[Milsurplus] Frostfest

[Ray Fantini]

With Ham Fest like Timonium going downhill fast, wonder if I am going to go at all this year and Gaithersburg a think of the past Frost Fest becomes more and more the place to go. The three or four years I have been going it's been improving. This is the first year I have sold there and that went well, and who wouldn't like a Ham fest with a Gun show right next door?
Think next year will have two tables of junk to sell! Although did not manage to sell my converted APR-4 with heads, marked the whole mess down to $25 at the end of the day but still had to load it back up.
Never got back around and did another offer on the AN/URR-74, $375.00 was still a little too much for a receiver that had obvious corrosion and no power cable or manual. If I had bought it would only be to resell at Dayton and would have to clean it up, repair any issues and then don't think you can get any more than $500.00 for the cleanest working WJ-8718 these days anyway.

Ray F


From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:ka1kaq at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 11:52 AM
To: Nick England
Cc: Ray Fantini; Military Surplus Mail List
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Frostfest

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com<mailto:navy.radio at gmail.com>> wrote:
See you there! Look for the "Navy Radio" sign.

Enjoyed seeing you there Nick, though I didn't get much time to chat with either you or JP.
Also got to meet Ray for the first time. Wonder if you ever went back and made another offer on the WJ receiver Ray? There's always time for one more project.
Managed to sell a bunch of stuff including some RU coils and a beastly RBO-2 that needed some TLC. No bites on the unhacked BC-348R with original dynamotor, shockmount, and power connector, even though it was priced well below the average ebay price. Guess it will end up there.
But the biggest highlight for me was finally getting to meet Mike Hanz. Having exchanged many an email message with him over the last decade and receiving numerous goodies via the mail, it was so nice to finally put a face with the name and get to shake his hand. A true gentleman, Mike has been a HUGE help to me and I know to others on the list as well, not to mention the incredible aafradio.org<http://aafradio.org> site he maintains with numerous manuals and loads of technical and historic information. Like Nick's site at navy-radio.com<http://navy-radio.com>, it represents many hours put forth to present and preserve this info, making it available to anyone online who wants to take the time to visit.
As much as I enjoyed selling more 'stuff' and getting it out of my way, the people really do make the event.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4