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FYI: Vanity Call fee going up in August
The fee for a Vanity Call will rise on August 6 from $16.30 to $20.80.
This is for a 10-year license. The latest ARRL Bulletin cites http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-04-146A1.doc but I don't do M$Word, so I am taking the ARRL's word for it. Alan AB2OS |
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Really?
Minnie Bannister wrote: The fee for a Vanity Call will rise on August 6 from $16.30 to $20.80. This is for a 10-year license. The latest ARRL Bulletin cites http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-04-146A1.doc but I don't do M$Word, so I am taking the ARRL's word for it. Alan AB2OS |
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Alan,
You can download OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org which is FREE of charge and the client will allow you to view as well as create a .doc file. Ciao, Me "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... The fee for a Vanity Call will rise on August 6 from $16.30 to $20.80. This is for a 10-year license. The latest ARRL Bulletin cites http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-04-146A1.doc but I don't do M$Word, so I am taking the ARRL's word for it. Alan AB2OS |
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"Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... The fee for a Vanity Call will rise on August 6 from $16.30 to $20.80. This is for a 10-year license. Doing the math, that comes out to about $2.08 per year, or 0.0057 CENTS per-day over the course of a 10-Year period........... How much do you wanna bet however that the average traditionally el-cheapo ham radio operator will ****-and-moan like a stuck pig over a 0.0057 Cent-per-day fee...??? (my guess is alot will !) For example, I was selling at a hamfest in Pa last month. Had a shoebox full of miniature tubes for $1.00 each. A real bargain considering tubes are going for much more on e-Bay. This putz comes walking up, digs thru the box for 2 minutes and pulls out *one* tube and wants it for 35 cents. I was willing to let it go for 75 cents but he wants it for 35 cents. No deal. He puts it back (tosses it) and gets all smart-ass saying "you'll sell it to me later for 35 Cents." The schmuck comes back 1/2 hour later digs it out and asks for it for 35 Cents again. I say OK, offer to wrap it, he hands it to me and while he's reachin for his 35 cents, I dropped the tube on the ground and smashed it with my trusty Nike, then told him I changed my mind and wanted $1.00 for it. This putz goes completely nuts saying he's looked all over 4 hamfests for this tube and he couldn't believe I smashed it. Jumpin up and down like a looney and me quietly hoping he would have a stroke right there as he must have weighed 300 pounds. A real "Eddie Slobbo" fer sure - baaaaaa hahahahah!! I just laughed and offered him a pleasant balance of the afternoon. After he left the dealers either side of me were almost teary-eyed laughing at the spectacle of this event, and we each shared a Pepsi from my trusty Coleman cooler and had a nice late-lunch at the pizza hut afterwards. El-Cheapo hams....always too much FUN to pass up the opportunity to poke'em-with-a-stick thru the monkey bars !! : ) : ) : ) |
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"Burp not Burr" wrote in message groups.com... [snip] For example, I was selling at a hamfest in Pa last month. Had a shoebox full of miniature tubes for $1.00 each. A real bargain considering tubes are going for much more on e-Bay. This putz comes walking up, digs thru the box for 2 minutes and pulls out *one* tube and wants it for 35 cents. I was willing to let it go for 75 cents but he wants it for 35 cents. Oh, tell us more!! Was the tube a 7060? No deal. He puts it back (tosses it) and gets all smart-ass saying "you'll sell it to me later for 35 Cents." The schmuck comes back 1/2 hour later digs it out and asks for it for 35 Cents again. I say OK, offer to wrap it, Wrap it? Isn't that nice. A hamfest tube! The gift that keeps on giving! he hands it to me and while he's reachin for his 35 cents, I dropped the tube on the ground and smashed it with my trusty Nike, then told him I changed my mind and wanted $1.00 for it. Oh -- oh -- oh!!! Please say the tube was a 1L6!!! That would be soooooo coooool!! This putz goes completely nuts saying he's looked all over 4 hamfests for this tube and he couldn't believe I smashed it. Jumpin up and down like a looney and me quietly hoping he would have a stroke right there as he must have weighed 300 pounds. A real "Eddie Slobbo" fer sure - baaaaaa hahahahah!! I just laughed and offered him a pleasant balance of the afternoon. Sorry, this is where credibility of the story gets weak. The image of a fat guy buying fat tubes is much more beliveable. Next time, bust up a good 50 or even a NOS S-bulb 80. After he left the dealers either side of me were almost teary-eyed laughing at the spectacle of this event, and we each shared a Pepsi from my trusty Coleman cooler and had a nice late-lunch at the pizza hut afterwards. El-Cheapo hams....always too much FUN to pass up the opportunity to poke'em-with-a-stick thru the monkey bars !! : ) : ) : ) Hey! That's also the troll's credo!!! Frank Dresser |
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Burp not Burr wrote:
For example, I was selling at a hamfest in Pa last month. Had a shoebox full of miniature tubes for $1.00 each. A real bargain considering tubes are going for much more on e-Bay. This putz comes walking up, digs thru the box for 2 minutes and pulls out *one* tube and wants it for 35 cents. I was willing to let it go for 75 cents but he wants it for 35 cents. No deal. He puts it back (tosses it) and gets all smart-ass saying "you'll sell it to me later for 35 Cents." The schmuck comes back 1/2 hour later digs it out and asks for it for 35 Cents again. I say OK, offer to wrap it, he hands it to me and while he's reachin for his 35 cents, I dropped the tube on the ground and smashed it with my trusty Nike, then told him I changed my mind and wanted $1.00 for it. This putz goes completely nuts saying he's looked all over 4 hamfests for this tube and he couldn't believe I smashed it. Jumpin up and down like a looney and me quietly hoping he would have a stroke right there as he must have weighed 300 pounds. A real "Eddie Slobbo" fer sure - baaaaaa hahahahah!! I just laughed and offered him a pleasant balance of the afternoon. After he left the dealers either side of me were almost teary-eyed laughing at the spectacle of this event, and we each shared a Pepsi from my trusty Coleman cooler and had a nice late-lunch at the pizza hut afterwards. El-Cheapo hams....always too much FUN to pass up the opportunity to poke'em-with-a-stick thru the monkey bars !! : ) : ) : ) Just curious, what was the tube type? |
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The schmuck comes back 1/2 hour later digs it out and asks for it for 35 Cents again. I say OK, offer to wrap it, he hands it to me and while he's reachin for his 35 cents, I dropped the tube on the ground and smashed it with my trusty Nike, then told him I changed my mind and wanted $1.00 for it. Good one ..... I've been involved in this hobby, service, endeavor, passion or whatever for 40 years plus. It is always an amazement to me the cheap-Os that are out there that want something for nothing or near it. OTOH I have met a lot of nice people who would bend over backwards to give me parts for nothing for my projects. That is the ham spirit at work and those are the ones that I remember after all these years. God Bless 73 KI3R Tom Popovic Belle Vernon Pa. |
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Thanks for sharing that with us, Tom.
73, Me "garigue" wrote in message news:HpiHc.46193$IQ4.22014@attbi_s02... The schmuck comes back 1/2 hour later digs it out and asks for it for 35 Cents again. I say OK, offer to wrap it, he hands it to me and while he's reachin for his 35 cents, I dropped the tube on the ground and smashed it with my trusty Nike, then told him I changed my mind and wanted $1.00 for it. Good one ..... I've been involved in this hobby, service, endeavor, passion or whatever for 40 years plus. It is always an amazement to me the cheap-Os that are out there that want something for nothing or near it. OTOH I have met a lot of nice people who would bend over backwards to give me parts for nothing for my projects. That is the ham spirit at work and those are the ones that I remember after all these years. God Bless 73 KI3R Tom Popovic Belle Vernon Pa. |
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garigue wrote:
Good one ..... I've been involved in this hobby, service, endeavor, passion or whatever for 40 years plus. It is always an amazement to me the cheap-Os that are out there that want something for nothing or near it. OTOH I have met a lot of nice people who would bend over backwards to give me parts for nothing for my projects. That is the ham spirit at work and those are the ones that I remember after all these years. God Bless 73 KI3R Tom Popovic Belle Vernon Pa. I had a similar experience several years ago. I went to the local once-a-month ham radio sidewalk sale and had a really clean, nice working Hallicrafters S-40 for sale. This guy walks up and offers me $25 less than what I was asking. I refused. He said I would never get the asking price and would be lucky to get what he was offering. I said if it did not sell, HamCom was comming up in a couple of weeks and the price there would be even higher. He stomped off but came back a few minutes later and lays down the amount he offered and picked up the radio. I ask just what the H did he think he was doing. "I am buying the radio". I informed him that my asking price still stood and please put the radio back and take his money and go somewhere else. Now he is really POed. Well as luck would have it he saw the radio at my table at HamCom marked up at almost twice what I was asking at the sidewalk sale. He looked it over and walked away only to come back about an hour later, with money in had, to find the set was gone and asked if I had sold it. "Yep" I smiled, "and at the asking price too". Doncha just luv these clowns? |
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Well I price things 25 to 50% high and since all buyers dearly love and must
have "a bargain" -- they offer me a riduclous low ball offer. We barter, shout, accuse each other of taking food from our childrens mouth etc Finally we agree on the price I would have sold it for to start with. They snicker as they take away the treasure and just know they beat me down. I snicker as it worked again -- seldom fails. All this is not limited to Hams -- it is an international practice. In some countries they have no respect for you if you don't go thru the drill of bartering. I have experienced this same drill in the good old USA for used goods, flea markets, newspaper ads, et al. We all have heard: I just went to the sale -- saved $40 He/she started at $100 I stole it for $75 The guy/gal was desperate sold it for $50 less I can turn around and sell this for a profit on and on goes the bartering process Ya know they gonna low ball you so start high and spend the time to bargain -- old american custom, everyone walks away happy. -- Lamont Cranston I had a similar experience several years ago. I went to the local once-a-month ham radio sidewalk sale and had a really clean, nice working Hallicrafters S-40 for sale. This guy walks up and offers me $25 less than what I was asking. I refused. He said I would never get the asking price and would be lucky to get what he was offering. I said if it did not sell, HamCom was comming up in a couple of weeks and the price there would be even higher. He stomped off but came back a few minutes later and lays down the amount he offered and picked up the radio. I ask just what the H did he think he was doing. "I am buying the radio". I informed him that my asking price still stood and please put the radio back and take his money and go somewhere else. Now he is really POed. Well as luck would have it he saw the radio at my table at HamCom marked up at almost twice what I was asking at the sidewalk sale. He looked it over and walked away only to come back about an hour later, with money in had, to find the set was gone and asked if I had sold it. "Yep" I smiled, "and at the asking price too". Doncha just luv these clowns? |
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