-=> 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?


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