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Milton, Ontario (up there in Canada) had it’s annual hamfest recently. As usual, we had several people on the ground, reporting on all of the hamsexyness going on. Chuck Bravo sent us these photos of the event – enjoy.

A Van with a very rusty luggage rack and red lights…. don’t know if they flash, or just extentions of his brake lights.

These guys were the hit of the show. Not only did I get several e-mail regarding these nerds, they were also on the lips of everyone at the fest. A few of our contacts at the fest overheard people remarking “hey, did you check out the whackers?”. When you are ridiculed at a HAMFEST, you know you’ve probably got a problem. First of all, they’re all wearing identical cargo pants, like they were all cast members in some sort of gay militia film. One of them is wearing a very unconvincing “Toronto Fire” shirt, and yet another is wearing a white uniform shirt, very tight cargos and an Astro Saber II on his ass. A bunch of strutting, overweight, early-20 ham radio nerds were OBVIOUSLY not fooling anyone into thinking that they were actually firefighters, so one has to question: WHY?

A perrenial favourite at Canadian hamfests, strikingly without it’s enormously obscene yagi on the roof.

What is, and what will be.

The Hamdicapped Bus! Another favourite, and usual lurker of Canadian hamfests. We gotta get a shot of the guy who owns this. I’m envisioning overalls, and nothing else….

Yet another Hamsexy regular…

If any more photos of the Milton Hamfest exist, please send them to submissions@hamsexy.com. Until next time, leave the white blouse and cargopants at home.

It looks like Las Vegas has a new contender for the “most check-ins”…. Out of nowhere it seems that every ham in Halifax, Nova Scotia out there in Atlantic Canada signed into the net last night. For the first time we got some check-ins from Quebec, and the usual smattering from our usual stations. We’re starting to form a nice gang of ‘regulars’ on the net, which is great to see. We are saddended to learn that the sign proclaming the border of Oldham Nova Scotia has been stolen, so we cannot get a photo of it (me or Seth better not get the sign in the mail next week…….) Anyhow, here’s the checkin list (as best as I could read my own handwriting….)

KD7SGM Tom Las Vegas, Nevada
N7CSI Aaron Las Vegas, Nevada
KD7LVX Steven Las Vegas, Nevada
N0VSJ Colin Las Vegas, Nevada
N3TOY Las Vegas, Nevada
VE1BSG Matt Halifax, Nova Scotia
VE1KLR Martin Somewhere in Nova Scotia
VE1VAC Andrew Halifax, Nova Scotia
N9FSE Steve Milwuakee, Wisconsin
VE2XDG in Hull, Quebec
VE4UO Shaun in Winnipeg, Manitoba
VE7RXT Sean Chilliwack, British Columbia
VA1TX Bob in Halifax, Nova Scotia
VE1DRU Drew in Blockhouse, Nova Scotia
VE1DTY Terry in Halifax, Nova Scotia
N7CSI Aaron in Las Vegas, Nevada
VE1MCR Charles in Halifax, Nova Scotia
KA3IDN Jim in Las Vegas, Nevada
K7OOL Colin from Las Vegas, Nevada
N9JP?? from Wisconsin
VA3BU Dave from Brampton, Ontario
K9JAC John from Hubertis, Wisconsin
W9ORN Barb from Hubertis, Wisconsin
VE2NHN Norman from Hull, Quebec
VE3HAB Ron from Limoges, ON
KB6SIN Paul from Las Vegas
VE1MGA Mary from Oldham, NS
KE4NOY Matt from Murfreesboro, Tennessee

28 checkins total…. a very good turnout! Unfortunatley the live stream didn’t work last night, and the Echolink connection was also out of service… but it was a good net all around. Thanks to everyone who participated!!

Be sure to visit www.irlp.net for information on IRLP, and how to set up your very own node.

See you next week!!

Just a reminder – the Hamsexy net will once again go *LIVE* tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific, 0100 zulu) on IRLP node 9007.

Live stream (as always) will be at http://irlp.net:8000/hamsexy.m3u (thanks to Terry VE3NSV as always) – good for those who aren’t hams or don’t have access to an IRLP node. We will also be accepting check-ins from the netcheck-in thread.

Net control will be VE3HBD.

All hams from around the world are welcome to check in – it’s an informal “hey how are you doing” net.

ATTENTION ECHOLINK USERS: If you want to access the net through Echolink, connect to K5MLK-L or Node #207801 (thanks to Matt K5MLK for setting that up)

See you on the air!

A balloon launched at yesterday’s Great Plains Super Launch was on
page B3 of the Omaha World-Herald this morning.

Ten flights were launched yesterday between about 8:10 and 8:40am.
All payloads were recovered even though there were some challenges
due to payload and tracking problems.

Thanks to everyone who particiapted! Here’s the net check-in list:

VE3HBD in Toronto, Ontario (Net Control)
VE7RXT – Sean in Chilliwack British Columbia
VE3LT – Tom in Niagara Falls, Ontario
VE4UO – Shaun in Winnipeg, Manitoba
KD7LVX – Steven in Las Vegas, Nevada
W0NKA – Shane in Fairbault, Minnesota
N3TOY – Jamie in Las Vegas, Nevada
N0VSJ – Colin in Las Vegas, Nevada
KD7SGM – Tom in Las Vegas, Nevada
K8TEK – Tim in Ottawa, Ohio
VE3NSV – Terry in Kitchener, Ontario
VE1MGA – Mark in Oldham (!!) Nova Scotia
N9FSE – Steve in Millwaukee, Wisconsin
W9ORN – Barb in Hubertis, Wisconsin
VE3ESC – Rob in Toronto, Ontario
VE9ATQ – Lakeville, New Brunswick
VA3TSG – Ted in Whitby, Ontario
K9JAC – Jack in Hubertis, Wisconsin
KC0URM – Nick in Fairbault, Minnesota
N0PQK – John in Fairbault, Minnesota
KB9KHF – Bill in Chicago, Illinois
W1NAU – Timpthy in Boston, Massatwoshits
W0ODS – Jeff in Coggon, Iowa
W0AMY – Amy in Coggon, Iowa
KD6IDN – Paul in Las Vegas, Nevada
KG9GP – Roger in New Berlin, WI
VE3ESC – Rob in Toronto, Ontario
VE3XLS – Mike in Toronto, Ontario
VA3BU – Dave in Brampton, Ontario
VE3ECM – Richard in New York City, New York

And, of course, Slimdog

Sin City was well represented this net – thanks guys! Get back to the tables, and get the hell off the radio.

If you want to see a map showing all of the check-ins that we’ve had on the hamsexy Net since we started, check out the hamsexy net map page. I’m working on making it a little more user friendly….

Just a reminder.. the Hamsexy Net is on tonight. Be sure to drop in at IRLP node 9007 and join us.

For those who aren’t near an IRLP node or don’t have a ham ticket, be sure to listen to the Hamsexy Net live stream (thanks to Terry VE3NSV): http://irlp.net:8000/hamsexy.m3u

Net control will be Bryan VE3HBD. See you tonight at 9pm eastern!!

If you want to check into the net tonight via the net, feel free to visit the Net check-in thread on the Hamsexy Forums. we’ll be sure to get your checkin read out over the air.

Got some assorted images in the Hamsexy mail sack….

This image comes from Nigel VE3ID from Toronto. All of the backpack radio guys at Dayton got together and had a group photo taken. Look at some of those antennae….. I guess having to go indoors or any low hanging wires would ruin their hamfest.

Check out this van submitted to us by Justin KB3JUV. Check out the red light on the luggage racks, the Skywarn decal on the door, the big letters on the back gate (which probably say “STORM CHASER” or something) and the pointless aenometer on the roof (I don’t understand!! The windspeed is always the same as the speed I’m driving!!)

EDIT: link fixed!! forgot to upload photos to the server.. d’oh!