[FARReps] Web update recognizes FF06

[Dan Blasberg]

Bill,

Here is the information you requested.

Martin Svrcek
Executive Director
Montgomery County Agricultural Center
16 Chestnut St.
Gaithersburg, MD 20877

For anyone and everyone that rights a letter to the fairgrounds, if you 
would, please provide a copy to FAR for our records. I will gladly 
accept them at my e-mail address or the can be mailed to;

FARFest
PO Box 1013
College Park, MD 20741


Thanks and 73,

Dan Blasberg
KA8YPY
Chairman
FARFest

On Sep 18, 2006, at 7:14 AM, William Riley wrote:

> As both a club rep and an attendee at FARFEST, I request that we be
> provided with the mailing address of the agency that owns and manages 
> the
> Montgomery County Fairgrounds, so that individual complaints can be 
> made to
> them about the parking fee and the way it was collected. Whether the
> Foundation complains or not, individuals need to have the means to
> complain. The management can blow off the Foundation's one complaint 
> as no
> big deal. Numbers count, and perception also counts.
>
> Perception refers to the strong impression people like me got, that we 
> were
> being scammed by someone who set up in a convenient location to 
> defraud the
> ham operators for the benefit of the gay rodeo. I had some conversation
> with the people collecting the parking fee, and there was no 
> possibility of
> confusion about which event we were attending. They collected my $5, 
> and
> tucked a ticket under my windshield wiper to indicate that I had paid. 
> I
> did not look closely at that ticket until we were ready to leave. When 
> I
> did, I discovered that it was a general admission ticket to the rodeo, 
> with
> a face value of $5. Now, maybe that's just what they used to keep 
> track of
> things, but the bottom line is I have documentary evidence that I was
> tricked into buying a ticket to the rodeo, and nothing the fairground
> management tells me now will alter that perception. They need to know 
> how
> much I, my wife, and others are offended by this. Only a mailbag full 
> of
> individual letters will accomplish that.
>
> William Riley, N3SNU
> raggallach at earthlink.net (home)
> w.riley at groupmagi.com (office)
> http://home.earthlink.net/~raggallach
> http://www.groupmagi.com
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: <w3qx at qsl.net>
>> To: <farreps at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: 9/15/2006 2:55:05 PM
>> Subject: [FARReps] Web update recognizes FF06
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>> An initial revision was just finished on farweb.org and farfest.org
>> pages that recognizes FAR Fest 06 occurred, the FF06 site property
>> manager enforced parking, and that FAR Fest 07 is expected.
>>
>> On the FAR home page and on the FAR Fest home page is a click-through
>> header "A Statement about F.A.R. Fest 2006".  Clicking calls a page
>> that begins:
>>
>>
>>> A Statement About F.A.R.Fest 2006
>>>
>>> Ten days before F.A.R.Fest 2006, the Montgomery County Agricultural
>>> Center, Inc. specifically stated it had started a new policy of
>>> charging for parking [...]
>>
>>
>> Thanks to Ed Herbrechtsmeier k3qx for keeping the Foundation's sites
>> current.  It's expected changes will continue to occur quickly and
>> Ed's responses are appreciated.
>>
>> Momentum is a big factor in the survival of events like FAR Fest.
>> Dan Blasberg, Chmn., and Bill Dobson kept FAR Fest going over a
>> challenging week.  If you know them, let them know you appreciate
>> what it took for FAR Fest to avoid literally miss a year.
>>
>> The FAR Fest team and the Foundation Board have already started
>> planning for FAR Fest 2007.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> William Hatfield
>>
>>
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