Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> 
> The new event will be called NEARFest and will basically be a
> replacement event for Hosstraders and expected to be equal in size, etc.
> 
> Great new for hams and others.
> 
Well, I am glad to see this happen, but as the Hosstraders guys said, it
takes some planning to pull one of these things off, and right away
there seems to be an issue:

http://www.nearfest.com/

©1998-2007 North East Art Rock Festival

So maybe they should call it Farscape...no, no...Fun Amateur Radio Fest
(FARfest)....

md