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Who's here and what are you looking for?
I'm here.
Not really looking for anything big. Now, if someone wants to get something for me, out of the goodness of their hearts, there are a couple of things I can think of...
Dayton?? Goddamn it, I'm in Akron. No wonder I can't find the place...
Some of the sellers here are high as a kite WRT prices, especially for busted-up test gear.
suddenseer
05-15-2015, 10:27 AM
Some of the sellers here are high as a kite WRT prices, especially for busted-up test gear.Watch the prices drop as the clock ticks. Saturday, and if it is still unsold on Sunday, maybe there is a good reason for it.
Watch the prices drop as the clock ticks. Saturday, and if it is still unsold on Sunday, maybe there is a good reason for it.
Today's reason is: "Slightly rained in!"
A cell moved through the area with just a few minutes warning. Many vendors were away from wares left unattended in the backs of their pickups.
And they think they can get full market value for dirty, rusty stuff.
suddenseer
05-15-2015, 02:57 PM
Today's reason is: "Slightly rained in!"
A cell moved through the area with just a few minutes warning. Many vendors were away from wares left unattended in the backs of their pickups.
And they think they can get full market value for dirty, rusty stuff.Despite moving the event from April to May, this is Dayton. How many hamventions have you attended without a drop all 3 days?
W2NAP
05-15-2015, 02:58 PM
no shitcano yet?
K7SGJ
05-15-2015, 03:02 PM
Dayton?? Goddamn it, I'm in Akron. No wonder I can't find the place...
Akron? When you leave, be sure to turn off the lights.
Today's reason is: "Slightly rained in!"
A cell moved through the area with just a few minutes warning. Many vendors were away from wares left unattended in the backs of their pickups.
And they think they can get full market value for dirty, rusty stuff.
Yeah, some of them do.
I guess I didn't spot you all day... thought I did at one point, but I wasn't sure and you didn't respond when I called you, so I guess not.
Did see W4RLR. Walked right past me, down in the arena by the Kenwood area (which seems a little emptier than it did last year, even though it's roughly the same space). Now, I'm not sure if he didn't recognize me... or he did...
suddenseer
05-15-2015, 09:41 PM
I recognized Fred, even though he may not be a better person for it. We had a nice ham meeting around the dinner table. Too much food, and iced tea were consumed. Those of you not present were talked about.
Round 2 coming up shortly. Hopefully the rain will hold off until I'm done walking the flea market. Ron, I'll stop by the WACOM spot again and see if I see you there.
Round 2 coming up shortly. Hopefully the rain will hold off until I'm done walking the flea market. Ron, I'll stop by the WACOM spot again and see if I see you there.
Yeah, I ended up there for a good hour, waiting for Mike to work his way down after the Legal forum. We ended up Berting with the guys for a good bit, helped them close up shop.
Should be back there circa noon, Norma N3YJJ insisted we join the guys for lunch. I never argue with a wife, even if it is N3TIR's.
The PTT on my ICW32A decided to break yesterday, so I'm basically sans radio today.
And before you ask...
Berting = BS'ing
K7SGJ
05-16-2015, 08:22 AM
And before you ask...
Berting = BS'ing
I'm glad you clarified that. I thought you were out bad mouthing contests and trying to get some students to love you.
That's why I went back and clarified it. I realized that there could be two ways to look at that phrase.
By the way...
I noticed a sign in the entranceway of the Silver Arena today. Now, I know a lot of you will react to this in disbelief, and I too will believe it when I see it happen. So I took a picture of the sign, and I'll post it sometime tomorrow, after I get home and have a chance to download the pictures from my camera.
"Sneak Peek -- Renovations in 2016!" Accompanied by some artists rendering of the "new" HARA Arena.
On Edit: And here it is...
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K7SGJ
05-16-2015, 04:37 PM
By the way...
I noticed a sign in the entranceway of the Silver Arena today. Now, I know a lot of you will react to this in disbelief, and I too will believe it when I see it happen. So I took a picture of the sign, and I'll post it sometime tomorrow, after I get home and have a chance to download the pictures from my camera.
"Sneak Peek -- Renovations in 2016!" Accompanied by some artists rendering of the "new" HARA Arena.
A slit trench with an awning?
Coming soon - Enhanced Ticket Prices!
I would be happy if they put up Paradise and paved the parking lot, but any improvement is welcomed.
Scored a couple good deals today - one was on a Tektronix PG509 Pulse Generator plugin and another was a CPI CP2500 remote-mountable CB. It's the mobile version of their CP2000 base rig. I can use the trunk unit's Interface boards as a model for a pair of homebrew boards for the '2500 I was building from a '2000 or I can run this one. There's a spare control head kicking around my stash of CPI goodies.
Nice to see you and the WACOM crew, Ron.
N8GAV
05-16-2015, 05:20 PM
So guys (Ron & Fred) I heard from a few of my buddies from here that radio prices in the flea market are high. Some guy wanting $300 for a TS-520, another wanting 400 for a FT-101E with a YC-601, someone had a B & K tube tester, they didn't know if it worked but was asking 350 for it. Is this what your seeing?
w0aew
05-16-2015, 05:55 PM
So guys (Ron & Fred) I heard from a few of my buddies from here that radio prices in the flea market are high. Some guy wanting $300 for a TS-520, another wanting 400 for a FT-101E with a YC-601, someone had a B & K tube tester, they didn't know if it worked but was asking 350 for it. Is this what your seeing?
Must have been the e-bay booth.l
How about $250 for a B&K Dynascan 1040 CB test center?
$900 for an FT-980?
$995 for a Ten Tec 253 autotuner?
N8GAV
05-16-2015, 06:41 PM
How about $250 for a B&K Dynascan 1040 CB test center?
$900 for an FT-980?
$995 for a Ten Tec 253 autotuner?
WOW, they must think they are on epay. I have someone looking for some tubes for me, so far they found 6 of them, he ran across a Heathkit VTVM for 15 bucks, called me and asked if I wanted it "Hell Yeah" for 15 bucks with manual I'll take it
suddenseer
05-16-2015, 08:24 PM
WOW, they must think they are on epay. I have someone looking for some tubes for me, so far they found 6 of them, he ran across a Heathkit VTVM for 15 bucks, called me and asked if I wanted it "Hell Yeah" for 15 bucks with manual I'll take itI guess that I am old enough to remember those! good deal with the manual, hell at hamvention some may try to sell you the manual for $15!!!
K7SGJ
05-16-2015, 08:34 PM
How about $250 for a B&K Dynascan 1040 CB test center?
$900 for an FT-980?
$995 for a Ten Tec 253 autotuner?
I bought a 1040 and 2040 in like new condx for $200 a few years back. I used that setup when they first came out. It really is a nice test fixture combo. I was toying with the idea of putting a DDS and associated circuitry in the 2040 for use beyond it's 11M design.
KG4CGC
05-16-2015, 09:16 PM
How about $250 for a B&K Dynascan 1040 CB test center?
$900 for an FT-980?
$995 for a Ten Tec 253 autotuner?
Obama's fault.
Obama's fault.
Thanks, Obama.
K7SGJ
05-16-2015, 11:22 PM
Asphalt
I'm going to a hamfest in Sacramento tomorrow.
It'll be interesting to see if the pricing is ebay like there too.
The last time I went to this hamfest, the pricing was way low. Got that Yaesu ft-767gx with the 6/2/440 modules for $300.
I'm hoping to find a cheap complete 440 repeater. 440 in Sac is dead because of Pave Paws restrictions.
I'm going to a hamfest in Sacramento.
The last time I went to this hamfest, the pricing was way low. Got that Yaesu ft-767gx with the 6/2/440 modules for $300.
Saw at least two of them there. $700ish and $800ish, respectively.
I have a few pics I'll post later.
Coming soon - Enhanced Ticket Prices!
I would be happy if they put up Paradise and paved the parking lot, but any improvement is welcomed.
Scored a couple good deals today - one was on a Tektronix PG509 Pulse Generator plugin and another was a CPI CP2500 remote-mountable CB. It's the mobile version of their CP2000 base rig. I can use the trunk unit's Interface boards as a model for a pair of homebrew boards for the '2500 I was building from a '2000 or I can run this one. There's a spare control head kicking around my stash of CPI goodies.
Nice to see you and the WACOM crew, Ron.Yes, very nice as always. And I think you scored a few brownie points with the WACOM gang by helping their newbie out... you were referred to the rest of the day as "The Drake Guy", and very highly as well.
Remind me to email you the original. This is resized & cropped so that we don't drive everyone's browsers nutz.
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I'm going to talk with N3TIR and then with the WASH crew. Maybe next year, we'll go in on a space, and have it funnelled through Bud's hands so that we're together with them. Which shouldn't be a problem, since the two clubs have a big membership overlap.
So guys (Ron & Fred) I heard from a few of my buddies from here that radio prices in the flea market are high. Some guy wanting $300 for a TS-520, another wanting 400 for a FT-101E with a YC-601, someone had a B & K tube tester, they didn't know if it worked but was asking 350 for it. Is this what your seeing?
I saw a lot of good stuff. Not much Drake or Hallicrafters this year, and Heathkit was down as well. A lot of good Collins, especially ex-military.
But, yes, prices tended to be on the high sides. And, frankly, after the quick downpours once Friday, twice Saturday (only about 5 - 10 minutes or so each time) some of that gear wasn't covered up in time, so I'd be VERY leary.
I was hoping for a small tube tester cheap. Saw no small ones, and no cheap ones.
Ron,
The attachment isn't showing up...
K7SGJ
05-17-2015, 07:45 PM
Ron,
The attachment isn't showing up...
Neither did the tube tester, evidently.
N8GAV
05-17-2015, 09:40 PM
Ron I have a small tube tester somewhere downstairs. It's an Lafayette and still works. I'll make you a good deal on it. Hell I have 3 tube testers so I won't miss it. Found out why the VTVM I got was $15.... Don't work, so I'll have to look at manual and see and trace out what is wrong with it.
Ron,
The attachment isn't showing up...Yeah, I see that.
For some reason, I couldn't upload today from IE, so I switched to Chrome. Upload appeared to work fine, but I only got the "attachment 13917" note afterwards. I edited the post, and the image reappeared.
Let's try again, back on IE now...
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Ron I have a small tube tester somewhere downstairs. It's an Lafayette and still works. I'll make you a good deal on it. Hell I have 3 tube testers so I won't miss it. Found out why the VTVM I got was $15.... Don't work, so I'll have to look at manual and see and trace out what is wrong with it.Sounds like a plan. We'll talk.
K7SGJ
05-17-2015, 10:27 PM
Boy, you talk about a pair to draw to..........
Would you buy a used rig from those guys??
(Oh, hey, wait, I have—from both of them...)
KG4CGC
05-17-2015, 10:45 PM
Would you buy a used rig from those guys??
(Oh, hey, wait, I have—from both of them...)
ME TOO! Hoily Foik!
Pics as promised. There's a church whose lot is made available for Hamvention parking and they've served breakfast, lunch and coffee to us for years. Its access street sees a number of RVs parked for the week. This one - from Texas - had an interesting guard on duty up front. You'll have to look closely:
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At least one car dealership has changed its tune on convention parking, albeit at the rear of the joint:
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"Contact" fans might remember the Machine -
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Did I find a prototype?
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No Excuses, Part 1:
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Dick was back this year. He looks haggard...must come from staring at all the ham-scooters rolling past. Or maybe Cuban plumbers factored in somehow, though (sadly) I didn't spot Arnie Coro. I did spot at least one of the infamous Watergate surveillance receivers - an RS-111 - being carried out of the fleamarket:
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SAM I am, and Sam makes no excuses either:
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This is a big honkin' crank-up tower. According to the Luso crew it weighs 18 tons; at least 3/4 of that being aluminum. New owner lives in KY...and given the methneck population in that area of the country, I wonder how long it'll be before the scrappers attempt a run on it:
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This one was tricky. One of the German engineers/booth staffers was watching yours truly like a hawk as I fiddled with the controls of his Uber-transceptor - but like any focused man with a mission I managed to take the shot:
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Everyone has their "score of the hamfest" tale. For Ron's fellow WACOM club member Bob it was the Drake RV-7 VFO which I found for him in the fleamarket not 100 yards from their tent; this after dragging him on a wild goose chase for the OTHER one which I saw for sale. Mine was a CP-2500, the mobile version of CPI's CP-2000 base rig. Rare as hell and fetches a premium, especially on eBay. I'm going to scratchbuild my own trunk unit from a junker -2000, using this one as an example. I already have a control head and most of the other needed parts:
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Would you buy a used rig from those guys??
(Oh, hey, wait, I have—from both of them...)And it was a blessed event, as you should know, Your Holey-ness.
This is a big honkin' crank-up tower. According to the Luso crew it weighs 18 tons; at least 3/4 of that being aluminum. New owner lives in KY...and given the methneck population in that area of the country, I wonder how long it'll be before the scrappers attempt a run on it:
13928You did hear how high that mutha' will go, won't you?
Over 100 feet, I don't recall the exact number offhand.
The reason this came up...
Mike K3AIR is getting hitched in a few months. (Man never learns, does he? Not that I should talk) He's going to be moving in to his fiance's QTH. Now, she's agreed to let him put in a tower for his new shack. The only thing is, she doesn't like the tower he has at his house -- specifically, the guy wires. She doesn't like them, for aesthetic reasons. So she asked him about getting a self-supporting and/or crank-up tower.
So he sent her a couple of pictures of the Luso, along with some text mentioning the height, and asked her if this would be OK.
He wouldn't tell me her exact response. Needless to say, positive, it wasn't.
Everyone has their "score of the hamfest" tale. For Ron's fellow WACOM club member Bob
< snip >For the record, I'm not a member of WACOM. WACOM (specifically Bud N3TIR & Norma N3YJJ) was kind enough to invite myself and other members of WASH to join them for lunch etc.
For the record, I'm not a member of WACOM. WACOM (specifically Bud N3TIR & Norma N3YJJ) was kind enough to invite myself and other members of WASH to join them for lunch etc.
I stand erected. Unlike Mike's proposed tower. The one in the photo telescopes to 148ft and is $69k without antennas.
I also have mixed feelings regarding the proposed cohabitation and ban on aerials, and based on conversations we've had you can pretty much guess my course of action regarding such.
suddenseer
05-18-2015, 09:49 AM
At least one car dealership has changed its tune on convention parking, albeit at the rear of the joint:
13921This is very tempting for my sophomoric side.
WØTKX
05-18-2015, 09:50 AM
And the "Ram" is at the bottom? :evil:
This is very tempting for my sophomoric side.
Sounds like a stanza or two from "Us and Them", methinks...
suddenseer
05-18-2015, 08:41 PM
Sounds like a stanza or two from "Us and Them", methinks...From a fellow Ice Tea drinker, "ayep"
suddenseer
05-18-2015, 08:42 PM
This one was tricky. One of the German engineers/booth staffers was watching yours truly like a hawk as I fiddled with the controls of his Uber-transceptor - but like any focused man with a mission I managed to take the shot:
13929I have shown these photos to my dad. He is all for it.
KG4CGC
05-18-2015, 11:36 PM
Thanks for the pics.
I stand erected. Unlike Mike's proposed tower. The one in the photo telescopes to 148ft and is $69k without antennas.
I also have mixed feelings regarding the proposed cohabitation and ban on aerials, and based on conversations we've had you can pretty much guess my course of action regarding such.
Oh, there's no ban on aerials. She just doesn't like the looks of guy wires.
Oh, there's no ban on aerials. She just doesn't like the looks of guy wires.
That wouldn't jibe with my antenna plans, either. I currently have two of the DX-SWL slopers in the air, oriented SE and SW. Plans are for five total at NE, NW and S. Another tower of 5 of their ham band equivalents for 160/80/40M...maybe 30M. For what they are, these things work very well.
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14.313 happiness for the WIN!
And for what it's worth...... didn't make it to Dayton..... again.... high hopes for next year though. Hoping I can talk Charles into being my co-pilot for 2016. The Mrs. insisted that I go but have too much going on around the new homestead and shack to have made it this year. Charles and I did manage to do the Upstate SC Hamfest though, where I actually ended up spending as much money as I would have in Dayton, so there ya go. :)
KG4NEL
05-24-2015, 09:01 AM
Oh, there's no ban on aerials. She just doesn't like the looks of guy wires.
Me neither, to be honest.
A 50'-60' crank up seems like a sweet spot. I don't need monoband stacks to be happy.
KG4CGC
05-24-2015, 10:08 AM
14.313 happiness for the WIN!
And for what it's worth...... didn't make it to Dayton..... again.... high hopes for next year though. Hoping I can talk Charles into being my co-pilot for 2016. The Mrs. insisted that I go but have too much going on around the new homestead and shack to have made it this year. Charles and I did manage to do the Upstate SC Hamfest though, where I actually ended up spending as much money as I would have in Dayton, so there ya go. :)
Tom's being modest. He scored a sweet deal on a Kenwood HT of a vintage of unobtanium. SWEET DEAL!
Tom's being modest. He scored a sweet deal on a Kenwood HT of a vintage of unobtanium. SWEET DEAL!
Pics or it didn't happen
KG4CGC
05-24-2015, 11:50 AM
Pics or it didn't happen
I was there and it happened.
K7SGJ
05-24-2015, 12:47 PM
14.313 happiness for the WIN!
And for what it's worth...... didn't make it to Dayton..... again.... high hopes for next year though. Hoping I can talk Charles into being my co-pilot for 2016. The Mrs. insisted that I go but have too much going on around the new homestead and shack to have made it this year. Charles and I did manage to do the Upstate SC Hamfest though, where I actually ended up spending as much money as I would have in Dayton, so there ya go. :)
If Charles was any kind of a friend, he'd charter a plane for you, and put you up at the Dayton Marriott. Just sayin.........
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