On behalf of Dave, a followup to our Nashville Mini Maker Faire presentation organized by Dave Matthews, KI4PSR.
The Maker Faire ( https://nashville.makerfaire.
Dave had help from:
Paul, KN4BTJ
Mike, KJ4TOP
Janise, KK4HTA
David, KK4CQD
Laura and Joe Marler lent their excellent and easy-to-use tent for the occasion.
The primary focus was Dave presenting the BitX-40 rig which is a perfect radio for a maker faire. Dave talked about the radio and background of the project and showed off the components and a number of builds and pictures of the wide range of housings developed by WCARES members. He managed to give away a good number of 3D-printed BitX mic housings he’d printed – blue was so popular he spent Saturday night printing more for Sunday.
Mike and Paul demonstrated building a BitX while Janise headed up promoting the ARRL and WCARES.
We had a steady stream of interested visitors both days including about 26 hams and a number of WCARES members.
Presenting the BitX and promoting amateur radio, the ARRL and WCARES together worked well. We were able to attract visitors with a wider range of interests and questions, from hardware to software, questions about amateur radio and licensing as well as ARES and emergency and community service.
We also showed off the NVIS antenna build that Cliff, N4CCB organized – together with the BitX-40, a number of visitors could see that it was easy and inexpensive to Get On The Air!
We all had a great time and look forward to doing similar events in the future.
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73,
David
KK4CQD
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