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January 17th First Best HamFest of the Year !!! Winterfest 2026

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WARC's annual First Best HamFest of the Year !!!
Amateur Radio Flea Market Opens 9AM to 1PM.
Table Setup starts at 7am.
Walk-ins $5. Tables $15.
Raffle Prizes include High Power HT's, and gift certificates

Whitman Knights of Columbus
Route 18, 1195 Bedford St. Whitman MA 02382

Checks for tables can be mailed to:
Whitman Amateur Radio Club
PO Box 48
Whitman MA 02382

HAM=Have Another Meal

Before and after the first best Ham Fest of the Year The Whitman Flea
Whitman Knights of Columbus Route 18, 1195 Bedford St. Whitman MA 02382
https://www.wa1npo.org/WF/WinterFestFlyer2026.pdf <--This years flyer.

8am Breakfast at the Cowbell Cafe 25 South Ave, Whitman, MA 02382
https://www.cowbellscafe.com/

12noon Lunch at Grill 151 151 Main St, Weymouth, MA 02188
https://grille151.com/ (I will make a reservation if we can get some sort of count)

Talk in on Marshfield VHF P25 for the cool kids 900 will be monitored as well it will be Whacktastic!
 
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I'm tentatively in. This is such a fun event. And it really feels like the halfway mark on Winter. Good weather comes soon after.
 
This was , as always, such a fun event. So great to see everyone and meet a few faces too. Lots of stories to tell, items sold, etc.
Breakfast and Lunch were awesome. Thanks John K1BOS for all his effort in getting our lunch coordinated.
 
W1KNE said:
This was , as always, such a fun event. So great to see everyone and meet a few faces too. Lots of stories to tell, items sold, etc.
Breakfast and Lunch were awesome. Thanks John K1BOS for all his effort in getting our lunch coordinated.
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Yes, thanks John as always for being the Social Director and coordinating both Breakfast and Lunch for not only the SNE Community, but also the Radio/Amateur community

Nice to finally put some faces to the names, we've chatted with over the years
 
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It was a fun event and I enjoyed meeting up with old and new ham friends. The discussions brought back memories of the old days, when everything was analog and P25 was just a gleam in APCO's eye. The meetups at the flea market made the time go by. I think there were 16 for lunch.

I got an Uniden BC-15 speaker for $10. I noticed several P25 scanners priced in the mid $100s. I felt nostalgic after returning home and hooked up my Uniden BCD996T scanner. It still works. I have zip files from almost 20 years ago of UASD files I got from other users. I think the board had a file section where users could share the files. The last date I found for my BCD996T files was October 2010.

I still use a GRE PSR-600 to listen to the locals and the airport in my kitchen. I liked the control channel dump capability. I last updated the Win500 file in 2017. I still have my Win500 registration and should try to get it running again. It appears the last version on Win500 was v208 from 2015.
 
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