Your estimate is a little high but I understand your point (I stayed at a Fairfield Inn) but including meals (why go unless you are going to a nice restaurant) I spent out of my pocket about $1,000 or so. And I am not in any amateur related business so like many thousands of people attending, I don't go expecting ANY revenue, I go to see people, renew friendships, hear forum presentations, see new products and ask questions of experts from companies about products I use or might use in the future.
I attended the DARC "European" Dayton in Friedrichshafen and spent out of my pocket more than I want to put in writing! As you likely know the attendance is just a little less than Dayton but I go for the same reasons, maybe with the present state of the US economy and the difficulties of travel (I won't even go into the evils of the TSA) I might not go in 2012. Sure not everyone can afford to go, I have no idea whether Jack made money at Dayton or not, but he was always there in his booth. Heck almost all my friends are always at Dayton, if I was NOT there they would probably assume I was SK and they missed the announcement in QST. Larry From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Bill Parry; RM; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Beyond 2007 Version Hi Larry I doubt you will see a DXBase booth at Dayton. A booth cost $550 this year if memory serves correctly. A hotel room is $100-200 a night, lets split the difference and say $150. Transportation is another $150 (flight plus parking). So three nights in a hotel, transportation and booth charges equal $1150. Now you know why there was only 1 Logging program with a booth at the show this year (and I bet money he isnt there next year). Assuming I offer no discount (which isn't very safe assumption), I would have to sell 23 new licenses to break even (not even counting for my time). I have always said that I didn't take DXB over to get rich but I surely didn't take it over to lose a lot either. Just the cost of establishing the programming environment for the 1.09 release was more than the entire revenue I have made on sales. Again, I love doing it and its not an issue for me, but throwing another grand at it with little residual income to offset it isn't very wise. If I go next year, it will be (again) to work at the Flex Radio booth where my real income is derived. I was (and always will be) very happy to meet so many DXB users there this year. If I go next year I will post it on the reflectors so you can come by and chat, DXBase was actively being demo'ed at the Flex booth as I set up the "Dream Station" exhibit and of course what Dream Station is complete without DXB?? 73 Neal On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Larry E Price <[email protected]> wrote: I think we have all been pretty patient for several years now. When was the last time there was a Dxbase booth at Dayton where potential customers could see the program in action and existing customers could ask questions in person? Yes, there is good HELP available on this discussion group for existing fans of the program, but it is not the same as it 'used to be' when we could count on stopping by the "booth" in Dayton annually. I talked several of my colleagues into purchasing Dxbase over the years by taking them by the hand to a demo of the program so they could see the features. 73 Larry W4RA > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Parry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:08 AM > To: 'RM'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase Beyond 2007 Version > > Ron, > > Everybody is anxious for the newest greatest version. The fact is that > what > we have is working fine. I have been using DXBase since its inception > and > love the program. I think it is going to be great to have a new DXBase > Win 7 > version with lots of cool new stuff. Frankly, though, what I have > (DXBase > 2007) works really nice and I am pretty familiar with it. The support > that > you can get off this site is excellent. Just be patient...all will be > fine. > Incidentally I certainly be one of the first to buy the new iteration > of > DXBase when it comes out...just like I always have. > > Bill W5VX > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:dxbase- > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of RM > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Dxbase] DXBase Beyond 2007 Version > > I've been a long time DXBase user and supporter (approximately since > 1986) > and cannot see myself switching to another logging program. However, > all > four of my Windows machines are now running Win 7 (and will not ever go > back > to pre-Win 7). I have tried to create order to the many fine > enhancements/upgrades provided by the logging program users in planning > to > reinstall DXBase 2007 on the machine. I've given up trying to do this. > > What is the plan, if one still exists, for providing a DXBase XXXX in > the > near future??????? If one is planned, hopefully it allows the 2007 > version > log files to be easily loaded into the new software and incorporates > many of > the features that folks have provided to DXBase and the radio control > interface works with the legacy and the new radios. > > I've waited patiently for the new DXBase XXXX version, which hopefully > brings this outstanding logging program into today's world, to show up. > I've become concerned that I've haven't seen any communications on the > DXBase website which addresses the above and the planned delivery of > the new > version. In fact, I've not seen any 'official' discussion of the > planned > delivery in recent times. > > I prefer DXBase to any other DX type logging software that I've studied > or > installed. Most of those program developers really needed a course in > how > to create viable and usable human interfaces. > > Is there a Date Planed for DXBase XXXX? > > > Ron / NU1U > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. 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