[Milsurplus] NEAR-Fest Musings

[W2HX]

I was there too. Friday was fine, Saturday was beautiful. Picked up the
following:

URC-35a (RT-618A and AM-3007)

PRC-25 with backpack, tape measure antenna, long antenna, vehicle mount
(AM-2060/GRC & ??-1029/GRC), MIC, vehicle antenna, plus the antenna base and
antenna vehicle mount.  Also got 3 spare battery packs - all with D cells in
them.

Also picked up a PRT-4A and one PRR-9 (helmet receiver) with working
battery. Where can these batteries be found? Anyone figure out how to
re-core them with lithiums or something?

All items work FB and are all on 51.0. 

Did some real horse trading and hosstraders.  Traded the PRC-25 and PRT4/9
setup for a radio I had for sale.

Oh, and got a Collins 30L1 that looks superb but has some problem (I was
told of this problem before I bought it - high current draw on variac). I'll
have to sort that out.

About the PRC-25 set up I got. I do seem to have the incorrect flexible part
between the PRC-25 and the long antenna. It doesn't mate with either the
radio or the long antenna. Anyone got a correct part?

I am told that the vehicle antenna is a vertical dipole, but I cant figure
out how they do it. I think my base might not be correct for the actual
antenna part.

The base says the following (very hard to read, much has been worn out)
4242-MK1
LB VHF Broadband ??????
Shakespear Company
FSCM 23657 ???

The lower antenna element has something that looks like a female RCA
connector inside. I can imagine this IS a vertical dipole, but the base does
not have such a pin to interface with this.

The antenna numbers are almost impossible to read:
????? 30/V???
R.R. Miller Ind. Inc.
[and them some very long numbers]

Do I have a dipole vertical element, but a non-dipole antenna base?


Eugene W2HX


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Madden
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:08 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] NEAR-Fest Musings


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
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
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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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