Another "aside" ... take your not-too-old Amateur Radio magazines with you
when you go to the doctor, dentist, barber, etc ... ask if you may leave a
few there ... neat way to go "trolling" for new hams! Hint ... put a
label(s) inside with information on how to contact your local club, and/or
class schedule 73 - Mark ... AA6DX
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Loranger <we6w@qsl.net>
To: David A. Case <dc422@bard.edu>
Cc: Dale L. Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org>; Bruce Makas <k1my@nlis.net>;
antennas@qth.net <antennas@qth.net>; CQ-CONTEST@contesting.com
<CQ-CONTEST@contesting.com>; dx@ve7tcp.ampr.org <dx@ve7tcp.ampr.org>;
towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>; yccc@contesting.com
<yccc@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, December 12, 1997 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Re: [YCCC] Re: [TowerTalk] old books
>I visited a really neat used book store last weekend.
>
>Unfortunately many of the outdated Electronics book were
>still going for $20.
>
>Many of the books there were library cast-aways. So even
>if you give to a library, the books could eventually end up
>sitting on a shelf forever, at obscene prices.
>
>Give to your local friends. Give to fellow hams. Set up
>a library at your club. Or drop off at one of the swap
>meets or vendors at the ham conventions. There was a
>guy at Pacificon selling books at 1/10 the going rate.
>"Gets them off the shelf and read by someone.", he said.
>
>Give to readers, not collectors.
>-Ed sk ee
>
>
>David A. Case wrote:
>>
>> There are lots of used book stores that would buy your books for various
>> amounts of cash. The used book market is surprisingly large, and
>> widespread (your books might be resold in Scandanavia.)
>>
>> In college, at the end of the semester, I would go through the trash and
>> pick up textbooks. I would sell them for either credit or cash, and I
>> financed most of my library like that.
>>
>> If one bookstore turns a book down, than try another.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Dave/KA1NCN///
>>
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>> Submissions: antennas@qth.net
>
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>HW-8,OHR-100, Pixie2, Johnson Viking II, Drake TR-3
>QRP-L#1068,ARCI#9397,Norcal#2227,ARS#275,AR#112 grid CM88ok
>http://www.qsl.net/we6w (From Non-Ham to Extra in one Day.)
>
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