Anyone looking for hotels try and find something in Pflugerville, Round Rock, Hutto or even Georgetown. This is still close enough to me (in decreasing preference) and yes they will fill up... I have 5 bedrooms and three living areas and can easily accommodate MOA sized crowds.
I need to get on the ball huh. I still plan to have a place for folks to stay and provide transportation.
I'll even try and plan a NYC recruitment event in the upcoming weeks
Mouser agrees with you and marks them as NRND
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Toshiba/2SK170BLF/?qs=xiNPFU0yZ8%2fdgDypNarXsxXfvvVlxESHRZQuMtxXTf8%3d
Just make a TH pattern for the sot223 I'd bet it would work, just stand the part up vertical. The Vishay SMD SMM resistor line looks like what Stax uses. Anyways to each his own, seems like reasonable decisions...