Dayton

[Carl Hyde]

All the new blood and many of us old blood are buying
and selling their stuff on ebay so they don't have to
spend weekends sitting at a ham fest while cheap-assed
hams try to bargain them out of every last cent.  As
we speak there are 10,600 items listed on ebay under
radio equipment.  Now if that isn't the worlds biggest
hamfest what is. If you are a seller or a buyer you
don't have to travel anywhere and spend hours looking
for your favorite widgett. I like hamfests and I'm
going to Dayton because I have never been there and I
want to attend some of the digital mode events. But I
see the attendance and the quantity of radio equipment
decreasing at all the hamfests in my area.  Most
hamfests are more computer sales than radio equipment.
 I stopped taking equipment to hamfests last year
because its easier to take it to the post office once
than drag it around to two or three hamfests to get a
fair price. Whether or not you use ebay and the
collecting reflectors the impact on ham fests has been
enormous.



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Carl HYDE
W2CSH

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