[Boatanchors] Shelby/Dallas hamfest report

[Nick England]

The 51st Shelby hamfest had a new location this year - in nearby Dallas NC 
at a park also used for the county fair - acres of grassy areas for flea 
market and tail gate space - I'm guessing there were maybe 600 spaces 
occupied. Plus lots of big tents with dealers and plenty of hookups for RVs. 
There were also buildings with dealers selling new stuff but of course I 
never bothered to go there. I think that new venue is going to work just 
fine from a flea market/tailgate perspective - I understand there were 
remote parking hassles for attendees, but they'll probably have that working 
better next year.

There were a dozen of us BA types headquartered at the yellow "BOATANCHORS!" 
banner and had plenty of buyers and visitors - famed list member Dr. Barry 
Ornitz came by, without beard, but with new wife - I guess sometimes you 
gotta make tradeoffs.

Some stuff I recall seeing- other folks please add more info
Johnson
    6 or so Invader 200's and 2 Invader 2000's
    several Valiants
    SSB adaptor
    several Rangers
    2 Thunderbolts
Homebrew
    several good piles of parts from estates
    lots of iron, caps, coils for big xmtrs/amps
    big HB with pair of 833's
Hallicrafters
    several SX-101
    several SX-62
    several HT-32
    5-6 R-46 speakers
    several SX-28
    several SX-117
National
    several NC-300
    5-6 spkrs for NC-300/303
    1 converter cabinet
    several HRO-60
    several NC-183D
Military
    Marty AA4RM had a big pile of interesting stuff
    ARB, APQ-2
    6 or 7 R-390A's (2 followed me home - what have I done!)
    CV-57 RTTY converter
    test equipment galore
Heath
    lots of SB & HW series
    several Mohawk/Apache combos
    several DX-100
Collins
    dozens of S-line units
    3-4 75A-3, 75A-4
    4-5 32V xmtrs
    two 30L-1
Hammarlund
    several SP-600
    7-8 HQ-170, 180, etc.
Misc
    Meissner 150-C (looked about 8' long!)
    2 RME spkrs
    some model RME that K4TPF bought?
    Squires-Sanders SS-1R
    Mars RC-288A SSB converter (more about that in a future posting)
    TMC GPR-90RXD
    test equipment galore

Weather was good, lots of interesting conversations, lots of gear to look 
at - all in all a very nice event.
See you there next year!
cheers,
Nick KD4CPL