"Too_Many_Tools" wrote:

I do know that ham fests are a shadow of what they used to be.

I have not been to Dayton for awhile...is it also dying out?

Thank Ebay. You can sell a FRG-7 for somewhere between $100 and $200
at a hamfest, after a lot of dickering, etc., or you can put it on
Ebay and have a couple idiots go into a bidding war and sell it for
$600. I like hamfests, and support them, but I know people who go for
the specific purpose of picking up a bargain and selling it on ebay
later.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940