Visalia Contesters Dinner

Soon it's time again for the Visalia DX Convention. I think that anyone with serious approach to amateur radio should go there at least once but I know there are quite a few who attend this gathering regularly. I went to Visalia last year and it was actually my first ever ham convention. I simply don't like crowds and I can't memorize too many faces and too many call signs without taking pictures and writing down the names and the calls. Pictures, I took a few but I couldn't possibly write down all the calls. I thought I could tantalizingly show some of my last year's pictures from the Contesters Dinner. Imagine, if you have any sense for contests, to sit at the same table with Trey N5KO, Fred K3ZO and Bob K3EST. It is possible, at Visalia.

The dinner started off with a mock-up pile-up.

The Contest Club Dinner took place in the Birch and Laurel Rooms of Visalia Holiday Inn Hotel. This year it will be on Friday April 20, but you can't buy the ticket at the door. Check the web page http://www.ncdxc.org/Ncdxc/convention/ContestDinner.htm for information.

Some people have fun others are serious. But if you still hesitate and don't know if this is really something for you, then you' re probably not serious about contesting. Contesting is also people, not only points, multipliers and scores. Visalia is where the cream of contesters (and DXers) come and exchange the views, opinions, advice and visions for the future.

Henryk Kotowski SM0JHF