[Milsurplus] PSARA Swapmeet Aug. 20 2017

[B. Smith]

   The elusive Speed-X key for the BC-474 is hard to find. A substitute 
can be fabricated from a standard Speed-X key found at ham fests.  Nye 
no long manufacturers the key with a chrome finish.
For details on the key see:

http://k4che.com/BC474key/BC474key.htm

k4che

On 8/21/2017 1:50 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> 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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