[MRCG] Meet summary

[Mark J. Blair]

Geoff and Jay, I hope that you can both attend next year!

Dennis didn't attend this year, and I didn't see anybody taking videos. There were lots of pictures taken, though. I just put up the pictures that W6TOM and I took this evening:

http://www.mrcgwest.org/2017/05/09/2017-mrcg-meet-pictures-de-w6tom/
http://www.mrcgwest.org/2017/05/09/2017-mrcg-meet-pictures-de-nf6x/

We had six presentations on Friday afternoon. The swap on Saturday was fun as usual. My haul this year included a 1965 AN/TXC-1 facsimile machine, a Mite teleprinter, a CV-189 RTTY converter, and an HP-85 computer (an off-topic, pre-arranged transaction with another MRCG attendee). Chuck N7UVZ also adopted another AN/TXC-1! Both of our machines are missing their PP-86E power supplies. Chuck grabbed the last one at Fair Radio Sales, while I'll need to find one somewhere else or build something functionally equivalent. I don't know much about what other folks scored, but I did notice at least one R-390A on a seller's table which disappeared from it later in the day, and I noticed some GRC-106 gear and another Mite teleprinter moving from one end of the lot to another. The swap meet generally includes gear covering the range from spark gaps through frequency hopping! And Bjorn always has some exotic stuff; the Swedish rig that he displayed on Friday ended up in the swap meet on Saturday, and one of my radio buddies talked me out of the piece of field phone wiretapping gear that I brought for my display and presentation.

The displays were good as usual, with gear ranging from WW1 through "late enough for LED numeric readout".

I'm sure that others had different perspectives on the meet than I have, and I hope some of y'all will share them here.

-- 
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/