[MRCA] Hamvention flea market

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Ray,
AA8LL says, "Hamvention web site is finally up and you can reserve flea and vendor spots online.  I hope it works as good as it looks.  The elves were probably up all night."
See you there,
73,
Roger, in Wichita, KØRMK


---- Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote: 
> With just ninety days until the Dayton Hamvention they still do not have anything up on line about the flea market in terms of layout, amount of spaces or cost of the new spaces. But wait, there web site proclaims that tomorrow the 18th they will have something up.
> Remember the old day when if you did not buy your space by December you would be out of luck?, it's been about ten years now that they have not sold out of spaces before the event but I have an old habit of always buying my space on line before the first of the year but not this year. Would assume that they are concentrating more on all the pavilions and building and the inside vendors first being that's where the money is and maybe the flea market don't matter?
> When you look at the drone video you see how they are planning use of the parking sections, scooter rentals and the parking lot that will be tented over for new vendors and then the complex of buildings that will be the center of the event and have all the picnic tables and the like and finally off to the side you get the see the race track where they say the flea market will be at the far end of the event. Also have to wonder if the new track section is the same size as the old flea market?
> Hara was a dump, prone to eruptions of sewage and a sea of potholes but for twenty years it was a temporary home and now it will be interesting to see what the future brings.
> The big question is do we want to try to coordinate and maybe get all the Mill Radio people together in the same section? There had always been an informal agreement that where the Old Man Mr. S is located that's the center of the Military Radio Universe for that weekend, although I have to admit that I always took the lone wolf approach and set up house four rows over. And several others have always been located over closer to the Northern side around Nick Land. Maybe this is the opportunity for us all to collocate and get on each other's nerves?
> Let's see what everyone else thinks, attached is a picture of what happened the last time I got too close to Mr. S.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH