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Dayton Hamvention 2010
This past weekend I had the chance to make it out to Dayton, OH for Hamvention 2010. Dayton turned out to be a blast! I was able to find the Dentron MT-3000A tuner I’ve been looking for as well as found a hardly used Icom 91AD handheld. Meeting the vendors face to face was great until I encountered AES, which I will explain in another post. I heard that turnout was better than the past few years and just when I thought we had seen it all, there was yet another room to explore. Enjoy some photos.
Take AES off the list.
Posted by jeff in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2010
While at Dayton this weekend, I picked up an Icom T90A from the AES table. After thinking about it overnight, I changed my mind and decided having handheld D-Star capabilities would be a better decision, and returned the radio back to AES the following day. While I completely understood and had no problem with the 15% restocking fee, I was however faced with a hostile reaction from 2 AES employees at the show, who made me feel more like a criminal than a member of the ham community. If I would’ve known this is how I would be treated, I would’ve kept the radio and given it to Laurie.
Needless to say after the many purchases I have made with AES over the course of the last 11 years, I will no longer be giving them any further business.