Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club 2008 Bazaar This Saturday

This is the event that many of us have been waiting for. The Bazaar is where we play a great game of Musical Garages. Everyone has a chance to finally clear out all that wonderful junque that has been piling up. Even with all of our good intentions, we just never got around to building it, repairing it, modifying it or getting rid of it. Here is our chance. This event is a once-a-year happening and it is going to take place this Saturday morning, July 12, in the front yard of Marvin, KE6HTS. Marvin says that because of logistics, he just doesn't want to move all that great stuff from his place over to the Elks Lodge where we have held our Bazaars in the recent past.

Marvin lives at 408 Grove Lane in Santa Barbara. His Zip code is 93105. Here is a link to a Google Map for you to easily find how to get there.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=408+Grove+Lane,...

Just what sort of stuff can you expect to find at the Bazaar? How about just about every kind of radio related thing you can think of -- things like antennas, tower parts or complete units, radios that work, radios that almost work or used to work, all sorts of parts to build things with such as electronic components, wire, coax, insulators, telephone equipment, semiconductors, vacuum tubes, test equipment, computer related stuff, software, printers, memory, books and magazines, hardware, surplus military equipment, power supplies, soldering irons, older amateur radios and on and on.

There is also a Red Tag table where you may bring along a piece of gear that you don't particularly want to just toss on the pile but would prefer to ask a price for. The rules are that you or someone you appoint must be near your goodie to sell it for you and remove it after the event or any time before. Also, you get to keep 90% of what you are asking for it and SBARC gets to keep 10% of it. Hey, that's a pretty good deal.

The Bazaar runs from 8:00 am to noon. Be advised that the earliest bird gets the longest worm. So here is your chance to keep the little woman happy. Either she will be delighted that you have finally decided to clean out all that wonderful junque or she will be dancing up and down when she sees what trinket you have brought home with you! Yeah, sure.

Bring all your friends. The club needs the money. Speaking of which, we will have several of our favorite people acting as salesmen and you can make such a deal with them. Go ahead, insult them with a ridiculous offer. They'll bargain with you. Bring green or checks. We're not set up to take plastic. And another thing, don't be shy about taking home a whole bunch of stuff. What you don't use you can always bring back to next year's Bazaar. That just enhances the Musical Garages idea.

I plan on getting all the good stuff so if you really are thinking of taking home something special, better get there early. In the beginning of the event, you can look it all over and keep in mind what you can't live without. Then when the bell rings, run over to it and grab it and take it to one of our salesmen. They'll be obvious there. Another thing, after you pay for your item, take it over to your vehicle and lock it up in there and come back and shop some more. It's a terrible thing when something you paid for is then bought again by someone else and taken home.

See you all on Saturday.

73, Darryl, KF6DI