I agree with Skipp's review of Dayton... I left Saturday afternoon, mainly because I'd spent my allocations of money - but more so because I was staying at Motel Hell.
Skipp - I tried to call your cell Friday around noon, but got no answer. I guess the brat waits for another year. ;-) Now to get to playing around will all the new goodies! 73 all! Mark - N9WYS -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:46 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Dayton 2009 Re: Dayton 2009 > What does everyone who is here think? We try not to... > This is my first year with a booth, but the longtimers > are telling me that attendence is down again, > and purchases are slow. Actually, this year is up in a number of areas with the possible exception of inside sales... only because last year inside sales were reported by some vendors to be near record high amounts. This year has so far been informally reported to be a a very good year... > I know we still have all our MastrII stuff sitting here, > as well as most of the MSF stuff. Not even getting > offers. For a number of reasons, most of them unrealated to Dayton... > Duplexers seem to be stagnant too. Repeat of the above above comment. What'cha got and what booth are you in? I'm seeing Decibel & Motorola UHF duplexers selling in the $60 to $100 range (two and three cavity versions). There are decent quality Sinclair close space duplexers selling for $150 to $250 in addition to some very proud vendors who think they'll get $375 for the same product. There's a Paraflector (antenna) at one vendor booth I've seen purchased and resold at least twice already... very funny to see it move around the place. One booth has a large trailer full of surplus equipment selling for $1 per pound. Buying a boat anchor will cost you. We're having a great time here... last day in the Morning and then back to the salt mine. Friday Weather was very nice... dry and very warm. Many of the vampire and pasty white people started to lobster up in the mid day heat. Today (Saturday) was pretty good most of the time, nicely cooler. One or two large nasty fronts dumped buckets of rain for a reasonably short time... then we all nicely resufaced until about 4:15 when another front arrived. Most everyone was tired and had already started to wind down so it was just an early motivator to wrap up the day. Sunday is the big finish... Last Brat from the Cow-girl Drill Team (you have to have or be here to know about the CGDT) and then back on the healthy diet Monday morning. Can't tell you how pleasant the bathrooms smell when you wander in... Everyone's a pretty good mood so far. I've fallen off my Junk Ender's 12 step program and need rehab. cheers s. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.329 / Virus Database: 270.12.32/2118 - Release Date: 05/16/09 17:05:00
