[MRCG] Fwd: [armyradios] Xenia 2019 - Ira’s booth rocks!

[Tom]

  Here at my sisters home in Kingston ma 40 miles down the coast from Boston, next town north of Plymouth

Weather here sunny but breezy on the coast and cool

Band condition crummy!!! I have my window line fed dipole and tuner. Listened on 60 and 40 meters to see if any of they military guys would be on. No copy

Tom, w6tom

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> On May 18, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Craig VonIlten <craig.vonIlten at trustautomation.com> wrote:
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> 
> NF6X thought y’all might be interested in this too:
> 
>> Dayton Hamfest from boots on the ground - 
>> 
>> Ira’s got quite the roadshow.  He probably has the BEST military radio booth of the entire Dayton Hamfest.  I was there for a good part of the day, and I have to say that if you’re looking for military radio “stuff”, there wasn’t a lot of it there.  I scoured the flea market and found mostly flea’s.  There were R-390’s, and a fair amount of Collins gear...all of it at eBay prices.  So if you DROVE there...your savings wouldn’t be in the price...it would be in the shipping.  Unfortunately, you DROVE there...so any treasures you leave with likely ended costing you more.
>> 
>> Crowds...there was a LOT of human traffic (not ‘trafficking’) there.  
>> 
>> Weather = warm (80’s) and HUMID.  Could have been worse though...could have been in the 90’s.  All the radios set out the night before got a good freshwater bath too (heavy rain & thunderstorms).  I think some of the gear looked better after the rain (at least in the flea market areas).  Sunny & partly cloudy with a chance of more thunderstorms in the forecast.
>> 
>> If you needed some antenna gear...there was a LOT of that around too...but not too much of it was military.  I think every commercial dealer was there...and if you needed a tube or a connector, you’d likely find it here.
>> 
>> All-in-all, a fun event...but I think I prefer the MRCG event...quickly followed by the MVCC and MVPA events.  I can now cross Dayton off my bucket list.
>> 
>> Craig
>> N6CAV 
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