[MRCA] Dayton Day Two

[Ray Fantini]

Today, Saturday was overcast in the morning and there was about a solid hour of rain with clearing before noon. Attendance was down today over yesterday because of the weather. There were fewer sellers in the tailgating section being that may stay closed because of the threat of rain. Did notice several more R-388 or 51J receivers today, almost as many as there were R-390 receivers in the $400 price range including a clean R-388 with matching case for $450 Saw a couple CV-591 SSB adapters but they were expensive being around $400 or so. Also saw a TMC GRP-90 with case for $500 and the matching SSB adapter for $600 and saw several ARC-5 sets with one complete for $25 to $75 I gave real thought to trying to buy a Harris RF-590 but it was out of my price range being $1,700 so ended up collecting up a bunch of APR1 and 4 tuning units along with another APR-4 for $40
The 3885 AM net control was a beautiful TBX-8 with battery box, and external HV motor generator for the transmitter with a total of 29 stations checking in using Pogo Sticks, MAB, DAV and several BC-611 although not as many BC-611 sets as in past years. The 51.0 Cold War net had a total of 56 stations check in with Dales net control progressing thru three different radios due to failures, many PRR/PRT sets, lots of PRC-126,68 and European sets and one person who had just bought a PRC-25, found someone selling the batteries and got it on the air this afternoon.
As usual don’t plan on being there tomorrow although did notice several of the regular” hard core” military radios group will be there. I think this has been a great year for selling, at least for me and have noticed a new trend in sellers. You have the usual dealers and individuals who know what they are selling and ask a fair or at least what would think is a reasonable price and then you had at least five or six sellers who were selling out estates and selling at bottom prices. The guy that sells the big custom tube amplifiers had a truck full of what must have been a estate and everything he sold was at a good price, that’s were the ARR-15, PRC-47, TU tuning units and lots of other stuff got sold. He had one of those huge HF receiver transmitter sets that were used in armored service that he sold the transmitter for $80 and the receiver for $40, wish I had seen it first being that’s the radio that in the CQ Surplus conversion manual listed it as a 400 Lbs of nothing. What a great radio that would be to use there next year or at Gilbert!
Ray F
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