08-24-14 11:55 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Computer Parts/Hamfests   
      
    DS> @MSGID: <53FB1284.1046.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    DS> Ed,   
      
    EV>I did it mostly to have fun watching folks guess if it was worth paying   
    EV>me 50 cents for one of the bags.   
      
    DS>   Hams can be some of the biggest cheapskates you'll ever   
    DS> find...but most would prefer to use the word "frugal".  I've   
   -snip-   
   Howdy! Daryl,   
      
   I am a Cheap LID of the Seventh Degree! as if You didn't know that.   
      
    EV>The SECOND reason was that my wife asked me to get rid of some of the   
    EV>stuff that I had hoarded.   
      
    DS>   Yeah, got to keep the XYL happy.   
      
   Yes Sir!, but I really haven't missed any of the stuff I stuffed in   
   those three paper sacks (yet).   
   Probably won't miss them ever.   
      
    EV>I had fun being on the other side of the table once.   
      
    DS>   Sort of like when one visits ARRL HQ, and works W1AW...you   
    DS> get to be on the other side of the pile-up.   
      
   Hey!, those Hams who know who I am wouldn't be in that pile-up.   
      
   Especially after I tell the first contact who the operator at the Key   
   is.   
      
    DS>   On another note, it looks like that data radio may not arrive   
    DS> until sometime next month...so the packet door on the BBS   
    DS> probably won't be activated until sometime in September.   
      
   O.K., Thanks.   
   I suppose You would have to have a .JPG of my License before I could   
   use Packet Radio on Your BBS?   
      
    DS>   And, speaking of hamfests, there are 2 hamfests in Arkansas   
    DS> in September...Mena and Little Rock.   
   -snip-   
    DS> ride around the complex. It's billed as "the best little   
    DS> hamfest west of the Mississippi"...and it's practically one of   
    DS> the oldest ones...now 45 years running. I've never been to   
    DS> Mena, but many folks from the Arklatex region go each   
    DS> year...always the weekend after Labor Day Weekend.   
      
    DS>   As for Little Rock, it's much smaller than it once was. While   
    DS> still billed as the All Arkansas Hamfest, it's only on Saturday   
   -snip-   
      
   I haven't been to a local Hamfest in years, I may go to either the   
   Louisville Hamfest now held in Bullitt County, or at Bedford, IN this   
   year.   
      
    DS>   The Russellville hamfest is better, and I like to go to the   
    DS> nearby Whattaburger across from Arkansas Tech University   
    DS> afterwards...but there's usually a long wait to get served, as   
    DS> the place is so popular!! It first opened in 1967, and still   
    DS> does a land office business.   
      
   I will have to do a Search for Whattaburger to see what I am missing.   
      
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