[SMCARA] Tail Gate fest - equipment auction

[A.J. Farmer]

Good to know. I was unaware of the date.

Thanks!

A.J.

> On Aug 2, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Ken McNeely via SMCARA <smcara at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> AJ,
> The date & venue were secured the week after the last tailgate & the bingo hall at the Hollywood FD has been paid for.  My questionis that is it going to be a faffle (which was the origional idea) or an auction.  World of difference.
> KenKB3YPY "If you don't make changes, you will live your next five years the same as your last five have been" 
> 
> 
>     On Sunday, August 2, 2015 4:30 PM, Daniel Metcalf - W3DMJ <w3dmj at metcalfradio.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The venue was secured immediately after last year's tailgate fest. The
> date that we reserved is October 24, 2015 at the Bingo Hall at the
> Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department.
> 
> I was told they would send me a receipt when the signed contract was
> received but as of the last email on 12/15/2014 I have not yet received
> that receipt. I have just emailed hvfdhallrental at gmail.com again to
> ensure we indeed have the Bingo Hall for the 24th of October 2015.
> 
> Dan - W3DMJ
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 11:48 -0400, A.J. Farmer wrote:
>> My opinion on this is a date needs to be set and a venue secured before we get into discussion of raffle prizes. Just starting to plan this event 60 days out?  I think it's too late.
>> 
>> There is a big difference in a raffle for a $150 radio vs a $600 - $800 radio. A lot more tickets need to be sold, or charge more for the tickets to just break even.  It will require selling 120 tickets @ $5 each to just break even on $600. I don't think we'll pull off a break even on the raffle in 60 days, especially if the August 27th meeting we are still deciding what to do and haven't sold a ticket at all. 
>> 
>> I would suggest to start planning now for either a spring tailgate or for October 2016.
>> 
>> A.J.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Richard N1LID <nonelidd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you Larry - you are right, getting the .64 repeater back to its former
>>> glory is a top priority.
>>> 
>>> What you may not know is the radios we auction for the tail gate fest MAKE
>>> money. That is to say,
>>> They INCREASE the amount of money in our bank account.
>>> 
>>> The FT-2900 radio auction doubled the amount we purchased for it.
>>> 
>>> There is a plan in motion to get the .64 repeater back to full status.  We
>>> have the hardware.
>>> 
>>> We will talk about it in more detail at the next club meeting (August 27th).
>>> Hope to see you there!
>>> 
>>> Boz 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Larry Norris [mailto:unit922 at verizon.net] 
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 9:44 AM
>>> To: N1LID at arrl.net; SMCARA Reflector (E-mail)
>>> Subject: Re: [SMCARA] Tail Gate fest - equipment auction
>>> 
>>> 
>>> we need to get a New Repeater for 64 this is Pri one, and not but radios for
>>> ham fest that's my 2 $ Larry Norris N3JTN  Ham
>>> Kae-4617 GMRS
>>> DMR
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>>> You can't have too many radios....
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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