Dayton

[Ray Friess]

I agree with Carl ... unfortunate that I have to though.
Our last swap meet last month was a dud ..  NO NONE  NADA when it came
to the vintage stuff.  Last year there was lots, the year before even
more.
     Being easier to go the post office is true but sad.  To me thats
like saying .. i'll hire someone to put up a tower, install my 7 element
beam for 20 and do everything else so all I have to do is sit down and
flip the switch.  Takes the fun out of hamming.  My fondest memories are
climbing around on the roof of my parents home in the middle of winter,
stringing up antennas and trying new things...  I know, its not exactly
the same thing as going to the post office... but I'm trying to express
the sense of adventure and fun and comraderie that goes with swap
meets.. even if you have to haul the stuff around.  Maybe we could hire
moving companies to take our gear out to field day sites.. HI HI.
     And.. I STILL say that you may get more on the auction site, but if
money is the whole object... and there's no "spirit" involved ... then
open a ham radio shop..  (and i'm NOT slamming the commercial shops with
that comment either).
     One little mea culpa too..  I myself have used auctions when I have
no choice for various reasons.... but I still have a twinge of
conscience when I do  HI HI.
     Ray  WA7ITZ



Carl Hyde wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> =====
> Carl HYDE
> W2CSH
>
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