16 Jun
2000
16 Jun
'00
12:49 a.m.
On June 15, R. D. Davis wrote:
...but this has been going on for years! I've always attributed it
to the unfortunate proliferation of PCs. Most of the good hamfests
have turned into new-windoze-hardwarefests.
I don't know about you...but when I go to a hamfest, I want to see
rows and rows of 70-year-old guys selling cool old
Heathkit/Collins/Hallicrafters transceivers, HUGE RF power
amplifiers, and commercial-quality (but homebrewed) yagi
antennas...not row after row of taiwanese folks selling new, cheap-ass
windoze hardware that would better be sold via mail-order...which is all I
see at hamfests nowadays.
I, for one, absolutely LOVE eBay. That's where I find all the radio
gear I'm looking for that doesn't show up at hamfests anymore because
of the damned windoze lemmings!!
-Dave McGuire
I would add
to this another pet dislike I have for E-bilk (much better
name, BTW). To my eyes, they are in large part (sheer unmitigated greed
makes up the other part) responsible for the decline in quality and
quantity of equipment that used to show up at hamfests and other
electronic-oriented swap meets.
You've noticed this decline as well? :-( Interesting hackish things
seem to be getting more and more difficult to find a hamfests. The
last one I went to had very little, and most I've been to, I've seen 
16 Jun
16 Jun
5:09 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
I don't know about you...but when I go to a
hamfest, I want to see
rows and rows of 70-year-old guys selling cool old
Heathkit/Collins/Hallicrafters transceivers, HUGE RF power
amplifiers, and commercial-quality (but homebrewed) yagi
antennas...not row after row of taiwanese folks selling new, cheap-ass
Sorry to have to break it to you, but those guys sold all their stuff and
then died.
:)
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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7:41 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
> I don't know about you...but when I go to a
hamfest, I want to see
> rows and rows of 70-year-old guys selling cool old
> Heathkit/Collins/Hallicrafters transceivers, HUGE RF power
> amplifiers, and commercial-quality (but homebrewed) yagi
> antennas...not row after row of taiwanese folks selling new, cheap-ass
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Sorry to have to break it to you, but those guys sold
all their stuff and
then died.
Those guys are accumulators, not collectors. Typically, they're selling
stuff that they got while it was still current, and that they got for its
usefulness, not collectibility. They don't REALLY want to part with any
of it.
Many die before selling all the stuff. You wouldn't want to know what the
estate does with "all that worthless junk". The excutor of my will has
informal instructions to hold a garage sale and announce it here.
We are not all dead yet.
As to the Taiwan new stuff: are you familiar with the process of
"eutrophication" that lakes go through? It seems like any flea market
that is around long enough attracts permanent vendors of new stuff. More
and more; until they choke out everything else.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
7:19 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Sorry, Fred. I didn't mean to excelerate your demise ;)
I'm just commenting that the supply of stuff runs out. It's the same
reason you don't see Hollerith machines and Grammaphones at the ham fests.
They all got sold years ago.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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Sorry to have to break it to you, but those guys
sold all their stuff and
then died.
Those guys are accumulators, not collectors. Typically, they're selling
stuff that they got while it was still current, and that they got for its
usefulness, not collectibility. They don't REALLY want to part with any
of it.
Many die before selling all the stuff. You wouldn't want to know what the
estate does with "all that worthless junk". The excutor of my will has
informal instructions to hold a garage sale and announce it here.
We are not all dead yet.
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