Ok...it's been more than 24 hours...

[Bill V WA7NWP]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM, David Flood <davidf4 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Where are all the "I got this neat toy / great deal / piece of junk" or even "I had fun" reports from Puyallup?  Those of us who stayed home and did other things need to live vicariously through you'all!

I'll play.   (I'll always play...)

Looked like more cars parking then usual.  I think sellers were up and
buyers were down.  Wasn't squished like other years.

HRO was there but seemed to have less stacks then before.  They didn't
have the 220 radio I was shopping for.  (I ordered it and it should be
here tomorrow... - Anybody hear the Gold Mtn packet repeater lately?)

Maybe showing up over an hour past opening time I missed the best
stuff.  Picked up some oldies (1270 TNC's, etc) at dirt cheap prices.

The normal booths were upstairs.  I did my bit to support the DX
announcements on 147.000 MHz.  Ran out of time to visit thoroughly
with everybody there.

Only 7 of us showed up for lunch at Red Robin.   They make a killer Hurricane...

Stopped at Frys on the way home.    Maybe if I'd found more treasures
at Puyallup I wouldn't have spent so much at Frys.  On the other hand
- I only picked up what was on the list so it would have been
expensive regardless...   I do now have a four slot "USB" interfaced
drive box with 1.5 TB.  More on that later besides the note that I'm
good for my disk needs for a couple months.

I also picked up a HD Media Player Live - haven't power it up yet but
it looks to e everything the Radio Shack Netgear version wasn't.

Looking forward now to the Linuxfest NW...

73
Bill - WA7NWP