{"id":94,"date":"2005-07-12T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T22:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-07-12T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T22:54:25","slug":"highlights-from-the-milton-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from the Milton Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milton, Ontario (up there in Canada) had it&#8217;s annual hamfest recently. As usual, we had several people on the ground, reporting on all of the hamsexyness going on. Chuck Bravo sent us these photos of the event &#8211; enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton1-t.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nA Van with a very rusty luggage rack and red lights&#8230;. don&#8217;t know if they flash, or just extentions of his brake lights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton2-t.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=10\/><\/a><br \/>\nThese guys were <b>the hit<\/b> of the show. Not only did I get several e-mail regarding these nerds, they were also on the lips of everyone at the fest. A few of our contacts at the fest overheard people remarking &#8220;hey, did you check out the whackers?&#8221;. When you are ridiculed at a HAMFEST, you know you&#8217;ve probably got a problem. First of all, they&#8217;re all wearing identical cargo pants, like they were all cast members in some sort of gay militia film. One of them is wearing a very unconvincing &#8220;Toronto Fire&#8221; shirt, and yet another is wearing a white uniform shirt, very tight cargos and an Astro Saber II on his ass. A bunch of strutting, overweight, early-20 ham radio nerds were OBVIOUSLY not fooling anyone into thinking that they were actually firefighters, so one has to question: WHY? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton3-t.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nA perrenial favourite at Canadian hamfests, strikingly without it&#8217;s enormously obscene yagi on the roof. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton4-t.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat is, and what will be. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton5-t.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Hamdicapped Bus! Another favourite, and usual lurker of Canadian hamfests. We gotta get a shot of the guy who owns this. I&#8217;m envisioning overalls, and nothing else&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/milton6-t.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nYet another Hamsexy regular&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>If any more photos of the Milton Hamfest exist, please send them to <a  href=\"javascript:smae_decode('c3VibWlzc2lvbnNAaGFtc2V4eS5jb20=');\" >&#115;&#117;&#098;&#109;&#105;&#115;&#115;&#105;&#111;&#110;&#115;&#064;&#104;&#097;&#109;&#115;&#101;&#120;&#121;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;<\/a>. Until next time, leave the white blouse and cargopants at home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milton, Ontario (up there in Canada) had it&#8217;s annual hamfest recently. As usual, we had several people on the ground, reporting on all of the hamsexyness going on. Chuck Bravo sent us these photos of the event &#8211; enjoy. 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