[AMRadio] hamfest?

[Nick England]

It vairies immensely - NEARfest has an admirable "no computers.
nothing but ham gear" policy and attracts a very large number of
sellers and buyers. Most fests in the Southeast have a pretty good
assortment of boatanchors and boatanchorites.
See examples at
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/shelby_2011.htm
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/shelby_2010.htm
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/ga10.htm
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/clt-11.htm
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/rars-11.htm
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/rich-12.htm

It ain't like going to Wal-mart where something is either in stock or
not available. You might go to 20-30 hamfests looking for a particular
item before you happen upon the guy who says - yeah, I've got a Desk
Kilowatt back home in the garage, are you interested?

cheers,
Nick K4NYW

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Bernie Doran
<qedconsultants at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> I went to my first hamfest/computer show in many years today thinking I
> might find some interesting AM gear.  ignoring the computer stuff, probably
> only 20%. I saw a nice Halicrafters rx, about ten or so nice Heathkits, a
> 390A, perhaps 20 modern ssb transceivers.  all could have been on a thirty
> foot table. What else? CB transceivers stacked six deep, Jewerly, auto truck
> repair manuals, tire tools, dozens of record players, thousands of CDs, VHS
> tapes etc. stuffed animals, candles and jellies, slide projectors, bobble
> heads, hundreds of ink jet cartriges, light strings and Christmas
> decorations, and best of all, syringes beside minature digital scales!
>
> There probably were 400 people there so this must be what they want.  It
> looked like Wal Mart, 400 pounders waddling back and forth and stinking of
> cigarette smoke.    This pretty much indicated to me why we have a different
> type of operator on the ham bands.  However, trying to be objective, Those
> of us who at least try to be polite, may well in a short period of time, if
> not now, be in the minority and it could be argued that we are in the wrong
> and out of step.
>
> This looked simply like a flea market.    And, yes, before anyone says, if
> you did not like it, do not go again.  I certainly will not.
>
> Is this typical?    Bernie  W8RPW
>
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