Hey Y'all. It is Christmas. Let's get together and help someone this year. Do you know of a ham that needs a little help this year? It can be a new ham , an old ham or a very young ham. We want to help them get some gear this Christmas. First, to nominate someone please email their call sign, name , address, phone number and even email address to christy@maintradingcompany.com . Please be sure to include a little bit about the ham in need and why they need a little help this year. It is perfectly OK to nominate yourself but we may have to do a little verification so we made need some references if you are in need yourself. All Nominations must be in by 12-17-18

Second, we have created this "product" on our page right here. This "Help a ham" Product only costs $1.00 . You do not have to know anyone  that needs help to do this. You can buy one or as many as you want. You will get a receipt for your purchase. This is probably not tax deductible

On December 20th we will start looking at all of the "nominations." Our panel of Judges (the employees of MTC) will pick a winner

We will total up all of the dollars spent and we will kick in $500.  We will donate one hundred percent of the dollars raised minus any of the credit card/paypal fees, which should average three percent, toward the purchase price (at dealer cost) of any products we sell or can acquire. We will also be in contact with a few manufacturers to see if they can do anything to make this money go as far as possible. We will try and find out what kind of gear this lucky ham or hams need and get it to him or her for Christmas. We will post the dollar amount raised on our site and on our facebook page as well as announce the winner. We would also like to announce all of the folks that donated on our page and on our facebook page. Please include your callsign if you have one. If you would rather remain anonymous just type that in the order comments. We may change something up here to keep it legal and all so check back often. If you make this purchase you will not receive anything other than a receipt via email. You may however get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing you helped some ham at Christmas

 This is our Third year to do this. We have been able to help several Hams with the money raised in both previous years to get some needed equipment and get on the air

Thank you all, God Bless and Happy Holidays

Richard and Christine Lenoir

And the staff at MTC

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