Dayton Hamvention activities

• Contest Super Suite - May 13-16th, 7pm-??? at the Crowne Plaza, Dayton (Downtown), OH; 2nd floor - Miami Ballroom.

First Night - Hosted by Contest University (CTU). CTU Check-in from 8:00-10:00 PM. 10:30 PM Pizza Party sponsored by Contest University 2009. Web site at:
http://contestsupersuite.com

Second Night - Hosted by The Mad River Radio Club (MRRC), Frankford Radio Club (FRC) and North Coast Contesters (NCC). 50th Anniversary Celebration of CQ WorldWide Multi Multi Category. All are invited for the Special Celebration
Party in Miami and Beckel Ballrooms at 10:30 PM with
"Wings" from Quaker Steak and Lube! And pizza too!

Third Night - Hosted by The Mad River Radio Club (MRRC), Frankford Radio Club (FRC) and North Coast Contesters (NCC) with a 11:00 PM Pizza Party sponsored by the Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC).

Fourth Night - Hosted by The Mad River Radio Club (MRRC), Frankford Radio Club (FRC) and North Coast Contesters (NCC) with a 11:00 PM Pizza Party sponsored by the Yankee Clipper Contest Club (YCCC).

• DX HOSPITALITY SUITE. The Northern Ohio DX Association (along with Janeen Hire, W8ZET) will once again sponsor a Hospitality Suite at this year's Dayton Hamvention. It will be in Suite 1011 on the 10th Club Floor of the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings (Look for signs!). All DXers/Contesters are welcome. Munchies
and refreshments will be available. Come and meet the members and friends of NODXA.

• The 24th annual SWODXA DX Dinner will be Friday evening, May 15th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located in Dayton City Center. Their speakers will be John Stanley K4ERO, and Ruth Stanley WB4LUA. This husband and wife team travel the globe installing, maintaining and training personnel for religious international shortwave stations.
They have been to over 60 DXCC entities and operated from more than 12 of them. John has written many technical articles in the ham journals (with one in the April 2009 issue of QST), is a recipient of the 2007 Doug DeMaw Technical Excellence Award and is an ARRL Technical Advisor, having contributed many pieces to the ARRL Handbook.

• Topband Dinner on Friday evening, May 15th, at the Barnsider Restaurant, (Near Hamvention Arena), 5202 N. Main Street (Route 48 just north of Needmore Ave), Dayton, Ohio.

• The Contest Dinner will be held on Saturday night, May 16th, at 6:30 PM, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Official Contest Hotel), 5th and Jefferson Streets (Next to the Convention Center), Dayton (Downtown),
Ohio, in the VAN CLEVE BALLROOM. Details at: http://www.contestdinner.com

• ANTENNA, DX AND CONTEST FORUMS AT THE CONVENTION
May 15th
Antenna Forum at HARA Arena 2:30-5:00 p.m. Room 1 Moderator: Tim Duffy, K3LR
Eric Scace, K3NA - "Loop Array Runs Circles Around The Beverage"
Dr. DaveLeeson, W6NL - "Thoughts on Antenna Positions, Sloped Ground and Foregrounds",
Rob Sherwood, NC0B - "Effective Low Band Antenna for Small Lots"
Don Daso, K4ZA - "K4ZA's Tips, Tricks and Toolbox"

May 16th
Contest Forum at HARA Arena 9:15-11:15 a.m. Room 1 Moderator: Doug Grant, K1DG
Joerg Jaehrig, DJ3HW - "The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
Contest Program and WAE-60 Celebration"
Rol Anders, K3RA, and Vic Gauvin, K1PY - "A Tale of Two Winning Field Days - W3AO 23A and W2RDX 3A"
Pete Smith, N4ZR - "Skimmer - One Year Later"
Toni Linden, OH2UA - "Xtreme Contesting at Radio Arcala, OH8X"

May 16th
DX Forum 2:45-5:00 p.m. Room 1
Moderator: Jay Slough, K4ZLE. Assistant Moderators: Pete Meyer, N0FW and Tom Kissner, W8WGT
Simone Bizzarini, IZ0BTV - E44M PALESTINE DXpedition
Speakers TBD - K5D Desecheo Island DXpedition
Josh Fisher, W4WJF - VK9DWX Willis Island DXpedition
"Frosty" Frost, K5LBU - African DX Safaris

DX Forum sponsored by SW Ohio DX Association and Yaesu
Vertex. There will be a Yaesu FT-2000 with PEP raffled off
at the end of the DX forum. You do not have to be present to win.

Tickets for a chance on the FT-2000 are available at the
forum, or may be ordered at the same time you purchase your DX dinner tickets. SWODXA Web page at: http://www.swodxa.com

Source: OPDX