Hamfesters Radio Club Hamfest Information
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Hamfest - Fleamarket - Commercial
Vendors - Computer stuff
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Hamfesters
Amateur Radio Club
75th Annual Hamfest
Sunday August
10, 2008
Gates open at
6 AM, commercial exhibit buildings open at 8 AM
Will
County Fairgrounds
VE
Testing on site
(testing times: 8 to 10:30 am)
- $500 Grand Prize - 1 pm drawing
(winner need not be present to win)
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Tickets
$6 advance (with double stub !)
Order by mail-click
here
$8 at the gate (with single stub)
$15 per indoor Reserved Table
(see order form
below)
Children under 12 FREE
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Will County Fair Grounds
Peotone, Illinois
I57 south of Chicago, exit 327
east 1 mile to the Fair Grounds
Talk in: 146.52 simplex
GPS location:
North 41 19.5'
West 87 48.0'
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General Information
- Admission at gate $8.00
- Advance ticket purchase $6.00 (this includes double
stub for prizes!) via mail or purchase them
at the Hamfesters meetings
- Free Parking - over 35 acres !
- VE Testing 8am to 10:30 am
- Over night parking permitted
- Refreshments are available
- Amateur radio and computer equipment
- 14,400 sq feet of air conditioned
exhibit space
- Outdoor flea market locations free (admission ticket
required)
- Limited electricity in some covered sheds
- Clean restrooms !
- More info: Contact Kerry Nelson, AA9SB kw_nelson@earthlink.net
Phone: 708/335-4574 email: hamfest@hamfesters.org
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Click on form at right to view full size coupon,
then print and send in for table registration
Notice: three document formats are provided to make it easy for you.
Select the one that works best for you. Click on image or select from
Acrobat or Word options.
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Vendor's Web Pages
Directions
to Hamfest site
Drive south from
Chicago on Dan Ryan, I 94, after passing the 95th St. exit pick up I
57 (to Memphis)
Continue south on I 57 to exit 327. Go east 1 mile to Fairgrounds
From
north/west side of Chicago use the Tri-State southbound, I 294, to
I80 west bound (to Iowa). Proceed west about 1.5 miles and join I 57 southbound
(to Kankakee). Continue south on I 57 to exit 327. Go east 1 mile to Fairgrounds.
From
Indiana, I80/94 west. Stay on I 80, watch for the I 80 exit (to Iowa
with a 30 cent toll).
Continue west on I 80 1.5 miles and join I 57 southbound (to Kankakee). Continue
south I 57 to exit 327.
Go east 1 mile to Fairgrounds.
