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Re: [TenTec] Hamfest Prize Question

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Hamfest Prize Question
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 02:00:00 -0500
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Ah, !@@#!

I sent that email from another computer (not my home one) and certainly did
NOT intend for it to go to the entire list.  Since I was using the web based
email from my ISP and not my home email program, I thought I had corrected
the address from the reflector default.  Obviously I did not.

Please, no further emails on the subject.  The matter is closed, dead and
buried.

My apologies to the entire list.

I really hate this default setting for this list!!!!

73, ron wn3vaw

"What's the point in being crazy if you can't have a little fun with it?"
-- Russell Crowe portraying John Nash, "A Beautiful Mind"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Valko - W8KC" <w8kc@comcast.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Hamfest Prize Question


I'll take a guess that you did not intend to send this email to the whole
reflector, but as you did, I'll share something with everyone.

A couple of the clubs that I belong to have discovered over the years that
our pre-swap tickets sell best when offered to the non-ham population as a
"raffle."  These advance tickets also sell for a dollar or two less than
they do on the day of the swap.

As much as we'd like to offer a ham rig as a top prize, it's WAY easier to
sell tickets to anyone (even hams!) with a cash prize.

You may not sell tickets in advance so the point may be moot.  Just wanted
to pass that along as our experience.

73! =paul= W8KC
Collector of Ten*Tecs and other fine plastics.
Visit the Virtual Ten*Tec Museum at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w8kc


----- Original Message -----
From: <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Hamfest Prize Question


> Hi Scott,
>
> This is kind of unofficial at the moment, but I wanted to sound you out on
> this before proceeding further.
>
> I've been talking with some of my club's officers about the prizes we're
> going to be offering at our hamfest in February, and how best to spend the
> prize money that's been allocated.  At present, the hamfest committee has
> budgeted about $1000 that they want to spend on three main prizes.  They'd
> really like to make the main prize an attractive HF radio within that
> budget but still have some decent 2nd & 3rd prizes.
>
> Of course, TenTec came to mind, in large part due to your excellent
> reputation (no, really, I'm not just buttering you up!), in large part
> because it's been a long time since anyone (except TT itself, or super big
> shows like Dayton) has featured a TT rig as a hamfest main prize.
> Specifically, we were thinking of the Argonaut V.  But the retail cost of
> the radio is a concern because it wouldn't leave much left in the budget
> for anything else.
>
> Is there any way that we could get or work out a small discount on the
> radio to make it affordable for the budget?
>
> One thing to consider, right now we mail about 1000 flyers to active
> amateurs in WPA and surrounding areas.  We don't just fold up the flyers
> and stick a stamp on them, but put them in envelopes -- less chance for
> the USPS to destroy them that way.  So one possibility would be, in
> exchange for a discount, would be to also place a TenTec ad or two in the
> envelopes with the flyers -- extra advertising in addition to whatever
> promos we put on the flyers themselves.
>
> What do you think?  And if there is a possibility of doing this, who do we
> approach formally and how do we go about it?
>
> Thanks again, and hope to see you at Dayton in May!
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
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