[Milsurplus] PSARA Swapmeet Aug. 20 2017
Hubert Miller
Kargo_cult at msn.com
Mon Aug 21 01:50:38 EDT 2017
I attended the PSARA ( Puget Sound Antique Radio Association ) today. in North Seattle. A fun event; temperatures in the
mid 70s, very decent.
I really don't know what sold. There were a lot of Zenith TransOceanics of various vintages, lots of cathedral and wooden table
radios, but I didn't see a lot of selling of these. About a third of the swap area was reserved for sellers from the NW section of
The Society of Audio Engineers. Truthfully, nothing I observed there interested me, so I didn't visit that aisle of the swapmeet
at all.
There was one fellow with a bunch of heavy stuff on the ground - all free. I immediately saw a section of a TBW and claimed it.
I was thinking it was the LF section and that I would help someone out, as this section has often been discarded. Later when I
looked at it tho, I noticed no RF components, and realized it was the PS section. So this may have been mistake to lug this away.
I also saw there an RBA; don't know who took it. I was told there was a BC-654 WITH THE KEY; I don't know who got that. There
was a BC-604 trans. and also some big I mean really heavy TTY demodulator that a woman ( yes a woman ) friend took, despite
me trying to clue her not to hoard big heavy useless junk, if you want to hoard.
There were 3 BC-348 around $50; none sold. I sold a BC-654 for $100 to someone I know; set missing key ( of course ) and external
paint flaking but internal face, as most common, very good. I sold an untested I-177 for $60. You do what you have to do. I wanted
cash flow in and weight flow out. It's a start. I sold an HRO-5TA1, had two added toggles and changed output transformer, 4 non
bandspread coils for $50. Move it out and be thankful you have a buyer.
I saw a perfect TMC GPR-90 for $600. In the old days, I might have been tempted, but I'm kind of out of "oohing and aaahing"
over big-deal radio equipment. I saw not a great deal of ham or shortwave communication equipment. An FT-101 for $100;
a Drake TR-3 for unknown price; FRG-7, DX-120 ( sold ) DX-150. Not much else I can think of.
Saw an FB-7 with one coil for $75 if I remember right. An 'All Star Junior' kit receiver with one coil set for $200. A 'Pilot Super
Wasp' for $250; don't think it included coils other than that in it. I'm sure the latter two receivers did not sell.
I bought some great old telegraphy books, some 100 years old+, at ridiculously low prices. There were other great bargains to be
had in parts and "misc" boxes. I bought a box of hundreds of CB crystals and a box of mil crystals with some 40 meter ones in it
for $20. FET voltmeters and various small test sets for just a few bucks. Fun pawing through mixed boxes of everything and finding
something like a "10 Meter " ( CB ) linear or a new boxed coax relay for a buck or two. I also got a box of RU-GF stuff; 5 new boxed rec
coils, 4 trans coils, and couple of control box; a couple HS-30s too. And oh yes, it included a 2-4 MHz RAS plugin coil, so if you have an
RAS, you can probably get this pretty inexpensively.
Oh yeah, and this woman friend bought some kind of paper chart recorder made by Frederick Co. for the U.S. Navy, 1942. There is no
type or model identifier that I saw. It has an ink well, a wind up key, and apparently two places where the key winds the thing up. A
pen point scribes a line on this paper tape about 3 inches wide. I have a photo I might endeavor to send later on. So what is this thing?
I guess some recorder for Morse code reception.
Fun!
-Hue
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