[Milsurplus] Timonium hamfest

[r390a at verizon.net]

Todd and the group,

The guy wheeling away the AR-88 was me!  Actually, it was sold on Ebay, and I was delivering it to a friend of the buyer.  It was definitely one of the nicest AR-88s I have seen.

Having been a hamfest junkie for the past 20 years, I have to say that this instance of the Timonium fest was the best in recent years, in my opinion.  Still a far cry from the pre-Ebay heydays, but still not bad.  In addition to the several R-390s mentioned, I also saw lots of Hallicrafters and Hammarlund gear, and also, a reasonably priced HRO-60 for $330 - Don't know how many coils it came with.

Inside the furthest building, a buy from New York was selling pristine NOS tubes (mostly minature) for $1.00 each - picked up a number that I needed.

The other item I took home from the fest - an interesting LaVoie WWV comparator.  It was grungy, but looks like it will restore well.  My intention is to restore it, play with it for awhile, then I will probably pass it on to someone else.

From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/03/31 Mon PM 02:31:07 CDT
To: Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu>
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Timonium hamfest

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
> Anyone who knows me usually knows that I like to write up field reports
>  on ham fest and other events, so this brings me to the first event of
>  the season for me being the two day event at Timonium Maryland.

My first time there, saw plenty of good stuff but why do they let so
many JUNK dealers in? I'm talking about clothing, jewelery, computer
crap.....what a mess. The big lower building was 85% unrelated junk,
spent a lot of time just trying to find electronics beyond old broken
Atari games. What a waste of time.

Did see someone outside wheeling away a nice RCA AR-88 on a hand cart,
and witnessed a friend snag a pre-war SP-100LX. Saw that nifty ART-13
box that Breck got, also saw some headsets including one with the big
ear cups I've been wanting, but forgot to go back over.

Picked up a small box full of ceramic, some of those cheap chinese
dental picks for restoration work, and a manual for the AR-88 (wonder
if the guy who bought the receiver needed it?). Swooped in for a look
at the Command set racks hoping they were Navy, but no joy.

Spent the remainder of the day at KB3AHE & wife's AM party, capping it
off with a visit to W3JN for my first look at a TMC GPT-750 (and a lot
of other nice gear). What a transmitter.

Sure was windy!

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
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