[Milsurplus] Dayton day one

[Ray Fantini]

Dayton has all types of weather, almost all of it involving rain. Today was the exception. Clear sky with scattered clouds in the afternoon with it between sixty to sixty five degrees. That being said let me say that the turn out today was good, not as crowded as some times in the past but a good turnout none the less. Items and prices, R-390 were selling for around $400 to $700 each, with one person purchasing two 390 for $500 I saw two PRC-47, one with power cable and speaker, they were selling for $100 and $150 ART-13 were selling for $200 to $300 each with many parts units for less. Also saw BC-348 for $75 to $80 in fair condition with a BC-342 for $100 and a BC-312 with RA-20 for $70, LM meters were high being anywhere from $50 to $80 for one in wooden case with canvas. PRC-25/77 were everywhere for $200 to $350 but not selling, speaking of not selling VRC-12 mounting trays were $20 and saw one in trash pile. Their was the usual Watkins Johnson, Racal and ITT Mackey stuff for big money, dose anyone really buy that stuff for two and three grand? And their was an R-1051H and G receivers for $500 each. Also a couple RT-618 transceivers without amplifiers for $350 was surprised to see lots of TCS stuff some with and some without mounts for $30 to $50 each. A GRR-5 very clean with the accessory bag with all the cables, antenna and book for $225, same person had a ABS receiver and transmitter for $40 for both and WS-19 with all accessory’s very clean for $500 and sold two WS-19 with connectors for $150 each. Saw three RF-301 transceivers, one very clean with remote and all cables for $200 Many, many ARC-5 sets and carcasses with part radios being $5 to $25 and clean radios being around $100 and saw a clean MD-7 sell for $150 What I thought may have been the buy of the day was a AXT-2 television camera and transmitter sell for $200, I saw them early that day and did not ask the price assuming they would be stupid expensive. Myself I did buy a ARC-38A for $40 for spare parts for my 618S1 and a 180L antenna tuner to go with it for $50, also picked up old APN-4 for Mr. Smith, it will look good in his basement and only cost $3 This is not meant to describe all that was their but just what I saw, did see three or four places where people have bought up almost all the common military stuff and had in big piles for transport, saw lots of BC stuff, some sunair GSB-900 sets and couple SP-600 going that way and also see that there are several people who specialize in buying up everything and then putting it back out for sale at big markup. There are two types of people dealing with this stuff these days, the first and smaller group who want to see the radios to go to good homes and be used and the second group who appear to be more interested in how much that can make by turning this stuff. The ratio of the second group appears to be becoming larger but fortunately Dayton is still too large for them to get everything. Tomorrow will be the 3885 and 51.0 nets and the opportunity for people to show off their radios. If you look at my web page: www.ka3ekh.net  you can see the photos of last years show. Will be taking more for this year.
Ray Fantini KA3EKH