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Please come by and visit even if you're not radio inclined. New location this year at the Alcazar Shrine Temple- 555 Eastern Blvd....Last year there were early radios you won't find in any museum., RC models, TV, audio, computer, electronics and parts. Some ladies had custom-made jewery, there were Weather alert and emergency prepardedness groups....VE testing-Forums-Door prizes-Bone-yard...

Unheard by most of us is a constant conversation over the airwaves in the di-da tones of Morse code, the crackling of static and staccato voices keying in and out: Ham radio operators who broadcast from garrets and garages, tents and trucks, homes and businesses. Saturday's Radio Fest 2005 offered a glimpse into this world at Fort Ord's Stilwell Community Center, sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School Amateur Radio Club, the Monterey Bay subsection of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Amateur Radio Relay League. Radio Fest looked like nothing so much as an electronics garage sale,...