[HCDX] Summary of the 14th Annual Madison-Milwaukee DX Get-together

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Typically the weather on August 18 should behave  as if it were a Dog Day of  
Summer. Instead, in Madison, Wisconsin on  the 2007 Saturday labeled with 
that  
date, the temperature climbed no  higher than 62 degrees. However, cool 
weather  was not the major  handicap faced by attendees to the 14th annual  
Madison-Milwaukee  Get-together for DXers and Radio Enthusiasts. Rain was. It 
started 
raining  late in the morning, and never let up until midway through the   
following day. From mid-evening on it poured, as over the weekend Madison  
had  5.5 
inches of rain. The presence of lightning rendered useless the  temporary  
antenna farm constructed for receiver demonstrations.  Because of the 
weather,  
activities were confined to the indoors. This  was probably for the best 
anyway,  
since mosquitoes, taking advantage  of a damp and warm August, had 
successfully  
breeded themselves into a  large bloodthirsty horde.

So how was the Madison-Milwaukee DX  Get-together anyway? The answer:  
TERRIFIC! This was certainly the  biggest and very possibly the best of our 
DX  
Get-togethers. Conditions  did not interfere with what has always been the 
prime  
mission of the  Madison-Milwaukee: a gathering of DXers for conversation and  
 
camaraderie, renewing old friendships and making new ones.  The  three  
attendees 
who were here for the fourteenth time, the 21 who came  to their very  first 
GTG, and everyone in between will long remember  this event for this  reason. 
A 
good time was had by all.

Many  other fond memories will long live about this GTG. In attendance was  
Ed  
Dvorak, at 95 by far the most senior ever to attend the GTG, and quite  a  
radio man in his own right (for many years his hobby was fixing  radios, 
charging 
little more than the cost of parts for his efforts). The  optional trip to an 
antique radio museum in Sun Prairie introduced goers not  only to many rare  
radios, but also to the expertise of collector and  radio historian Stan 
Broome.  The weather forced the annual group photo  indoors, necessitating 
that two 
photos be taken, half of the attendees at a  time. The dinner was its usual 
good fare, served up by the fine staff of the  Esquire Club. Following the 
dinner, nine attendees were given certificates  for attending at least 10 
Madison-Milwaukee DX  Get-togethers. The  annual door prize drawing ended the 
dinner 
program, with  prizes  provided by Universal Radio, Scott Fybush, WIBA News 
Talk 
1310 and  WQMX  FM 94.9. The night session included the annual cake cutting  
ceremony, and then on to a radio display (in lieu of demonstrations,  
cancelled by 
the outdoor lightning display) and plenty more conversation and  camaraderie.

This year's attendance was a record 49 DXers, breaking the  old record of 41  
set two years ago (with family members and friends,  total attendance was 59, 
 
also a record). Hosts Bill and Nina Dvorak  would like to thank all of those 
who  attended, and invite all of those  who couldn't make it to be sure to 
come 
to a  future event. They would  also like to thank Ira Ebeling, Mark Taylor, 
Jim 
Green and Dave Legler for  special help leading up to and on the day of the  
event.

Next  year the 15th annual Madison-Milwaukee Get-together for DXers and  
Radio  
Enthusiasts will take place in the Milwaukee area with Tim Noonan hosting.  
For further information, and to get on the list for advanced notification,  
please contact Tim at _dxing2@xxxxxxxx (mailto:dxing2@xxxxxxx)  .

73     Bill Dvorak      Madison  WI   Co-founder and Alternate Year Host   
Madison-Milwaukee Get-together for DXers and Radio Enthusiasts 



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