-=> Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-   
      
    TL>Haha, yeah I just get half a dozen tickets, if I'm staying for the raffle   
    TL>(haven't stayed long enough at the last couple of hamfests I've attended).   
      
    DS>   It's rare I'll spend that much money on tickets...especially with   
    DS> antenna prohibitions, meaning I can't have RF gear. But, if someone   
    DS> buys $100 or so worth of tickets, if they win a big radio prize, they   
    DS> more than have their money back, especially when they try to sell it.   
    DS> So much of "no pecuniary interest". :P   
      
   Yeah - I was thinking in Huntsville, if I win that $1200 radio I would turn   
   around and trade it for TWO mobile rigs. :-) But I didn't win and spent about   
   $600 instead... ;-)   
      
    DS>   Several years ago, when I ran a local traders net, there was one ham   
    DS> who listed the same few items week after week. I never had a problem   
    DS> with that individual. Yet, there was another one who had several   
    DS> rotating sets of items, as it were. Rumor had it that he was doing it   
    DS> as a business, which is a violation of the rules. He confronted me   
    DS> once, and said "you're accusing me of running a business"...to which I   
    DS> said "I'm not accusing you of anything. But, if the shoe fits, wear   
    DS> it!!".   
      
   I'd like to get on a traders net... So far the only nets I've signed in on   
   have been a local 'emergency training' net on Monday nights and the daily   
   weather net where people report their official station information. Others   
   of us check in as well, even though we don't have official stations (that's   
   something I wouldn't mind having too).   
      
   There's a morning drive net in Memphis that I can hear SOMETIMES - *IF* the   
   band opens up. Never tried to sign in though because never heard a break in   
   the CHAT during the time I'm driving.   
      
    DS>   A few nights later, I had a bizarre dream (I don't recall what I ate   
    DS> for dinner, and I doubt I was being cannibalistic in eating ham (hi   
    DS> hi)),   
      
   LOL - now that's funny :-)   
      
    DS>    but I dreamed that I was contacted by the FCC, about "a ham   
    DS> violating Part 97 on the Traders Net -- do you have proof??". In this   
    DS> dream, I submitted the logs to the FCC, and a few weeks later, on   
    DS> Newsline (again in this dream), there was a report of "An Arkansas ham   
    DS> was hit with a notice of liability for forfeiture for violation of   
    DS> Party 97.113.A.3" (you can list ham radio items you want to buy, sell,   
    DS> or trade...provided such activity isn't done on a regular basis). That   
    DS> is one dream I wished would have come to pass!!   
      
   :-D   
      
    DS>   This ham also sat at one end of the couch, and his son at the other,   
    DS> and they were talking to each other on the local wide aread coverage   
    DS> repeater, with HT's. I'm still trying to figure out what purpose that   
    DS> served. :P   
      
   Sounds like when two people are texting in the same room. :-) Except with the   
   texting they are whispering.    
      
   Maybe they wanted to get some CHAT started?   
      
      
   ... Leavin' a tagline over here boss.   
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