tech-x wrote:

why do hams sleep in their cars the night before a
hamfest ? get up next morning, eat breakfast and not
leave even a one buck tip for the waitress, then go to the
hamfest and drop $1875 on a new hf xcvr ?

dont make no sense

Sure it do. How you think they save up for the HF xcvr? Taking a room
at the Hilton and tipping 20%?