{"id":4977,"date":"2010-05-31T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2010-05-31T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:42:14","slug":"time-to-head-north-to-hamcom-2010-in-plano-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"Time to Head North to HamCom 2010 in Plano, TX?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>It’s almost that time of year again, the annual trek north up IH-35 to Plano, to attend the largest Hamfest in Texas.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

HamCom 2010 will be Friday, June 11th and Saturday, June 12th.<\/strong>\u00a0 But if you want the best deals from the flea market areas, you best be there on Friday morning when they open.\u00a0\u00a0 The event is more crowded on Saturday, for obvious reasons, but most of the vendors arrive on Thursday\u00a0 night, or Friday morning, ready to wheel and deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parking is free, admission is $10 at the door.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hotel room info is available from the event website, www.hamcom.org<\/a> by clicking on the Hotels link.<\/p>\n

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I’ve seen some hams make great deals on Friday, then turn around and sell them to another ham on Saturday for a profit! Or trade in what they got on something even better.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One eyewitness\u00a0example of an expert in action, was watching Jeff N5MNW last year.<\/strong>\u00a0 He strolled up to a flea market vendor, looked over their selection and asked the wife (of the ham) how much for this box of tools.\u00a0 She said $5.\u00a0\u00a0 Before Jeff made it back to the building where his wife, Lori, was holding down his multiple tables, he sold 75% of the tools separately to other hams who saw what he was carrying, and he ended up keeping the one tool from the batch that he wanted, and making about $25 on the deal.\u00a0\u00a0 Then he found a ham giving away those connectors you use\u00a0 with the fiberglass pole sets, bought the whole box for another $5, and started selling them for a $1 or two each over the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

Last year, Al Field KE6LGE and myself (N5NTG) rode up in style in his RV<\/strong>, and camped out on the grounds of the event for free.\u00a0 We drove up Thursday afternoon, and came back on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 This year, Al doesn’t have his RV for us to use, so we’ll drive up in Al’s van on Thursday afternoon, spend the night at the hotel nearby, and show up bright and early Friday morning for the fun to begin.\u00a0\u00a0 We’ll stay around thru the close of the event around 4pm on Saturday, grab a bite to eat on the way out of town, and head back south to San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Al says we have room for a couple more hams to ride up with us in the van<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 You can help us with gas and bunk on the floor of our room, or reserve get your own room.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We’re staying at the Ramada Inn Plano, for $59.95\/night +tax, for two nights.\u00a0 Rooms with just 1 bed are $10 less a night.\u00a0 This is a special rate arranged by HamCom that you won’t match thru the web, and can’t get by calling the national reservation line.\u00a0 You have to call the hotel direct for this rate.<\/p>\n

If you think you want to go, we’re taking off around noon on Thursday<\/strong> (our current plans, subject to change) so that we can up there during daylight hours.\u00a0\u00a0 We might scout around for some other hams to see if we can get a sneak peak of what’s to come, maybe hang out at the hotel’s swimming pool, or just get some sleep.<\/p>\n

Call Lee @ 210-771-7075 (cell) direct, or email at <\/strong>info@sanantoniohams.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Time is running out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s almost that time of year again, the annual trek north up IH-35 to Plano, to attend the largest Hamfest in Texas.\u00a0\u00a0 HamCom 2010 will be Friday, June 11th and Saturday, June 12th.\u00a0 But if you want the best deals from the flea market areas, you best be there on Friday morning when they open.\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[588,806,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}