[Boatanchors] [FLBOATANCHORS] Orlando Hamcation - Good Despite Economy

[Bob Hardie- W5UQ]

_*Had a WONDERFUL TIME at HamCation:*_

All the people of HamCation group who put this on should be 
congratulated again for a great job and a fun filled hamfest. 

I talked to people from all over and under as a matter of fact.  At 
least two Aussie's came by our tables.  Friends from Sacramento Calif, 
Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, South Carolina, New York, Canada, Georgia 
and of course Florida, plus more, came by.  I LOVE the camaraderie  that 
these events create.  HAMS ARE GREAT!!!!

Wrapping up this ragchew..........
W5SJ, Bill Priakos,  KD4E, Doc(and family), my wonderful wife Elva and I 
had four tables next to each other and HAD A BLAST.  Elva got a lot of 
Dust Cover orders and met a lot of nice people too.

Thank you all for coming by, stopping to just talk and/or bought or 
didn't bought.  We enjoyed every minute...................welllllllll, 
almost every minute...              read on....

MY complaints are:  bad knees, bad back & bad memory.  Plus too wide to 
make it through some isles without bumping people, not enough time to go 
through the other tables, tail-gaters area and NEVER made it to 
commercial area at all. 
I did enjoy all of it, however, AND am *Looking forward to next year.  *

_*Bob W5UQ  and XYL Elva Hardie     Tampa  FL     See W5UQ.com
*_
PS... hey Doc, I think Bill, W5SJ brought two Yaesu black hats to our 
tables.  He gave you one of them I thought.  They didn't smell like fish 
to me... HI HI HI....  oh... hopefully you could be talking about two 
*_other_* Yaesu black hats?  :-D :-D      OR did you mean black cats 
that smelled like fish?  :-)

kd4e wrote:
> We attended Hamcation in Orlando on Friday and
> Saturday and despite the mess that the politicians
> have made of our economy it went pretty well.
>
> Sure, the numbers were down some, but those who
> did attend we buying and selling and appeared to be
> having a good time - perhaps because it was not so
> crowded so as to make eyeball rag-chews impossible?
>
> I never made it into the Commercial buildings so cannot
> comment on who was there or any good sales.
>
> In my experience the good and bad highlights were:
>
> Good
> * Saw a lot of familiar faces and had some good chats.
> * Found a few things at reasonable prices.
> * Some beautiful boatanchors, Central Electronics and
>     Collins hear in pristine condition, Harvey-Wells
>     Bandmaster, Drake, and Swan.
> *Lots of mid-range HF solid state gear and hybrids (e.g.
>     TS-520 at reasonable prices for new Generals)
> * Hamcation volunteers were as always very helpful and
>     cheerful!
> * Beautiful weather as usual.
>
> Bad
> * Someone picked up two black Yaesu hats at their booth
>     and brought them to our table in the Swaps Building.
>     They inexplicably wreaked of fish and even after two
>     washings at home are now outside.  Shame as they are
>     nice looking hats.
> * A lot less big iron in the tailgate area - was looking for
>     a plate supply for single 3-500z amp (so I don't have to
>     build one from scratch).
> * The only seller of 407A/5847A tubes had them priced
>     higher than online.  (There were lot of tube sellers and
>     generally prices were reasonable.)
>
> * Didn't spot any old mobile BA gear like Gonset, Morrow, Elmac.
>
>   
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