Steve:
You know the answer to this one. He had an "unfair advantage" because his
ticket was marked "FLEAMARKET." He bought a space and therefore gets to
"deal" long before us common folk.
This is no secret.... it's been done for many years.
That's life...
73,
perry
At 07:10 AM 5/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Grrrrr.. At 8:05AM, I was standing in the mist of an angry crowd waiting for
>them to open the gate. They didn't let us in until 8:20 until after the mob
>was about ready to storm the fence. How did you manage to sneak in?
>
>Steve N4LQ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul R. Valko <prvalko@oakland.edu>
>To: Paul Valko <pvalko@ci.auburn-hills.mi.us>
>Cc: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:40 AM
>Subject: [TenTec] Found in the Dayton Fleamarket...
>
>
>>
>>
>>At 8:05am on Friday morning, I found myself walking through the fleamarket
>>over by the big multi-vendor tent.
>>
>>Lucky Me! I had a "FLEAMARKET" pass and got in there to walk around at
>>7am.
>>
>>As I slowly strolled through a far back corner, I glanced into a fellows
>>station wagon.
>>
>>I blinked.
>>
>>I blinked again, hard.
>>
>>I reached into my wallet and pulled out some greenbacks.
>>
>>The guys that owned the space were buzzing about the first sale of the
>>day... what did he want? What's he buying?
>>
>>With total silence, as to not possibly wake me up - should it only be a
>>dream - I reached into the cluttered station wagon, and pulled out... a
>>Ten*Tec Model 200 VFO.
>>
>>Thus completing the collection of Ten*Tec's 1973 forray into the
>>Novice-Class station equipment. A model RX-10 receiver, a model TX-100 (a
>>TUBE-based transmitter) and the Model 200, the external VFO for the
>>TX-100.
>>
>>Less than one hour after walking into the flea-market, another Holy Grail,
>>found.
>>
>>73! =paul= W8KC
>>Collector of Ten*Tecs and other fine plastics
>><http://www.acs.oakland.edu/~prvalko>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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