[FLham] Re: Alternative to Absurd Ham Flea Start Times?

[Brian Carling]

This is a GREAT idea! You can usually be finished with these 'crack-o'-dawn' 
hamfests by 9:30 or 10:00 a.m. and then drive over to the next one!!

Who will communicate it to the clubs?

On 21 Apr 2002 at 21:06, doc wrote:

> I have spoken to lots of Hams and they collectively say that they do
> not understand why these things are scheduled to start at such absurd
> times.
> 
> To attend a 7AM Flea in Largo means that I have to get up at 
> 5:30 or 5:45AM on a Saturday ... forget it!
> 
> Perhaps if someone gets creative and starts theirs later in the day
> they'd pick up all of us who won't bother traveling to these small
> Fleas at a more reasonable hour (like 9 or 10 am) because we know that
> all of the decent stuff is gone and some of the sellers are too!
> 
> How about a group of Ham Fleas across Central FL that switch to a
> later start -- perhaps 10AM?
> 
> Call it The Sleepy Ham Flea Association or something?
> 
> :-)  doc 
> 
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> > Everyone welcome - bring your stuff to sell. I hear that these are
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> 
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