www.floydfolks.org & http 1-540-808-2880 -floydlcfgroup@gmail – PO box 179 Floyd,Virginia 24091 ROANOKE VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB held it’s annual Ham Fest on Saturday August 1st, 2009, at the William Bird Middle School in Vinton, Virginia. The Ham Fest was a real success for the Club. It’s a lot of work to run a Ham Fest, but Karen KI4GOT, John K4JKA, and Ron AB4A and a lot of other fine people had a hand and did a good job. We had more outside tailgaters/venders then last year and I think that we had more people to attend. We had inside venders that were regulars and also some new ones, I would like to thank them for coming. There was everything from tube boat anchors to modern surface mount radios, and also from antennas to zener diodes. People were having fun buying what they needed and what they didn’t need. I bought a new sound card interface from Tigertronics for my exploration into the digital modes on HF, and some PL-259’s, a couple of M connectors and I guess some other small stuff. Hope to see everybody there next year. CONTACT INFO The contact info is Russ Abbey kg4mav@arrl.net 540-651-4072 we meet on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at the Red Cross in downtown Roanoke, VA We have a 2 meter FM net on the 146.985 tone of 107.2 repeater every Wednesday evening at 8pm threw the facilities of the W4CA, Roanoke Valley Amateur Radio Club. We have VE testing every 3rd Sunday afternoon at 2pm at the Red Cross. We also have classes starting in September 8th, 2009 …

Come along with the publishers of National Communications magazine for a tour of the Grays Lake Hamfest in September of 2005. The Hamfest was held at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grays Lake, Illinois. For more information on Nat-Com, visit the web site at www.nat-com.org or by calling 937-299-7226.