Timonium Hamfest

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Mar 31 21:42:42 1999

At 09:42 AM 3/31/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>Chuck McManis wrote:
>
>> In my experience with Hamfests and swap meets is that your chance of
>> finding what you want goes down exponentially with time. Thus starting at
>> perhaps 6AM the curve plunges rapidly until about 8AM where it begins to
>> level off. (Cheesy graph to follow ...)
>>
>> Good Stuff --| *
>> | *
>> | *
>> | *
>> | *
>> | *
>> | **
>> | ***
>> | ****
>> | *******
>> Just Junk --| ***
>> +-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-->
>> 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 01
>> AM AM AM AM AM AM PM PM
>>
>
>Ah, but the pricing seems to follow the same curve :)! The SCMP kits I got a
>few years ago would have probably cost me a couple of dollars at the start,
>but I missed them until the end. At that point, they were free :).
>

    That's true but you'll miss 95% of the stuff by waiting until too late.
At a good hamfest those kits would have been long gone before 10:00 AM.

    Joe
Received on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 21:42:42 BST