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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
... the people in the rest of the country don't get less in terms of proportionate to their numbers, they get nothing at all.
It's not just the BVWS, there's the audiojumbles, camera fairs and many other things ...
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I'm afraid it's the 'statistics of small numbers' too. The wireless people and the audio people and the camera people operate independently of course. So within each individual community there might only be a very few events a year. Meeting the needs of ten percent of the community proportionately could involve staging 0.4 of a show.
I have an audio friend who relocated a few years ago to Fetlar
http://www.fetlar.org/. He loves it for the closeness to nature, the sense of community and the wonderful birdlife (he's a twitcher as well as a hi-fi buff) and he accepts that in return for all that he has to travel if he wants to get together with old friends. Because realistically we are not all going to go and see him. Last year a weekend of listening and eating and, I have to say, sipping too was organised at the beautiful Lopwell Barn
http://lopwellbarn.co.uk/ on the Devon/Cornwall border. My friend from Fetlar came - proof, if it were needed, that it can be done. Later this year we will have another Lopwell event and also one in the wilds of N Yorks
https://independenthostels.co.uk/mem...bunkhousebarn/. Neither is near me but I shall go to both.
Cheers,
GJ