Geek Festival
Saturday morning, March 1st, dawned bright and chilly. Rob Marshall, KI4MCW; Tray Murphy, N4PAT; Cas Grys, KF6CUE, and Debbie Grys, KG6GCQ; Peter Martin, KF4VIZ; George Bean, AI4VJ; Mike Baker, N4LSP; Robert Orndorf, W4BNO converged at the Science Museum of Virginia for the G33K FSTVL v.2. Together we set up a two table display in the lobby of the Imax Theater at SMV. The event highlights cool geek hobbies, and RATS highlighted our repeater system, and the IRLP and APRS networks. Here are some pictures from the event.
Front to rear: Corner of the laptop playing back ARRL ham radio DVD, Yaesu FT-100D with LDG tuner on 440MHz, DVM monitoring battery voltage - all the radios were run from batteries, Icom 746Pro on 146MHz, Tray's "7th grade science fair" display boards, another laptop with GoogleEarth showing real-time IRLP connections, GPS receivers, 2 Panasonic Toughbooks with UI-View and aprs.fi, and the rest of the display. Peter Martin, KF4VIZ is setting up one of the APRS computers.
Rob Marshall, KI4MCW, sets up the Icom 746Pro. It was used on 2M IRLP to various nodes during the day.
Debbie Grys, KG6GCQ, talks to visitors about ham radio. She has a real way with people, and reeled them in!
Mike Baker, N4LSP, George Bean, AI4VJ and Rob, KI4MCW take a break from the action. Even without crowds trampling the displays, we certainly had a great time fellowshiping with each other!
Cas Grys, KF6CUE, with Art Williams, W4TY, of RARC, and Robert Orndorf, W4BNO discuss IRLP at the event.
