Re: Dayton Hamvention and other Amateur Flea Markets/Events
> As I've told a number of people - it looks like they
> are trying to run it into the ground.
Why would you say that? As someone semi in the know about
the Previous 5 to 10 Dayton Flea Markets I've mentioned
some of the issues in play right here on the group. They're
trying like he11 to make people happy and go the extra
mile at Dayton.
In case you haven't noticed, the larger ham radio flea
markets in general have been smaller in size. I can see
clearly see the smaller size of/at many of the long time
Amateur Events I attend each year.
Right about the time Nextel and Cell Phones started a
trek to kill off Land Mobile Radio... all the old time
Two-Way Dealers went out of business or retired (sold
out their 800 freqs to Nextel). So you don't see nearly
the number of old time two way shop types at the flea
markets because we/they seem to be a much smaller number.
I'm happy to report that smart persons doing LMR (Land
Mobile Radio ... aka commercial two-way radio) and
providing true radio service are holding up fairly well.
> It's not dying fast enough for someone...
Actually attendance in general was up over some
previous years
> When you have THREE CARS in an entire section (the
> west one - farthest from the arena) on Sunday, that
> says something.
Yes it does... there are far fewer people doing two-way
radio as a business. One of the first years I was there
all those sections had non-stop Surplus Radio Dealers
dumping 800MHz trunking radios by the truck load. If
no one buys radios that are useless, the dealers don't
come back. Also the weather was pretty bad for 2 years
straight. Pouring rain for two of the three days...
The only trouble last year was Mendelsons trying to
strong-arm their own space deal at the last minute.
His last minute strong arm tatic didn't work like he
thought it would...
> I understand getting a reply from the committee is
> like pulling teeth this year. In past years,
> confirmations were received the year before. I know
> people who are STILL waiting on space confirmations
> and we're within two months.
I believe the Committee is not who you're supposed to
contact... more like the Flea Market Chairman/contact?
This year is a new Flea Market Chairman. Last years
Chairman my good friend Tom is just an email away. If
you hang out here I'll send him your comments and get an
answer. Wait for a follow up post in the next day or
two (from me).
chow for now...
skipp
Back to punching the clown... I mean trying to program
a 2 watt Pyramid Vehicle Repeater.
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