[CVRC] FS--moving sale

Jack/W6NF vhfplus at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 19:04:03 EDT 2012


> Well, it is time to allow the feline to vacate it's burlap enclosure....
>
> My XYL (K7MKL) and I are moving in just a bit over three weeks....to 
> Ecuador. As a result, what remains of several decades of Ham
> Radio-related accumulation must be sold. The following list is 
> everything (I hope) with what I believe are some great prices:
>
> 1) KLM/TET two section, 11-foot tall rooftop tower. Designed for mount 
> at the peak of a roof. Has plate for mounting Ham-M style rotor. This 
> is a great roof-top tower and has worked very well with a small 
> tribander and Ham IV rotor at K7XC's place! $50.00.
>
> 2) HAM IV rotor with control box and about 125-feet of control cable. 
> The only issue is that the bat-handle toggle switch has the
> handle broken off. I left it on and turned it off at an outlet strip 
> with the rest of my gear so it was never a problem. $175.00.
>
> 3) 432 home-brew 21-element long yagi. Looks like stainless-steel 
> elements and gamma match driven element. $20.00.
>
> 4) 6 and 2-meter rover antenna system. Two KB6KQ horizontal loops on 
> 1-3/4-inch cammo support tube and mounted on a 2-inch
> trailer hitch...just plug it into your 2-inch receiver and guy it to 
> pick-up bedtie-down points. Includes Dacron guy lines. Built, and
> used for many years, by K7XC. C'mon VHF contest ops...this is an 
> *excellent* deal with the loops alone worth more than the asking
> price of $75.00.
>
5 Sold
>
> 6) Nine 4-foot long, 1-3/4-inch diameter, aluminum cammo support tubes 
> (white). $3.00 each.
>
> 7) Flo-Temp silver-bearing, lead-free, solder. Slightly more than one 
> pound on two rolls, one 16oz one 3oz and both nearly full..
> $15.00.
>
> 8) 170+ feet of Cable Xperts 1318FX coax with PL-259s on each end. 
> About one year old $60.00
>
> 9) 80+ feet if unknown manufacturer RG-8-style coax with PL-259s on 
> each end. Markings read "M32M32-8D-FB-30M". I used
> this cable to feed my 6-meter long yagi and it worked fine. $25.00
>
10 and 11 Sold
> 12) Chassis punches: 1-5/32-inch Greenlee, $15.00; 3/4-inch Greenlee, 
> $10.00; 5/8-inch Greenlee, $8.00
>
> 13) Wavetek DM-78A poicket DVM, $10.00
>
>
14 Sold
>
> 15) 2009 ARRL Handbook, with CD, good condition, $10.00
>
> 16) 432MHz HB 5-element rover antenna. Driven element feeed must be 
> added and rear-mount bracket fabricated. $5.00
>
> 17) 222MHz HB 5-element rover antenna. Driven element feeed must be 
> added and rear-mount bracket fabricated. $5.00
>
> 18) 2-meter mag mount 5/8-wave antenna. $10.00
>
> 19) 10-meter driven element. I think this is an old M-Squared item. 
> Requires a phasing line with "F" connectors which I do not
> have. $5.00
>
> 20) 2-meter driven element, K1FO design, partially assembled, $10.00
>
> 21) Measurements/Motorola T-1034B signal generator, with padded 
> carrying case. 25-470MHz and 890-960MHz (on harmonics).
> Works, $20.00
>
> 22) Weller WTCPN soldering station. Old and ugly but it works. $10.00
>
> 23) Braided ground cable. Looks like single-ought...maybe double. Thre 
> pieces with total of at least 40-feet. $15.00
>
> 24) Telex 610-40 600-ohm headset. $5.00
>
> 25) Texas Instruments TI-83 graphing calcualtor with manual. $20.00
>
> 26) Two 100-ohm cartridge-style non-inductive resistors. At least 
> 125-watts each. Great for a serious dummy load that will
> handle 200-250 watts continuous. $10.00
>
> 27) SMA coax relays. One SPDT and one SP4T. Both 28 volts coils. $5.00 
> for both.
>
> 28) Stainless steel mobile antenna springs. Three standard-duty, 
> 4-inches long by 1-1/2-inch diameter. One heavy-duty, 4-1/2-
> inches long by 2-inch diameter. $5.00 each.
>
> 29) Weekend Digi-VFO, as described on QST in 1995, based on a Harris 
> synth chip. Assembled with preliminary testing done more
> than 10 years ago. Built in an aluminum enclosure with 25-pin parallel 
> port cable. Comes with the original QST article plus the
> follow-up "Weekend DigiBrain" article. $10.00
>
> 30) Stardrive MTI-2800A satellite dish positioner with controller and 
> manual. This has been used as the elevation drive for a four-
> yagi 2-meter EME array. $10.00
>
> 31) Two brand new packages of 3M/Scotchflex 50-conductor ribbon cable. 
> Twenty foot total length in two 10-foot pieces. $5.00
> for both.
>
> 32) Fifty-ohm in-line attenuatpr pads, four BNC and one "N". The "N" 
> is 20db and spec'ed to 3GHz. The BNC's are two 3db, one
> 13db and one 20db, all spec'ed to 1GHz, although insertion loss is 
> 0.3db higher at 1GHz. This lot also includes seven SMA 50-ohm
> loads, probably 1/4-watt. $20.00 for all.
>
> 33) Twelve Schrack SPDT PC mount RF relays with 12VDC coils. They are 
> rated at 110VAC/12A or 220VAC or30VDC/7A. I used
> these relays in my two element 40-meter directional array (described 
> above) and *know* that they are good for at least 100 watts of
> RF. $2.00 each.
>
> 34) KLM 2-meter, 50-ohm, power divider with "N: connectors, plus two 
> 25-foot low loss cables for feeding a pair of 2-meter yagis.
> The cables have "N" connectors on one end and SO-239's on the other, 
> which is right for feeding Cushcraft 13B2's, for example.
> The "N" female connector onthe feed end of the divider has one of the 
> three center conductor spring fingers broken off but have
> carefully connected everyting and checked the system with an antenna 
> analyzer and it works fine. $15.00 for the divider and
> cables.
>
> 35) QST Magazine for July 1964...the 50th Anniversary issue in good 
> condition. Just in time for the 100th Anniversary. $3.00
>
> 36) QST Magazine for 1957. This is the whole year, in good condition, 
> in the ARRL binder. I got it because it was the year I was
> licensed as a Novicebut we cannot take it with us. $10.00
>
> 37) Four issues of CQ Magazine: July 1946, December 1957 (detailing 
> the first WPX Award by W6KG), September 1960 (Describing
> the first 1296 EME QSO between W1BU and W6HB) and December 1964. $5.00 
> for all.
>
> 38) 2.4GHz MMDS/IFTS parabolic section dish w/mounting hardware, coax 
> and "N" male connector. $10.00
>
> 39) 18x18x8-inch steel enclosure. Used to house my 6-way coax 
> switching system. $10.00
>
> 40) Mosley Clasic 33 driven element aluminum support bar. insulators 
> are damaged but the rectangular support bar is in good
> condition. $10.00
>
> 41) 900MHz Johnson solid state amplifier with power supply in nice 
> condition. Checked at 96 watts output but I do not know the
> requireed drive level...probably 1-watt, or so. $25.00
>
> 42) Two KLM element supports for the KT34-series antennas. One is 
> original KLM and the other is the more rugger DX Engineering
> version. I used one of these for the driven element support for my 
> 6-meter long yagi and it worked well. $10.00 for both.
>
> 43) Box of stainles-steel hose clamps including sizes from 1-inch to 
> more than 8-inches. Probably 50 clamps total. $20.00 for all.
>
> 44) Eight foot ground rods...I think they are all 3/8-inch diameter, 
> not the little Radio Shack stuff. One is laying by the garage and
> at least four more are still in the ground...the catch being you have 
> to pull the one's in the ground. $5.00 for all.
>
> 45) 7/8' Heliax, about 25 feet with N-Male on one end, $5.00
>
> 46) 7/8' Heliax, about 50 feet with SO-239 on one end, $15.00
>
> 47) 3/4-inch 75-ohm CATV hardline, at least 175 feet, no connectors. 
> Great for receive antenna applications where lack of
> connectors is not a problem, $20.00
>
> 48) Galvanized steel mast, 2' OD, 1/8' wall, 11' 10" long. Used to 
> support the 40-meter yagi at K7AO here in Silver Springs. $25.00
>
> 49) Steel mast, 2' OD, 1/8' wall, 11' long. The rotor end has a sleeve 
> that makes the wall thickness ¼' but I cannot tell how deep
> that sleeve goes. $15.00
>
> 50) I also have a large, heavy, wood desk that was our operating 
> position until I built a desk to accommodate two operating
> positions. Three drawers to the right, slide out keyboard drawer in 
> the center and one slide out printer shelf to the left. The desk is
> 6' 3" wide, 24-1/2" deep, 32" high and in reasonably good condition. 
> $10.00. I also have an old military-style steel desk which
> would make a nice work desk, in good condition, $5.00.
>
> 51) Seven conductor control cable/rotor, at least 125-feet. I used 
> this to control my Top-Ten Devices 6-way RF switch, $20.00
>
> 52) Eight conductor rotor cable, at least 135-feet. There are plcaes 
> where the jacket has been damaged but the whole run of cable
> is useable. $20.00
>
> 53) Miscellaneous runs of high-voltage wire pulled from broadcast 
> radio and TV rigs. Probably 50 or 60 feet but in a dozen, or
> more, pieces. Great for amplifier plate circuits. I'm sure it's rated 
> for 10kv plus. $10.00 for all.
>
> I would prefer pick up of all items in Silver Springs but will ship 
> the smaller items at buyers expense. Call 775-997-8129 for more
> information.

Thanks,

Jack, W6NF



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