[Milsurplus] NEAR-Fest Musings

[Jim Madden]

I also got there early friday! yep I feel sorry for all the folk that stayed home because it was suposed to pour but by the A.M the weather report had changed to just cloudy.Good for me Hi.

          I was walking along and noticed a Lone'ly AN/GRR-5 sitting under someones tailgate So's i ask howmuch for the Old military rig 150 his answer I got him down to 105! no cables battery woes unit was compleate power unit pp-308 r-174 and cabinet so i snapped that up always wanted one.

         Then a little while later I see this shock mount sticking out of this box at another vender and low and behold it says mt-768/urr on it I carefuly inquire how much for the box with the bunch of junk in it she says 20.00 um ok I guess.Hi.also picked up a prc-6 looks mighty new inside so all in all i think I made out pretty well? Now how to convince my wife of that is another story Hi Hi.7'Jim KB1PFL

 


 
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 08:39:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> Subject: [Milsurplus] NEAR-Fest Musings
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> On Friday and Saturday the semi-annual NEAR-Fest was held at the Deerfield
> Fairgrounds in NH. This event was fka Hoss Traders or just Deerfield.
> 
> To the wuzzies who were deterred by the cloudy skies and threat of rain...
> you blew it. Friday, between 8 and 5 it lightly spotted a couple of
> times. You lost. LoL. I was not able to attend Saturday.
> 
> Anyway, there were a number of interesting things, including:
> 
> TCS-12 Transmitter w/o case but with an auxiliar chassis w/ two
> dynamotors. The transmitter look unhacked, but was very dusty. To my eye,
> the PS looked like it was not home brew, but I am no expert on the set.
> Asking price was $150. It sold, but I don't know the sale price.
> 
> The same guy was also selling a lot of over 15 assorted ARC-5 receivers
> and transmitters, for $50 for the lot. Those didn't last long.
> 
> In the real of more modern stuff, there were some TA-312 phones, and a
> GRA-39 remote control unit for radios.
> 
> The real prize was a GRC-193A w/. the two level mounting rack, almost all
> cables, and a full set of HC manuals. Stupidly, I did not buy it, but it
> would have been logistically hard to deal with.
> 
> Oddly, there were fewer tube vendors and little modern high end test gear.
> I guess eBay is siphoning that stuff off.
> 
> FWIW,
> -John


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