festivals, flea markets, and surplus dealers

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 10:54:49 2002

Jon,

   I've had GREAT luck at the hamfests. My advice is to find a ham in your
area that goes to most of the hamfests and tag along with him. He can also
keep you posted on all the upcoming hamfests. It's also worth registering
as a dealer so that you can get in early. MOST of the buying and selling
occurs before the door ever opens to the public. I have a neighbor that's
a ham and he goes to most of the nearby hamfests to sellstuff. I go along
with him, get it early and then as he emptys his truck by selling stuff I
refill it with my purchases! It works out great!

  Joe


At 01:32 AM 2/14/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm rather new to the mailing list, and I poked through some of the
>previous messages on the site, but didnt see this one directly answered.
>I live in texas, and know of a few here haaug meet, first saturday, san
>antonio's 2nd sat, but is there a place where I can find out more of them
>located in this area (texas, oklahoma, arkansas, lousiana)? I figure here
>would be the best place to ask, because I'm really not interested in
>buying pc stuff, but love old unix equipment, and misc electronics. Any
>huge festivals that I should be going too every year that I'm not? (I go
>to trenton nj)... what about surplus places (I love to find junk at places
>that take computers to scrap them for metal... I get some awesome deals
>there)? Any help would be nice :)
>
>Thanks,
>jon
>
>
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