[Today’s run: nothing. Yesterday 20×200]
At the hamfest last weekend I was mostly in sell mode. But I did wander around a bit and ponder the prices of things that I would have liked to have owned but didn’t want to peel off $$ for.
One table was a couple of guys from the Vicksburg area and they had a number of interesting items. I passed on the rusty Heathkit DX-100. But I did bring home a partially completed receiver.
I took some pictures and posted questions on the eham.net boatanchors list. Some experts quickly filled me in on what I had.
It appears that someone attempted to make a receiver from junkbox parts using the general scheme of the ARC-5 WWII military receivers. But it doesn’t work. I think the LO is dead.
So now I have another project. I can either strip it out for parts or try to fix it up, or almost anything in between. Having a power supply, tube sockets and IF cans already in place makes it kind of attractive for a project attempt of my own. We shall see.
But, for $5 I confirmed that I’m not the only person in the world who starts projects and does not finish them. That is some comfort in itself, probably worth the money.