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- September 16, 2008: ... and we're back
- September 7, 2008: 1st annual Butler Swap Fest
- June 26, 2008: Ham Radio Happenings In the Upper Ohio Valley 6-25-08
- May 15, 2008: Dayton 2008 drive in and check-in
Archive for September 2008
Why you should wear a hard hat doing tower work.
September 23, 2008 by kb8sfc.
Here is a classic video I’ve been wanting to see again, I think it speaks for itself…
Thanks to Shawn KB8UDE for the clip.
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… and we’re back
September 16, 2008 by kb8sfc.
After a billing snafu and 3 weeks in 404 land, along with many calls to 1&1, my blog is back, I’ll leave out the details for now until this gets fully resolved. Below you may find some “lost entires” from while my blog was in 404 land.
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1st annual Butler Swap Fest
September 7, 2008 by kb8sfc.

I attended the 1st annual Butler Swapfest today and I have to give it a good review. The Butler Hamfest was greatly missed last year and I was more than willing to attend this year.
It wasn’t without it’s problems but for the first year of an event in a new venue it went rather well. The area for tailgating was entirely too small and a lot of us were forced to tailgate in the parking area but at least the tailgating was free.
Of course it wasn’t without the usual cheapskates the worst was of course “Disco Stu” (as far as I know not his real name). He offered me $35 less than asking price on an antenna I was selling and when I tried to meet him $10 above his offer he just barked his bid at me again. Needless to say after going back and forth like that 2 times I told him “NO!”. Good thing he left the next thing out of my mouth would be to get away from me and quit wasting my time. This isn’t my first encounter with “Disco Stu” . He dresses like someone out of the late mid 70’s , some times with gold chains , shirt unbuttoned and chest hair showing. He wants to pay 1970’s prices and I can’t tell if he is wearing a hair piece or a bad comb over. I’ve never sold anything to this guy and probally never will. I doubt next time I’ll even bother to waste my time with him other than to tell him to move along and I know he is a HUGE cheapskate and not worth the time.
Shawn showed up around noon as I was getting ready to leave, it had started to rain and by 12:30 Des and I left and headed to Ci Ci’s Pizza Buffet in Butler.
I snapped a few pics on my way to drop off the tickets and posted them to flikr
I had fun and will be back next year.
73 DE KB8SFC
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