[Leaplist] Hamcation CD's and DVD's

[Phil Barnett]

John Simpson wrote:
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> On 2009-01-09, at 0228, Phil Barnett wrote:
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>> I ordered 100 DVD's and 200 CD's for hamcation burning goodness.
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>> The plastic shells were pretty cheap at the same place, but shipping 
>> was awful, so I just got the CD's. BOLO for cheap plastic cases.
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> what is "BOLO"?
>
Be on look out. Cop Lingo.
> and would it be easier to use paper envelopes? i've always been a fan 
> of them, and we can get 'em fairly cheap- i think the local wholesale 
> places carry them, and 300 should be fairly cheap- even the "computer 
> junk" vendors at the tailgates and hamcation usually sell them for $4 
> per hundred, i know i still have an un-opened bag of 100, and at least 
> one box of 100, all white, sitting on the shelf in the closet, and i'm 
> willing to donate them to the cause if we want to use them instead of 
> plastic boxes- so if worse comes to worst we only need to buy one 
> box/bag of 100.
>
The only problem with Sleeves instead of hard covers is that we have to 
print and stomp CD labels instead of printing CD Box Covers. I'm OK, 
either way, but I think the colored boxes display and sell better.
> more importantly:
>
> - - who's burning how many of which distros?
>
We haven't figured out who, but the what is pretty well nailed down.

100 Fedora 10 DVD.
100 Mint CD
100 Puppy with Ham Software CD.
> - - has anybody checked for a newer "ham distro", or does anybody 
> (tom?) want to have a(nother) go at mastering a new one?
>
Got it. It's a puppy Linux with the latest fldigi on it.
> - - i plan to bring my 857, a book pc and flat-screen monitor (the 
> same ones as last year), and we can do some digital- all we need is an 
> antenna on the roof, and hope that nobody else near us is going to 
> kill the signals when they demonstrate their million-watt amplifiers.
>
Tokyo High Power will not be there this year. That means they might only 
be running 100 watts on K4H. That would be a break for us.
> - - we probably need a computer for the front table, so people can try 
> out the CDs before they buy them.
>
Not a problem. Laptops abound.
> - - are we able to get a projector screen from somewhere this year, so 
> we can show linux (or even better, linux doing "ham stuff") on the big 
> screen?
>
We own a projector. I'll try to get a screen from work.

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