I can’t believe Huntsville Hamfest is already here! Well, almost. I usually camp at Monte Sano State Park from Monday to Monday and this year is no different. Except instead of car camping like I’ve done the last 2 years, this year I’ll have the teardrop camper. Huntsville is really the main reason I bought the camper. I usually leave super early in the morning on Monday and get to Huntsville around ~4pm but this year, since I’m pulling the trailer, I thought it would be good to leave sometime Sunday afternoon. Get a 4 or 5 hours behind me since I won’t be able to drive 90MPH like I normally do. 70 is kinda top end when I’m towing. I’ll just stay the night in a rest stop when I feel like stopping, then hopefully only have 6 or 7 hours to go and get to Monte Sano right at checkin time. That’s the plan anyway. Since I’m camping in the primitive camp sites (12A) I’ll be totally off grid. This is going to be a great test to see if I can keep the batteries in the camper charged via solar so we can use the AC at night or during the day when we need to cool off. There’s not a lot of sun that comes through the canopy so I’ve brought just about every solar panel and wire that I own to hopefully accomplish this task. We gotta keep Caitlin comfortable after all.
Anyway, I may do a video from the road. I’ll def be doing videos at the camp site and park in general, and of course from the fest. Those prob won’t post until after though as there is almost zero internet on top of the mountain. Enough to watch some YouTube videos usually, but uploading videos is about as painful as downloading a single picture back in the early 90s. I know some of the guys will have their StarLinks setup and I’m pretty sure Kyle AA0Z will be live streaming the cookout on Friday on his channel (it’s AA0Z) if you want to catch the shenanigans. There’s going to be over 200 people at the cookout this year. It’s gonna be a crazy good time!
Hope to see some of you there and the rest of you can live vicariously through all the YouTube content that will be coming out in the next couple weeks.
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