After 64 years in the hobby I still don't understand where this idea that hams are cheap comes from! I simply don't accept this urban legend.
Jim is certainly correct about the funds changing hands at Visalia. My Lady ... Rose of [email protected] ... hasn't been able to make the trip from Montana because of health reasons, for a couple but the last time she was there with her tables she came home with $3500+ in orders! Took her many weeks to fill them. (:-) She's free of cancer now, and steadily recovering. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Jim Lowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously you've never been to the International DX Convention in Visalia > that happened last weekend. > > These guys (and ladies) are dead serious, and are not afraid to spend some > money. Don't confuse them with the guy at the local swapmeet who saved the > 50 cents on a bar of soap so that he could haggle with a seller to get a > dollar mic for his half buck. > > It was obvious from who the vendors were - most of them hawking high-end > products like amplifiers, antennas and the like - and what they didn't have > on display. Even at the Yaesu and Icom booths, there was nary a thing that > would appeal to the shack-on-the-belt members of the fraternity. > > Back in the late 90s, when US Tower was located in Visalia, they would > have an open house and lunch for anyone from the convention who stopped > by. It was not unusual for some of the visitors to pull out checkbooks or > plastic for thousands of dollars worth of purchases. > > I'm sure that Eric and crew took lots of orders for the K-Line and > KX3-Line products. > > 73 de Jim - AD6CW > > On 4/21/2015 4:54 PM, David Cole wrote: > >> Yeah right... Never going to happen... Hams are without a doubt the >> cheapest people I have ever met. >> >> > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
