[NJARC] Radio Auctions - Report

[John Dilks K2TQN]

At 03:10 PM 10/12/04, Ray Chase wrote:
>Couple of interesting radio auctions coming up.
>1.  Saturday Oct. 6 at Monroeville, NJ (south of Glassboro), 25 Fitchorn 
>Rd. (this is an on-site auction).  9 AM, preview at 8 AM.  Radio 
>collection and HAM equipment, lots of tubes (1920??),  sounds pretty 
>good.  Info at 609-267-8382 (no personal checks).  Fellow was a HAM since 
>1945.

To all,

Well folks, I went and had a ball.  There was only one other NJARC member 
present, Steve Tetorka.  We only bid against each other once, there was 
that much stuff.  About 15 bidders were all that were interested in the 
radio stuff, and only about 5 were serious bidders, buying more than five 
or ten things.

Most of everything went from $1 to $5. A few transmitting tubes (new) went 
as high as $20.  But most of them went from $2 to $10.  Boxes of tubes went 
for and average $5.  Boxes of resistors, capacitors and other small parts 
went for $1 to $2.

My big find was actually 2.  I bought a Paragon A2 amplifier box with only 
one original control and knob for $2.  The box was painted aluminum, but so 
what - that will strip off.  My other, even better buy, was a Kennedy 
Intermediate Frequency Receiver (just the box), with most (or at least 
some) of the original parts, loose, inside, $17.50.  Nobody there knew what 
a Kennedy or Paragon radio was, with the exception of Steve, and he wasn't 
interested in them. -- oh-yes, I bought a box of keys too.  Two of them are 
home built.

Steve bought a really old HF relay-rack transmitter.  He'll have to tell 
you that story.

Also sold and of interest was a Westinghouse/RCA 1921 WD-11 1-tube radio 
for $110, with a tipped WD-11; and a Philco Cathedral which went for 
$115.  An Emerson with a Ingaham (spelling?) cabinet went for $60.  These 
three radios were in real nice condition.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN