[Milsurplus] Aberdeen Rally

[John Kidd]

Hi all,

I was also there. Shopped Thursday and picked up some nice goodies.
Stayed away Friday, too wet for me. Came back Saturday. Got some PRR-9
helmet radio batteries, PRT-4 batteries. Shure black plastic T-17 & M-29
microphones. reasonably priced and good condition de-milled RT-524.
There were NOS R-442 covers ($15) and NIB mounts for same. ($20)
Bought some BC-620/659 cables from Dave. PRT-4 working with battery
from OB Rich.

A lot of vendors packed up early and there were people looking for items
that were available earlier but the sellers had gone.

Aircraft stuff was in short supply but there were some instruments and a
ARC-53 mount, unidentified cro display. The most fascinating item for me
was a Vultee rudder pedal assembly.

Saw Breck setting up the Chinese set on the hood, but the drizzle increased
so I moved on without having a chat.

Mike's PRC-10's were nice, but his shipment came without cases. It seemed that
10 years ago the guy he bought them from had some workers that stole all the
cases and sold them for scrap. Mike has battery boxes and accessories for them.

Take care,

John Kidd


At 06.50 12-05-2008, B. Smith wrote:
>One heck of a rally, with a lot of East Coast Military Radio Collectors
>present and just to mention a few, Tom Bryan, Dave Kormanicki, Chuck Agosti,
>Jeff Ciccone, Pat Lombardi, Ole Buzzard Rich and many others. Fumeo JA3 FTU
>attended and will be at Dayton next week. Fumeo and I spent quite a bit of
>time discussing various ways to power up the older military sets. Jeff
>Ciccone's vehicle a USAF "Peace Maker" armored car won first place in the
>military Vehicle Judging of the armor wheel (no treads) class. Jeff was up
>against some stiff competition- his vehicle has a nice HF installation and
>featured a 12 volt to 24 volt "UP" converter yes that is correct-- converts
>12 volts up to 24.
>
>Some rain but we pulled out the ponchos and did not let it slow us down.
>Mike Baranosky had NOS PRC-10's, the best PRC-10 sets I have ever seen, they
>had depot tags of 1972. He also had lots of GRC-106 parts sets that looked
>complete except for the meters, also boxes of connectors, cables, radios--
>Mike has a lot of stuff and his prices are always very reasonable.