08-24-14 11:55 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Computer Parts/Hamfests

 DS> {at}MSGID: 
 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
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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.
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 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
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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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