Hi.
For the most part I found that when I brought some decent stuff, I had
better luck selling it on this list afterwards.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 09:51 PM 7/25/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi;
>The thing that I really find astonishing is that folks pack up mountains
>of semi-junk and take it home to wait for the next ham fest. Some of the
>stuff that gets carted from one ham fest to another might find a better home
>at the curb.
>Richard
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:00 PM
>Subject: Re: not off topic
>
>
>our ham fests are now beginning to show true arosion.
>We usually have at least 1 or 2 tables of ham fest sponsors such as our
>local investors group, selling books, offering door prizes of an hour of
>free financial councelling....and a free self help book on investing....they
>even go so far as to bring in non hams to work the tables? an abomanation if
>you ask me.
>Also, our ham fest has the unseemly habit of allowing all the table buyers
>to have first grabs on any of the stuff before the doors open...so if you
>buy a table, you can have first shot at all the goodies before the masses
>come in...this means all the guys who are selling their worthless junk and
>computer garbage get to snap up the good radios and ham equipment or trade
>it for their computer stuff...so by the time we poor peaons get to come in,
>everything is pretty much crap and there are no good deals or good
>radios/antennas, power supplies or anything of that nature left. and if
>there are, they are way over priced.
>I tend to find that the ham fests around here have old farts who think
>their garbage is worth its weight in gold and would rather pack it all back
>home then deal on the selling price...so we end up seeing the same stuff
>year after year after year cuz they refuse to sell it for reasonable prices.
>I have only been going for 3 years, but i have heard from other hams, that
>they have seen the same tables, with nearly the exact same equipment, over
>priced, on them for ten years in some cases.
>when you want $300 for a table top short wave radio, or $150 for a mag mount
>5.8's wave that you can buy for $69 at the ham store, you aren't gonna sell
>much.
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:38 PM
>Subject: not off topic
>
>
> > Hi;
> > Can't resist after a day at work. Have you gone to any recent ham fests
>and
> > taken a look whether there are many decent radios or piles of software and
> > pc products? I'm afraid the pc wins hands down based on my unscientific
> > observations.
> > As for the program to run your radio, I guess it depends upon the radio
>and
> > what run means. Apparently you can download software from Kenwood but
>never
> > tried it or seen any list of key strokes. Ham radio deluxe has gotten a
>lot
> > of interest and a list of keystrokes, some scripts or even a set file or
>two
> > might be nice.
> > I will never be Mr. computer and I'm a bit reluctant to jump into
>relatively
> > uncharted waters.
> > Richard
> >
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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