As per usual, everything planned did not come into being..
Grand prize was NOT a Tesla....
Police were not called because of the parking problem?
Not a single potential ham passed? the written exam..
No one was shot.. I did notice red or green laser dots on my chest from time to time.
However we did have good weather, and some interesting conversations.
Everyone left before the 1pm strip show started...
Next time we need to have Russel bring his guitar Patricia and Hazel sing more Christian songs.. That we did need.
The 50/50 brought $74 and payout was $37... i believe based on that we had about? 14-16 people buy tickets. i suspect from a car count of 25 cars in the lot, there were about 50 total people.. I had hoped for 100...
But the last State convention I attended in Salina they had 40 people.. 2 years ago..
I did not buy any tickets..
I supplied the Penny's and eggs. And the hot dog buns...
I bought more than we sold. my actual costs to the club is as follows.
3 Dozen eggs????????????????????? $1.72 * 3 = $5.16
4 packages hot dog buns... $1.46 * 4.= $5.843 eight packs of hot dogs..? $1.29 * 3.= $3.87?????????????????????????????????????????? TOTAL? =? $14.78
I bought the canopy, made signs, brought 2 rolls of paper towels, mustard, catsup, personal hand held radios.. table and folding chair..and a sales lady to hawk raffle tickets.
I believed others spent more money that I did, I did spend more but the extra's I'm keeping for my own personal use and
Therefore I am donating all my real expense... $14.78 to the club..?
Mark at Radio shack donated that Clock... it had a $20 price tag on it..?
Our big loss-expense was that porta-potty...?
You know for $125 we could buy 2-3 tarps, some PVC tubing for a frame and a couple of 5 gallon buckets...? put it at the base of the tower... doesn't even need a roof, just let it exhaust up into the tower.. and get it to disappear at 1pm.
Lesson learned... Hopefully next year, I think we'll do better...
I am suggesting we post on Facebook:520 CrewKansas Ham RadioKansas Preppers
Some sort of? "official" thank you to all that attended, good food, beautiful day, lots of treasures for sale, Thanks to Mark and Shawn at B&H sales -the old Derby Radio Shack... Let it be known to those that didn't attend that it was a "success" and we'll be seeing more people next year...?
?Larry W8LM
Larry Macionski