My good friends who always go to Dayton and now Xenia, had an excellent time, selling just about all the brought, including an entire S line.  I picked up some URR gear Craig, N3TPM sold me and brought to Xenia from PA and my buddies hauled it all back back, saying if they had not sold almost out, they might not have had enough room to bring my stuff back, which I have yet to go over to Clyde, NC and retrieve.   But they did say, as they have for several years now, there are a lot of new hams that have no clue about vintage gear or milsurp and they answered more questions about, "What is that?" so often it was sad.  One fellow even picked up an FT243 and asked what it was.    They might as well be looking at the dinosaurs in the museum.  They have no basis in ham history and for a lot of years our national organization has been pretty adamant about wanting us to go away.  You hear them on the air, they bought their dipole ready made, they use words like 'contact' and 'base station', but hopefully they will assimilate into the real hobby without a keyboard.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC