{"id":2132,"date":"2012-01-28T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2012-01-28T20:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T02:43:30","slug":"jackson-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We just returned from the hamfest in Jackson, Mississippi this evening.<\/p>\n

We had gone down yesterday and set up a table to sell some of this stuff, particularly some of those VHF bandpass cavity filters<\/a> that I had acquired last spring<\/a>.\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n

Yes, we did sell the cavity filters we had along.\u00a0 We also sold a 2 KV power supply.<\/p>\n

We picked up a few things.\u00a0 My acquisition is a receiver, it looks to be based on some commercial design but gutted out for a homebrew attempt.\u00a0 There are 13 tubes.\u00a0 It has a rotating slide-rule frequency display, kind of like a Racal RA-17 but has far fewer controls.<\/p>\n

I was doing\u00a0 some internet searching to see if I could find what commercial design they started with.\u00a0 The knobs are all grey and have white printing on the face of the knob itself.\u00a0 Most are arrows but one says, “CW-OSC\u00a0 Adjust” along with an arrow.\u00a0 I have not seen knobs like that.\u00a0 Overall, the thing looks pretty dirty but intact.\u00a0 Have not yet found anything that looks similar.<\/p>\n

(! I think I found the knobs.\u00a0 They look exactly link knobs on the BC-342<\/a>, and similar radios.)<\/p>\n

I saw some other stuff of interest.\u00a0 One guy had a SX-42 in poor shape for only $20.\u00a0 Another guy had an estate selection of nice Collins, Heathkit and Hammarlund gear (most of which he did not sell).\u00a0 The same table from which I got my homebrew item had a very rusty Heathkit DX-100.\u00a0 I joked with the guy that whoever had been using it as a boatanchor must have decided to pull it back up.\u00a0 Quite a few TS-820\/530\/830 type rigs for sale, a few newer outfits. Some parts.\u00a0 A couple of guys had CW keys, but all wanted more than I was willing to pay.<\/p>\n

Had some nice conversations including one with Ward Silver, n0ax, a regular columnist for QST magazine.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But that wasn’t it.\u00a0 I soon figured it out.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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