[Milsurplus] Dayton

[Ray Fantini]

Tomorrow will be the first day of the 2007 Dayton hamvention, I arrived in Dayton yesterday and spent today visiting Midwest Electronic Surplus and Fair Radio. If you ever attend the Hamvention I would strongly encourage visiting both locations. Midwest is located in down town Fairborn right across the street from one of the base. They have a large selection of just about any parts from vintage to modern at very reasonable prices; I bought shock mounts, some bridge rectifiers and capacitors, not many large test equipment items or military radios but tons of parts. Then went up I-75 to Fair Radio and once again was amazed by the amount of items their. Not just all the stuff in the show room that’s in their catalog but tons of other items back in the back warehouse. They have about twenty ARR-41 chassis and I did try to build a complete unit but did not find an IF deck. They tell me that they had someone build one this week from parts back their and sold it for $225.00 The back room contains enormous amounts of ARC-5, ART-13, BC-346 and R-390 part radios, looks like much of their business these days is selling parts for people restoring stuff, they still have lots of other stuff that’s not as collectable in abundance like ARC family of radios apart from the ARC-5 stuff and if you go their plan on spending at least half a day. Will try to post something tomorrow about the hamfest and am looking forward to the “cold war” and 3885 net on Saturday.
Ray Fantini KA3EKH