[CQ-Contest] Dayton Hamvention Future?

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I will agree with both. Dayton does have appeal to hams beyond the "fly first class or don't fly at all" club, but will also say;

Forgawdsake! Shower daily and wear clean clothes!

Nothing hurts the image of ham radio more than foul-smelling ogres in dirty clothes. 

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> On Nov 16, 2015, at 17:18, K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
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> I'll stand up in defense of the Dayton Flea Market. Unless you take a very narrow view of what constitutes ham radio stuff (by excluding desktop PC's, for example), there is not all that much non-electronic stuff out there. Sure, there is a lot of stuff that would have been good dumpster material decades ago, but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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> It does, however, make a big difference if you're driving or flying. If you are limited to buying (or selling) stuff that will fit in a suitcase and still go through TSA, you are very limited. Which is why the flea market at Orlando is far less interesting than that at Dayton. A snowbird like myself has had a good time socializing and checking out some exhibits at Orlando, but being limited to what will fit in a car headed north in the spring along with all our other worldly possessions means I'm not going to be buying physically big stuff. Nor will I be bringing any such stuff to sell. 
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> OTOH for years I've been selling stuff at the Mad River Radio Club's flea market spot. Most years I'm able to make my XYL very happy by coming home with more money and less junk than I left with. And keeping the junk pile at home down to a dull roar is a good thing.
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> Sure, I'd like nicer bathrooms and non-erupting sewer lines at HARA.  But for those of us within reasonable driving distance, it still fits the bill very well.
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> See you in both Orlando and Dayton!
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> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2015 10:54 am
> Subject: [CQ-Contest]  Dayton Hamvention Future?
> 
> 
> Agree 100% with Bob. Plus it seems like half the stuff in the flea market is
> non-ham radio related stuff. It's understandable why DARA would sell these spots
> to non-hams because they can make more money. I'm sure the local non-ham types
> who sell stuff at normal flea markets take advantage of this because they know
> they will have a huge audience to sell their trinkets.
> 
> The question to ask is
> does DARA want quantity (i.e. attendance) vs quality. ( a premier ham radio
> event)
> 
> Jeff
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