[AMRadio] Shelby, NC Fest

[Rob Atkinson]

My impression from the photos was that there were a few nice looking
items but most looked like fairly serious restoration projects and I
suspect were being sold by owners who had decided they were never
going to get around to doing anything with them.   I understand how
that can happen.   Suze Orman (another financial "expert") in the
latest issue of AARP magazine says no one should retire before the age
of 70.  She's nuts or completely out of touch with regular people.  If
I worked that long no radio projects would ever get done.

73

Rob
K5UJ
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 2:08 PM CL in NC via AMRadio
<amradio at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> A hot day, but a lot of nice gear:
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> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/shelby_2018.htm
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> Shelby, like many fests now, is getting a bit thin.  The fairground was wall to wall with gear, with hardly a space left just a few years ago.  Now, almost evenly divided between campers, parkers and sellers.  MFJ is the biggest commercial vendor, and always a favorite, Tower Electronics with their tables of connectors adapters and all those things you need to stock up on until the next time.  Noticeably absent this year, Elecraft and Flex, which really didn't sell anything there, they just took orders.
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> Charlie, W4MEC