[Today’s run: nothing]
We just returned from the hamfest in Jackson, Mississippi this evening.
We had gone down yesterday and set up a table to sell some of this stuff, particularly some of those VHF bandpass cavity filters that I had acquired last spring. The hamfest swap was open from 5 pm-8 pm yesterday and again today from 8 am to 4 pm (we stayed until a bit after 3 pm).
Yes, we did sell the cavity filters we had along. We also sold a 2 KV power supply.
We picked up a few things. My acquisition is a receiver, it looks to be based on some commercial design but gutted out for a homebrew attempt. There are 13 tubes. It has a rotating slide-rule frequency display, kind of like a Racal RA-17 but has far fewer controls.
I was doing some internet searching to see if I could find what commercial design they started with. The knobs are all grey and have white printing on the face of the knob itself. Most are arrows but one says, “CW-OSC Adjust” along with an arrow. I have not seen knobs like that. Overall, the thing looks pretty dirty but intact. Have not yet found anything that looks similar.
(! I think I found the knobs. They look exactly link knobs on the BC-342, and similar radios.)
I saw some other stuff of interest. One guy had a SX-42 in poor shape for only $20. Another guy had an estate selection of nice Collins, Heathkit and Hammarlund gear (most of which he did not sell). The same table from which I got my homebrew item had a very rusty Heathkit DX-100. I joked with the guy that whoever had been using it as a boatanchor must have decided to pull it back up. Quite a few TS-820/530/830 type rigs for sale, a few newer outfits. Some parts. A couple of guys had CW keys, but all wanted more than I was willing to pay.
Had some nice conversations including one with Ward Silver, n0ax, a regular columnist for QST magazine. I knew his name rang a bell, and he had a tag with his zero-land callsign… I thought at first that he was someone from far-off Colorado just happening to be in Mississippi. But that wasn’t it. I soon figured it out. He was in town to help man the ARRL booth and give a presentation, which, I am sorry to say, I was unable to attend.