[Milsurplus] Dayton Day Two

[Ray Fantini]

Saturday arrived on site around a quarter of seven. No rain this morning but there was storms last night. The road and walkways at the event were muddy but passable.  Set up my table and attempted to pedal my wares. Unlike yesterday I did not sell any items today. Think foot traffic was down to about two thirds of what it was yesterday. Just appears that no one was interested in what I had to sell. Did not see any new sellers from yesterday and saw where several have left not to return. Know someone who decided to depart Friday night and may feel that he was right in his statement that there was no need to stay for Saturday.

I disagree in as much that the opportunity to participate in the Saturday nets on 3886 and 51.0 are highlights of the event for me.

In terms of equipment did see a couple more things as in some singars radio equipment for high prices like $1,700 and above and a vintage aviation motor generator that I bought for a small amount of money just because it was so big and heavy that I wanted it just to play around with,

The 3885 AM Net had over thirty participants with the net control station being Joes restored command set rack. Several BC-611 set, a po-go stick and a bunch of newer sets were put on the air for the event, including a home built copy of the bC-611

The 51.0 Cold War Net had more participants with radios from PRC-6, PRC-25,77 and much newer sets including German , Chez and my Russian R324 transceiver, very good turnout for all the nets with maybe one or two more than last year.

As far as the new venue goes, yes there were some problems with general admission parking and access to the site but with any new event this can be expected. And yes there was a lot of mud. No questions about that but think everyone knows that on a grass surface event you're going to have issues. There was an additional short storm this afternoon and the added rain did make a bit of a mess but not as bad as I would have suspected. I did see that several cars did get stuck in the roadways when everyone was departing but the mud could have been worse.

Of the several people I talked with most or all but one though the event was a success and had a good feeling about the future of the event.

Will write up some final thoughts later and post them but that's all for now.



Ray F/KA3EKH




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