31 Mar
1999
31 Mar
'99
1:42 p.m.
At 09:42 AM 3/31/99 -0800, you wrote:
Chuck McManis wrote:
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
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 ...)
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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 :).