[Milsurplus] Dayton Day Two

[Ray Fantini]

Dayton Day Two:
Today started with scattered clouds and no rain but by ten or so the rains came. Same amount of sellers as yesterday with around twenty percent of the spaces empty hard to tell if it was weather related or just low attendance.
Going to assume that about twenty percent of all the sellers in the flea market are selling vacuum tube technology and of that group maybe a good third are selling Military technology and maybe about a half dozen selling just military radio equipment.
Saw everything else just about the same as yesterday and will mention that there was a handful  of SP-600, HRO receivers but mostly all consumer versions and not M series and three SX-28 receivers.
Did see a couple SX-28 receivers along with things like a TCS set up for under $100
The 3885 Net had around fifteen check-ins running radios like the BC-611 and my DAV to fairly modern backpacks and the 18.157.5 Pack net around the same numbers. The 51.0 FM Cold War Net had around thirty check-ins with a ton of PRC-68 users .
Somehow my call got dropped from both Nets and was able to jump in on the AM net but the Cold War Net was canceled early by the threat of rain and lightning.
Due to the weather everyone packed up and left the site in a hurry, prevented all stations from participating.
I will be posting more in the next day or so after I have had the chance to think about all that went on.

Ray F/KA3EKH




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