[SEDXC] Fwd: Hosstraders - Is It Just a Memory (Part I)

[Ed Tanton]

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>Subject:      Hosstraders - Is It Just a Memory (Part I)
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>I'm sure there are very few hams and electronic hobbyists within 300 miles 
>of Southern New Hampshire who have never been to the Hosstraders flea 
>market at least once in their lives. Some of us have been going since the 
>mid 1970s and I'm sure that the majority of attendees will say 
>unequivocally that it is the best tailgating swap fest there is - bar 
>none! The original "Hosstraders; Joe Demaso, K1RQG, Bob Tiffany W1GWU and 
>Norm Blake WA1IVB have been running this landmark event every May for over 
>25 years (and since 1984, in October as well). By their own calculations 
>they have raised over one million dollars to benefit the Shriners 
>Hospitals for sick and injured children in Boston, Springfield and 
>Montreal. Truly an outstanding accomplishment.
>
>There are many of us who have seen Hosstraders grow to a small tailgate 
>flea market in a Seabrook NH parking lot to the magnificent Deerfield 
>Fairgrounds (with an unforgettable side trip to Kingston NH in 1986), to 
>the Rochester Fairgrounds aka "Rainchester" 1993-1999, and most recently 
>in 2000 to the beautiful Hopkinton State Fairgrounds just a short ride up 
>I-89 from Concord NH. The Hosstraders is more than a flea market - it is a 
>community; a family if you will, with a weekly equipment swap net on 75 
>meters in addition to the semi-annual get-togethers.
>
>We all have tons of personal memories from many years of going to 
>Hosstraders and loads of great stuff in our ham shacks, work benches or 
>computer rooms to show for it. We've had a whole lot of lot of fun in the 
>process and Hosstraders has become a very important part of our lives - a 
>cultural event we can look forward to through the long hard cold New 
>England winter. It has been a true rite of spring every year and even now 
>that the Fall 2002 Hosstraders is only a day in the past as I write this 
>we are all looking forward to the Spring 2003 event.
>
>But will there be an event next spring or for that matter ever again? This 
>remains to be seen. It has been the Hosstraders custom to print the next 
>years dates on the tickets every year but if you were there last October 
>4th or 5th and looked at yours you may have wondered why there were no 
>2003 dates on it.
>
>To find out why, read Part II...................
>
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73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>

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