Thought you guys might find this interesting from a microwave PR point of view. The IMS is the International; Microwave Symposium, and is a 'reely big shew' in attendance. Great demos! Super examples of homebrew gear! Could we do something like that for any non-ham conferences around here? I'm thinking that preaching to someone besides the choir might be a good thing to generate interest in hamming and uWaves. Regards, Tom Holmes, N8ZM Tipp City, OH EM79xx -----Original Message----- From: microwave-bounces@lists.valinet.com [mailto:microwave-bounces@lists.valinet.com] On Behalf Of Tony Long Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:28 PM To: microwave@lists.valinet.com Subject: [Mw] Hams at the 2010 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Last night at the IEEE IMS in Anaheim, CA around 15 hams showed up for the Ham Radio Social with microwave/millimeterwave radios to demonstrate to conference goers, many of whom are hams themselves. I brought my 10/24/47 GHz setup and had quite a few interesting conversations with a whole bunch of people, and it was really a neat opportunity to show amateur equipment at one of the most presitgious microwave conferences around. While the free food and alchohol was certainly the main attraction for many people, there were several hundred attendees who got to see the amateur side of microwaves and at least a few seemed interested enough in what we are doing that they may get involved themselves. I took a short video (my apologies for the lack of editing) of the various setups and people talking about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tpvfi2mcw -Tony KC6QHP _______________________________________________ Microwave mailing list microwave@lists.valinet.com http://www.valinet.com/mailman/listinfo/microwave