctly, or ...  |
Starting to fill the balloon.  |
After a couple of minutes.  |
Getting there ...  |
The crowd gathers in anticipation.  |
Balloon is now filled.  |
Getting into launch position.  |
Getting the payloads into position.  |
Making sure nothing is raveled up.  |
Pull the cords tight.  |
Are you ready?  |
Launch.  |
Away it goes.  |
Initial track was to the south.  |
And to the west slightly.  |
The control station is suddenly busy.  |
Projector screens showing information.  |
I gotta do what?  |
APRS shows balloon position.  |
Kate Hutton (K6HTN) giving seminar.  |
NTS seminar.  |
Iris Rosado on bug out bags.  |
Honestly, it was this big ...  |
Bob Shipton (K8EQC) talking balloon.  |
More balloon info.  |
Ticket sales slows on Saturday.  |
The main hall on Saturday.  |
Not as busy as Friday.  |
Meanwhile, the balloon control center.  |
Balloon position at near burst point.  |
The balloon tracking antenna.  |
Closeup of antenna.  |
From another angle.  |
The parking lot from 'balloon' hill.  |
FlexRadio SDR seminar.  |
Greg Jurrens (K5GJ).  |
APRS seminar.  |
The room was filled.  |
Omer Whipple (KI6JNY).  |
The Sheriff's comm trailer.  |
Getting slow Saturday afternoon.  |
Working on a website?  |
Designing high performance receivers.  |
Cornell Drentea (KW7CD).  |
This is how you do it.  |
Transmitter hunting seminar.  |
T-hunt antennas.  |
This how you find the fox.  |
Hospitality seminar.  |
D-Star seminar.  |
Tailgaters Saturday afternoon.  |
The main hall.  |
Ticket sales Saturday afternoon.  |
Putting those prize tickets in the barrel.  |
Cooking seminar for the ladies.  |
Are they listening?  |
Hospitality late in the day.  |
Still lots of cookies.  |
A Civil Air Patrol cadet.  |
The Buzzard cart making the rounds.  |
Getting slow at ticket sales.  |
Man, I'm tired!  |
Dan Henderson, from ARRL HQ.  |
The Evolution of Amateur Radio talk.  |
Dan had good attendance.  |
Earth-Moon-Earth bounce seminar.  |
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