31 Mar
1999
31 Mar
'99
3:42 a.m.
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 ...)
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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 :).