Huntsville Hamfest, the third largest U.S. Hamfest will be held August 17-18 and all the major players will be there. DX Engineering, Elecraft, Flex Radio, Heil Sound, Icom, Kenwood, MFJ, STEPPIR, and Yaesu to name a few . See the complete list of the current manufactures and vendors set to attend attached. 73, Greg Sarratt, W4OZK On Friday, July 26, 2019 11:13:04 AM EDT, hopengarten@post.harvard.edu <hopengarten@post.harvard.edu> wrote: At the most recent meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors, I put forth a motion suggesting that the Division Director and two members of the Legislative Advisory Committee should attempt to meet with a few principals from each of the 15 or so major vendors to the Amateur Radio Community. As I understood it, there was overwhelming agreement that we have things to learn from our vendor community, but that a minute in our published minutes would have negative implications. I withdrew the motion. The next major regional convention occurs soon, September 6-8, and happens to be here in New England (“Boxboro,” https://hamxposition.org). I expect that K1TWF will be able to tell me which major vendors will have management present. It may be only one or two. But nonetheless, it will be a good opportunity for a trial run at a qualitative survey. The plan: · A Thursday (during the day), or evening meeting – requested in advance – and off-site. · Not a lot of questions, and those that are asked may best be open-ended. · A summary provided to the Legislative Advisory Committee to help the next round of qualitative interviews. · A report back to the Board by July 2020. A guideline to such interviews (and it is clear that chats on the show floor are nowhere near as good) is attached. It is only Version 1. Improvements welcome! | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv