Alamogordo Amateur Radio Club Serving Hams In The Tularosa Basin And Around The World And Beyond AARCs' 38th Annual Hamfest 31 Aug Labor Day Weekend 2024 from 7am to 3pm-ish (depends upon presentations) Free admissions, donations from local and Ham related vendors for door prize drawings throughout the day Morning brew and eats by club for donations, for lunch support your local vendors. Plenty of parking at the Otero County Fairgrounds, RV's welcome but no RV hookups, dump station on site Hamfest is ARRL approved and small listed nonprofit (needing all the help we can get) AARC is also looking for items to be donated as door prizes throughout the day "Give a big thank you to those who donated to our past Hamfests." You keep us afloat We would like to list your logo on our website to show donor support and advertise your business during the event Main prizes and Ht drawings are normally purchased by the club, (donations accepted) must be present for all except 1st prize 1st FT-710 AESS 2nd FTM-6000R 3rd Mini 1.3 OLED ZUMspot Kit 4th DM-30TR $1.00 Drawing for FT65 HT Main Prize drawing tickets $8.00 mail in post dated before 24 Aug (eligible for Pre-Registration Prize drawing of $50.00) $10.00 at the door, Swap Tables $15.00 with one chair Any profits made from our event goes back into paying our bills, insurance, repeater systems maintenance, classes and our other public activities We are also looking for folks/groups who would like to do short presentations Testing will be conducted on site around 9am-ish (depends upon the VE and VEC's) Apologize up front for any doubling up on email requests Check us out at http://www.qsl.net/k5lrw/ and on FB at Alamogordo Amateur Radio Club NM Our mails; KI5RUS Rusty rjaskolo(a)gmail.com (2024 AARC Pres and Hamfest Chair) KB7SQF Rick rick(a)nmex.com Street mailing address for packages please use; Russell Jaskolowski 1107 Hendrix Ave Alamogordo, NM 88310 AARC mail box is; AARC Hamfest 2024 12 Main St #383 LaLuz, NM 88337 Rusty's cell 575-491-3631 Thank you all for supporting our small club serving the community Rick KB7SQF 2024 AARC Director Hamfest Committee Member 73