W4RNC
The Downtown Demonstration Station
Visitors/Media
As we said, the main reason for being downtown was to show off.  And we got lots of visitors, including these two young ladies who are checking out the map KD4ISC hung up showing states we worked.
And WA9SZL took time out to talk to this fellow who stopped by on his bike. 

About the only disappointment was that we didn't get any elected officials to come visit, although Lt. Governor Bev Perdue's media director did come by Sunday morning.  We're counting that in the "spirit" of the bonus points for official visits.

That's something we'll have to work harder on next year.

We got some media coverage, too.  Here KN4AQ is being interviewed for NBC-17 (Gary's feeling right at home as an NBC alumni from Chicago).  We also got on WTVD-11.  That camera crew had been covering another downtown story and stopped by to see what was going on.  Our big beam attracted a lot of attention.
We didn't get the Governor to visit, but we did get the President.  OK, the RARS President, KF4RTX. Maybe Tim is thinking about running for Governor next.  Then we can put the beam on top of the Capitol...
can't wait for next year.....