"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
...
When I turned in my ticket at the Hamvention I
normally check out what the prizes are. This year
I couldn't see even one item from Yaesu. Kenwood
and Icom etc. had items on display, but not Yaesu.
I wonder if the Hamvention did something to tick
them off.

Also I would say that both the flea market and the
inside vendor numbers were down by at least 20%.
There were MANY empty spaces in the flea market
area when in past years it was mostly full. I also
heard that Mendelson wanted more space and a break
on the flea market rental since they are going out
of business. The Hamvention, based I what I heard
around, said no dice, so they didn't even bother
to show up and they're only a few miles from the
arena too. They spaced out many of the inside
vendor booth areas so it wasn't too obvious that
the number of vendors was way down.

What did anybody else notice? I hope the above
isn't a long term trend.


--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO


Don't know if it was down or not but enjoyed it immensely. I and the OM
were helping out a new ham select and buy equipment and of course picked up
a few goodies for ourselves too.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

On Sun, 22 May 2005 20:53:18 -0400, Dee Flint wrote:


"Leland C. Scott" wrote in message
...
When I turned in my ticket at the Hamvention I
normally check out what the prizes are. This year
I couldn't see even one item from Yaesu. Kenwood
and Icom etc. had items on display, but not Yaesu.
I wonder if the Hamvention did something to tick
them off.

Also I would say that both the flea market and the
inside vendor numbers were down by at least 20%.
There were MANY empty spaces in the flea market
area when in past years it was mostly full. I also
heard that Mendelson wanted more space and a break
on the flea market rental since they are going out
of business. The Hamvention, based I what I heard
around, said no dice, so they didn't even bother
to show up and they're only a few miles from the
arena too. They spaced out many of the inside
vendor booth areas so it wasn't too obvious that
the number of vendors was way down.

What did anybody else notice? I hope the above
isn't a long term trend.


--
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO


Don't know if it was down or not but enjoyed it immensely. I and the OM
were helping out a new ham select and buy equipment and of course picked up
a few goodies for ourselves too.

I'm glad you had a good time, so did I. I just found the reduction in the
number of flea market and inside vendors very noticeable compared to years
past.

Regards,
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO