Zero Retries 0175
2024-10-25 — Pacificon 2024 - A Good Time Was Had By All, Searching for a Contact at Kenwood Regarding the “2025 TM-D720”, MMDVM-TNC is (Kind of) Real
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Pacificon 2024 - A Good Time Was Had By All
I attended Pacificon 2024 for the first time and I really enjoyed the experience to the point of likely attending (and speaking) again in 2025. Being held in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, it was generally “techier” than most Amateur Radio conferences that I’ve attended lately and thus more fun for me personally. Keeping the entire conference with a large conference hotel was really great - pop up to the hotel room when needed, decent food (and drinks) onsite, etc. made for a really pleasant experience.
After Pacificon wrapped up on Sunday afternoon, my wife Tina and I, and our two new kittens Shreky and Fiona, all decided to cut our post-Pacificon activities in California short. We were all a bit fatigued from not great sleep, a cold or early flu or something (no, not COVID), and in general we didn’t do as good a job as usual at planning this trip, and thus headed back home to Bellingham on Monday after Pacificon.
Thus we spent most of this week driving back, and catching up on deferred chores at home, and resting and recuperating. Unfortunately, my long writeup of what I saw at Pacificon will have to wait until next week, including notes from my presentation there.
Fortunately, Josh Nass KI6NAZ of Ham Radio Crash Course YouTube channel was at Pacificon and did a video walkthrough of the exhibit area:
