so i heard the Tri-County ARC is doing their annual hamfest again and i havent been in a few years. last time i went i picked up a pretty decent MFJ tuner for like 12 bucks which was a score. wondering if its worth making the drive this year, its about 90 miles for me. anybody been recently, is the swap meet still decent or has it turned into mostly vendors selling new stuff at retail prices

went last year and honestly the tailgate swap meet was still pretty good early in the morning. like if you get there before 8am you can find some real deals, guys just trying to unload stuff from their shacks. i grabbed a nice old Drake speaker and a bunch of coax connectors for almost nothing. but yeah by 10 or 11 it does thin out and then its mostly the commercial tables. the club also does a pretty solid VE session and there was a talk on SOTA that was actually interesting

im also thinking about going, maybe we could carpool lol. i need to offload some gear anyway so might just grab a tailgate spot. do you know if they still charge for those or is it included with admission