The 2007 ARRL Southwest Division Convention was held September 7-9 in
Torrance, California. I drove out with Larry, W7LB, and my son Ryan,
KR7YAN.
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Exhibit Hall on Friday night. On Saturday the hall was very full most of the day.
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M2 antennas had some new "entry-level" beams on display. I picked up a 3-element 6-meter beam, seen in the upper left of this picture.
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KR7YAN in front of the Yaesu booth. They gave us hats and maps.
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Icom had the largest exhibit booth. They gave us pigs and maps.
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Flex Radio was showing off the new 5000 rig. Larry has one on order.
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Clint, K6LCS, gave a talk on Working AO-51 With an HT.
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Me and Ryan listening to AO-51 with our Arrow Antenna and VX-7R.
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We were on the top of the parking garage with about 30 other people and 3 arrow antennas in use.
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Bob N6OPR gave the 10-10 talk.
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The 10-10 Booth saw a lot of activity all weekend.
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Chip Margelli helped with the Heil Sound seminar.
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Ryan working W1AW/6.
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He made several contacts on 20 meters.
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The AMSAT Booth had plenty of goodies.
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The ARRL Forum was well attended.
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Joe N3SRU and Ron W7AI partying it up.
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Me, Ryan and Larry W7LB at the Saturday evening banquet.
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Ron, Joe, and Joe's XYL at the banquet.
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Campaigning for Vice-Director and Director were Tom Fagan, WB7NXH, and Carl Gardenias WU6D. Tom was kind enough to drive a new antenna home for me.
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Dick N6AA opens up the banquet ceremonies.
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The banquet speaker was an earthquake scientist. Watch out, the big one is coming.
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Ryan, Larry, and I were inducted into the Royal Order of the Wouff Hong at a secret midnight ceremony.
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The hotel was quite nice.
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As usual I spent an hour waiting to see if I won a prize, as usual without success.
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