Love 'em or hate 'em...

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Thu Nov 16 17:34:05 2000

On November 16, Mike Ford wrote:
> >> Wonder what happened to the swapmeets/hamfests/etc?
> >
> > Hamfests? Hah. Hamfests turned into "new taiwanese PC clone hardware
> >dealer fests" years ago.
>
> Not so in SoCal, the four regional hamfests, Santee, Fontana, Pomona, and
> TRW, all are old style drop the tailgate, empty the trunk events. Real
> "dealers" are less than 50% of the crowd and a good half of them are radio
> related or tools.
>
> Computer fairs are the only all dealer events, and we even still have quite
> a few local swapmeets that are at least 25 to 50% casual sellers.

  Jeeze, I'm jealous. Here on the east coast things are much more
bleak hamfest-wise.

    -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 17:34:05 GMT