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[Mark Fellhauer]

At 03:19 PM 8/3/2009, Scott Miller wrote:

>The knee-jerk reaction a lot of hams have against Chinese imports (no 
>matter that by now probably all of the Yaesus, Motorolas, and so forth are 
>made there) is exactly the reason I'm not taking these to hamfests.  The 
>SW division convention is only an hour from here, but it's not worth the 
>modest profit margin on these things to spend a weekend defending them 
>against armchair lawyers, and for whatever reason armchair lawyering seems 
>to fall somewhere between t-hunting and contesting as a popular ham 
>activity.  (Perhaps it can be made a Field Day activity, with points 
>awarded for FCC rules quoted out of context, obsolete regulations cited 
>from one's dimly-remembered license test 30 years ago, and willfully 
>misunderstood passages.)

Speaking of the SW Division Convention, does anyone know what's going on 
there?  Up until a few weeks ago the Santa Barbara ARC had a notice on 
their website that the convention was cancelled...

I'd love to go this year, but I'm getting married on the 29th and just 
can't swing the time off...

73,

Mark
KC7BXS