Skipp, How would inflating the prices be a "good" thing? This Hamfest is much higher that any other I have ever been to! Granted, it is the largest but does that make it right for the to double the charge for one more fleamarket space? $70.00 for one space is really high enough, I don't understand the $90.00 for the 3rd and 4th spaces and even higher for more! Amateur Radio operators are not rolling in dough, at least most of us. I don't understand the tiered pricing that they have. Most people give a discount for multiple of anything they sell, not the Hamvention crew.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Dayton Hamvention and other Amateur Flea Markets/Events 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. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
