Plano Centre posted? Ham-Com this weekend.

[txjim42]

Heading to Plano for Ham-Com this weekend. Anyone know if the Plano Centre is posted? My site/interweb searching yielded nothing one way or another.

HamCom is held at:
Plano Centre
2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX 75074

Thanks,
Jim

[Beiruty]

Heading to Plano for Ham-Com this weekend. Anyone know if the Plano Centre is posted? My site/interweb searching yielded nothing one way or another.

HamCom is held at:
Plano Centre
2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX 75074

Thanks,
Jim

Posted or otherwise, you need to know if there are school-related events and training in the center. I do not go there armed for that reason. School kids may be competing for their school league.

[Moby Duck]

School kids may be competing for their school league.

A ham radio convention be not a sporting event.

[LSL]

73 and 88 to hams who compete in World Radio Sport - an amateur activity.

[KC5AV]

I carried there last year. It was not posted. Sadly, I'm not able to make it this year.

[XDgal]

No, it's not posted. Even if it was, it is city owned and would be unenforceable. I just got back from there and carried the whole time. Not a problem. Carried last year and the year before, too! Had a great time, saw lots of radio goodies, and old friends. And, I managed to save some money for the gun show tomorrow!

[Keith B]

Was just there and no postings.

[XDgal]

Wow, Keith, if I had known you were there I would have said howdy! I was wondering if there were any other forum members there.

[Keith B]

I was the extremely handsome fellow wearing a black shirt, khaki cargo shorts and sandals. Did you see me?

[WildBill]

I was the extremely handsome fellow wearing a black shirt, khaki cargo shorts and sandals.

What a ham!

[JCole]

Am I the only one who was a little disappointed to find out this event was dedicated to radios, and not cured pork products?

[03Lightningrocks]

Am I the only one who was a little disappointed to find out this event was dedicated to radios, and not cured pork products?

All I know is they screw up my weekly waffle house visit. I was thinking about putting a sign at the entrance to the parking lot telling them there are free donuts at Plano Centre

[n5wd]

Am I the only one who was a little disappointed to find out this event was dedicated to radios, and not cured pork products?

Yep, you are.

Ham-Com is an annual rite-of-passage for hams in the area, but between the wife's broken car (anyone looking to buy a Ford Freestyle?) and babysitting the grandkids this morning, alas... I'm sitting here listening to everyone that went talk on the radio about their swag and treasures, hoping that 6 meters opens up for the contest in a little while.

(sigh)

For you non-hams... that's equivalent to saying that your next-door neighbor had a 1911 in great shape to give away, but you were just five minutes too late.

[txjim42]

Dad and I made it out there on Friday and had a great time. Ran into some old and new friends. Sure wish I could've made back out today.

I understand that they had a power-outage today that nearly shut them down today. That would've been terrible, but glad it all worked out.

Didn't spot any 30.06 signs, just lots of "shiny" objects.

The camera-style vests were very popular FWIW... Accessorized with the appropriate vendor, event and call-sign buttons, radio gear, and non-tactical looking clothing it screamed "radio-geek" more than "gun" to me.

[jimlongley]

I tailgated until a little after noon, wouldn't have stayed that long but a ham said he was coming back "probably" to buy the beam antenna I was selling. I got tired of waiting. Sold enough to make me happy.