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[IRCA] FORT WAYNE DX CONVENTION: Schedule (almost) finalized
Hello from Fort Wayne, where your hosts are settling in and getting
everything ready for a great convention experience starting in just a
few days!
Here's an updated schedule of events, with some new tours and details.
If you STILL haven't made plans yet and want to come, there may be a
limited number of hotel rooms still available in the additional block we
reserved after the initial block sold out. We have ONE ticket remaining
for the baseball game Friday night (we had to purchase a minimum 25
tickets to get the group rate.)
If you are expecting a pickup or dropoff at the airport, train station
or bus terminal and have not yet CONFIRMED it with me or Lisa
(lisa@xxxxxxxxxx), please do so ASAP!
If you will have a vehicle in Fort Wayne and will be able to make some
seats available for tours, please let me know. I have a minivan that
seats six (plus driver), but we'll need more than that for some of these
events.
Here's what we have so far as a schedule, with some changes still
possible as we get closer.
FRIDAY JULY 10
10:30 AM - Optional tour for early arrivals: Sweetwater (sweetwater.com)
is a Fort Wayne-based music and electronics behemoth that started in the
1970s as a mobile recording studio in a van. It's now one of Fort
Wayne's biggest employers, and we've arranged a special tour of its
state-of-the-art recording studios, warehouse and retail location on US
30 just a few minutes from the hotel. Please meet in front of the hotel
at 10:15 if you're interested in going to Sweetwater!
12:00 PM - Convention room opens, registration opens
12:30 PM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART I
(Pizza and drinks will be provided during the sessions)
Mark Durenberger: Desert DXPeditions 2014-2015/Neil Kazaross on antennas
"NUTS" and volts":
Brian May TV data, David Yocis request: Manipulating the SDR,
Mike Lantz on Miami Pirates, TBA: RDS and I-D signalling
3 PM - STATION TOURS:
We will tentatively be visiting the brand new tower of WLDE 101.7 on the
east side of Fort Wayne. We will also at least drive out to the WOWO
1190 site in Roanoke, Indiana, and I am still hoping to arrange an
inside tour, pending the availability of station staff.
5:45 PM - Depart the hotel for Parkview Field, for those attending the
Fort Wayne TinCaps game. The convention room will remain open for
conversation and hangout time for those not going to the game
The game starts at 7, but our suite will be open starting at 5:30 and
the buffet dinner will be served starting at 6. If you ordered a ticket,
you should have received an email from Lisa with details today. Your
ticket and wristband will be in your registration packet when you arrive.
~10 PM (after the game) - LATE NIGHT RADIO CHAT
SATURDAY JULY 11
9 AM - IRCA business meeting
9:30 AM - EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, PART II
Nick Hall-Patch/Bill Whitacre-Parallel DXPeditions
Carl Luetzelschwab Solar impact on Propagation
NHP, CL, MD Noise reduction---Optional "panel"
12:30 PM - Depart the hotel for lunch somewhere nearby
-or -
12:30 PM - FUN TOUR - DeBrand Chocolate factory
Contact Lisa (lisa@xxxxxxxxxx) if you're interested in joining her for a
visit to Fort Wayne's delicious DeBrand Chocolate, which has grown into
one of the nation's premiere specialty chocolatiers.
2:30 PM - STATION TOUR - Adams Radio Group
The Adams Radio Group recently purchased and reconfigured two Fort Wayne
radio clusters, combining its stations in the facility on Lower
Huntington Road that has been the WGL 1250 transmitter site since the
1940s and has been the WGL studios since 1972. The facility is now home
to one AM transmitter and studios for two AM stations (WGL 1250 and WLYV
1450) along with six FM stations (WBTU 93.3, WXKE 96.3, W245BL "B96.9",
W277AK "Great Country 103.3," WWFW 103.9, WJFX 107.9).
4 PM - STATION TOUR - WOWO/Federated Media
The facility at 2915 Maples Road was originally constructed in 1947 as
the transmitter site of WKJG 1380. It is still the WKJG transmitter
site, and now also houses studios for all of Federated Media's stations
in the market, including the legendary WOWO 1190.
6 PM - Cocktail hour begins
6:30 PM - BANQUET AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS
As radio approaches its centennial, our keynote speaker this year will
take us back to the earliest days of radio listening in Fort Wayne.
Betty Stein is a prominent local resident and columnist for the Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel. Born nine years before WOWO even signed on the air,
she'll share her memories of radio and television, including some of her
own early appearances on WOWO. Mrs. Stein received an honorary Ph.D.
last year, at age 97, from St. Francis University in Fort Wayne, where
she earned her master's degree. She still works one day a week at
Memorial Park Middle School. (In addition to her other accomplishments,
she also just happens to be Lisa's grandmother.)
8:30 PM - NRC business meeting
9 PM - AUCTION
SUNDAY JULY 12
10:30 AM - The Great DX Quiz
12:00 PM - Convention room closes
(Depending on interest, there *may* be an additional station tour or two
in the early afternoon, or at least a drive by the TV tower farm just up
the road from the hotel. We could also do this Friday morning if enough
people are already in town who are interested.)
Any questions? Drop me a line and I'll do my best to answer.
See you in WOWO-land!!
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