[MRCG] Meet summary
Tim
timsamm at gmail.com
Wed May 10 01:12:21 EDT 2017
Hi Mark - Many thanks for the Pix from you and Tom - and the debrief!
Sorry I missed it. No fox hunt this time??
Tim
N6CC
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> 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/
>
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