Rochester Hamfest turf war - now there's only one!

A follow-up to last week's story on the 2009 Rochester New York Hamfest.

As of Tuesday, January 27th, it appears that there is now only one organization now planning to hold the event. That’s the Rochester Amateur Radio Association which says that it is a 75-year sponsor of the Rochester Hamfest and now appears to have possession of the www.rochesterhamfest
.org website.

As late as Sunday, January 24th, typing in that URL would have taken you to the website operated by a radio ham named Harold Smith, K2HC, who was a longtime organizer of the Rochester event. As pointed out in the Syracuse Post
Standard by columnist Lee Badman, KI2K, that web site, www.Rochesthamfest.org was claiming that the hamfest would be at the traditional site.

But, the Rochester Amateur Radio Association via its www.rochesterham.org also claimed that it would host the official event. It said that it was moving the hamfest to a new location at Rochester's Barnard Carnival Grounds and shortening the hamfest down to one day.

By Tuesday, some sort of accommodation seemingly had been reached. Now, typing in either URL's taking a net surfer to the Rochester Amateur Radio Association's website. Hopefully, that will put the matter permanently to
rest.

Source: ARNewsline™