Quartzfest 2019
Quartzfest 2019 Filed in Operating on Feb.13, 2019 Living in Arizona, it is questionable why I have never been to Quartzfest before. This is a week-long Ham Radio event held in January of every year. It takes place in the 14-day free camping BLM area south of Quartzite, Arizona. There are generally around 1000 hams that show up for this event, taking advantage of the low cost camping and abundant sunshine. There are various radio-related presentations each day, and a nightly camp fire to gather and swap stories at. QuartzFest 2019 This year, Tara & I got the opportunity to experience it for the first time. We traveled with some good friends of ours (Craig NV1O and his wife, Karen, Dave KB7KY and Sandy N7QZB) to the hamfest on Thursday, January 24th. Sharing Craig & Karen’s RV was a little cozy, but not uncomfortable. Craig brought an old Icom HF rig, with his Kenwood Automatic antenna tuner and a Windom Off Center Fed antenna...