It's generally been accepted for many years that if one ham has a component
that he doesn't need and another ham wants it, it will usually be given for
free. This culture has grown from the days when most shack equipment was
homebrew.
Hams also tend to help each other with projects, antenna farming etc.,
usually without payment.
At our local club, members often bring unwanted items along for
distribution, mostly for free. Sometimes if an item has some higher value, a
donation to club funds is expected.
Like other hobbies, we have "junk sales", where valued equipment can
sometimes be sold for silly prices.
I think that the above is where the "cheap" label has emerged from. I prefer
to think of hams as "thrifty". :-)
73,
Alan. G4GNX
-----Original Message-----
From: Rose
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:42 AM
To: Jim Lowman ; Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] "Cheap Hams" ???
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
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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.
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