[Elecraft] "Cheap Hams" ???

[G4GNX]

It's generally been accepted for many years that if one ham has a component 
that he doesn't need and another ham wants it, it will usually be given for 
free. This culture has grown from the days when most shack equipment was 
homebrew.
Hams also tend to help each other with projects, antenna farming etc., 
usually without payment.
At our local club, members often bring unwanted items along for 
distribution, mostly for free. Sometimes if an item has some higher value, a 
donation to club funds is expected.
Like other hobbies, we have "junk sales", where valued equipment can 
sometimes be sold for silly prices.

I think that the above is where the "cheap" label has emerged from. I prefer 
to think of hams as "thrifty". :-)

73,

Alan. G4GNX

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rose
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:42 AM
To: Jim Lowman ; Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] "Cheap Hams" ???

After 64 years in the hobby I still don't understand where this
idea that hams are cheap comes from!  I simply don't accept
this urban legend.

Jim is certainly correct about the funds changing hands at Visalia.
My Lady ... Rose of ElecraftCovers at gmail.com ... hasn't been
able to make the trip from Montana because of health reasons,
for a couple but the last time she was there with her tables she
came home with $3500+ in orders!  Took her many weeks to
fill them. (:-)

She's free of cancer now, and steadily recovering.

73!

Ken Kopp - K0PP

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Obviously you've never been to the International DX Convention in Visalia
> that happened last weekend.
>
> These guys (and ladies) are dead serious, and are not afraid to spend some
> money.  Don't confuse them with the guy at the local swapmeet who saved 
> the
> 50 cents on a bar of soap so that he could haggle with a seller to get a
> dollar mic for his half buck.
>
> It was obvious from who the vendors were - most of them hawking high-end
> products like amplifiers, antennas and the like - and what they didn't 
> have
> on display.  Even at the Yaesu and Icom booths, there was nary a thing 
> that
> would appeal to the shack-on-the-belt members of the fraternity.
>
> Back in the late 90s, when US Tower was located in Visalia, they would
> have an open house and lunch for anyone from the convention who stopped
> by.  It was not unusual for some of the visitors to pull out checkbooks or
> plastic for thousands of dollars worth of purchases.
>
> I'm sure that Eric and crew took lots of orders for the K-Line and
> KX3-Line products.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
> On 4/21/2015 4:54 PM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> Yeah right...  Never going to happen...  Hams are without a doubt the
>> cheapest people I have ever met.
>>
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