[Boatanchors] Ham Radio Estate Sale Tomorrow- Dallas

[Brian Harris]

Well, the estate sale is over.  The 75A-2 sold for $250 (not to me).  The owner 
today decided to keep the HQ-110 and speaker for himself and will apparently try 
to sell via in another venue the 4-5 crappy old scopes and maybe 10 other pieces 
of not too desirable test equipment that remained this afternoon.  He didn't 
like my offer of $5 a piece for each of the left over aforementioned test 
equipment.  I did purchase the three General Radio 1650-A's yesterday and the 
remaining DX-35 and HW-16 along with some other good test equipment and ALL the 
loose parts (meters, transformers, numerous Variacs, R/C's, pots and 
accessories) today in a lot purchase.  Oh yes, the Cushcraft vertical came with 
me too.  The surprise of the day was an MFJ Pocket Morse Code Tutor that I found 
in the bottom of a box after I got home.  It even works.  Dah-dit-dah-dit.

By the way, the owner of the stuff is the grandson of the ham that lived 
there.,  The grandson also inherited the house, which is located in University 
Park, a sort of snooty section of Dallas near SMU.  The grandson turned down an 
$800K offer for the house which will surely be bulldozed for new construction 
after it sells for $1M+.  When my grandfather died all I got was a few American 
Flyer trains.  What's wrong in this picture?

Brian Harris, WA5UEK
phone 214-763-5977
email cosmophone at yahoo.com
website www.myhamshack.com/wa5uek


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