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Hamfests Saturday, October 2, West Friendship, MD CARA-FEST, Howard County Fairgrounds http://www.carafest.org/ 410-552-2652 SATURDAY HAMFEST! Sunday, October 17 Sellersville, PA RF Hill ARC Hamfest. Sellersville Fire House, Main St., Bethlehem Pike. Cathy Soete 215-723-7294. Map and hamfest flyer http://rfhill.ampr.org Sunday, October 31 . Westminster, MD. CCARC Hamfest, Carroll County Agricultural Center. Steve, N3SB, 410-876-1482 http://qis.net/~k3pzn (145.41/R) VE Exams 2nd Saturday, 1 PM, Davidsonville, by AARC. Register 12 noon. Bob, AA3RR, 410-437-8193 3rd Saturday, 9 AM, Laurel, by LARC, 384 Main St. John Creel, WB3GXW, 301-572-5124. 4th Tuesday, 6 PM, Linthicum. At Historical Electronics Museum. Harold, WB4OGP, 410-757-0493(h); 410-712-6829(w) BARC VE Exams 12360 Owings Mills Blvd. Owings Mills Register at 1 pm, exams at 2 pm Saturdays: September 4, November 6, December 4 Sunday: October 3 Pre-registration preferred, walk-ins permitted Call Rusty, N3WKE, 410-247-0578 NOTICE: If you know of any hamfests or VE Exams not listed here, please let us know by sending us an email ... Thanks!

ads are free and get results! Send ad to: BRATS, P.O. Box 5915 Baltimore, MD 21282-5915, or email to mayerzimmerman@netzero.com FOR SALE: The famous W3GXK low-band station Confirmed over 250 Countries, WAS on 10, 15, and 20 meters! ICOM 730 xcvr (fan needs some work), ICOM PS-15 power supply, MFJ 481 Grandmaster memory keyer, Bencher BY2 silver paddle, MFJ 900 econo-tuner, Heath HM102 low band power/swr meter, Heath HD1426 relative field strength meter, Heath 24-hour station clock. National NC-183 shortwave receiver (with ham bands). Make me a reasonable offer (prefer package deal) Mayer, W3GXK, 410-786-6839 or email mayerzimmerman@netzero.com Also FOR SALE: The famous W3GXK Antenna Farm. You take down. Some may already be sold: HyGain TH3MK3S (stainless steel hardware) triband beam; Alliance HD 73 rotor, South River 10-foot tripod with some rust (no extra charge for the rust ;-), HyGain V2S 2 meter ground plane, HyGain 14 AVQ vertical for 10-40 meters (worked 4x4 on 40 meter CW with 50 watts), old coax, Contact Mayer, W3GXK as listed above. Thanks! AMSAT-VK HF Net 2nd Sunday each month November through March 0900 UTC 7.068 MHz April through October 1000 UTC 3.685 MHz ATTENTION: if you do NOT want your ad to run again, please send me an email to that effect. Thanks! mayerzimmerman@netzero.com

Stanley L. Burghardt, W0IT, SK

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