[R-1051] Frostfest AAR

Wed Feb 7 14:20:25 EST 2018

First off, anyone who likes the R-1051, URC-35 or the URT-23 has no clue what a light radios is! We should be use to radios that are heavy. Starting to think that the government buys radios by weight and not for performance. This is not just limited to the old General Dynamics stuff but the next generation of Harris and Sunair radios like the URC-94, RF-350K and the Sunair 9000 family of radios I have in the shop are now just a heavy as the old stuff if not more. Have not seen any of the Joint radio stuff but somehow think it will be heavy too.
The thing today is shipping, you can get to a place where you are paying more for shipping then the radio itself. And that’s where the Hamfest come in, unfortunately looks like there are less around and only the big ones are worth the effort to drag set out. Dayton or Xenia is coming and that’s worth the trouble and some of the smaller regionals may be of value like FrostFest, otherwise what are you going tpo do with all this stuff?

Ray F/KA3EKH

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From: r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob kb8tq
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [R-1051] Frostfest AAR

Hi

The *real* risk is that we all read one of these great posts and mark our calendars for next year. We all show up and try to sell 129,586 lb of “good stuff” at the same location…..

Bob

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 10:22 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ray
> Nice write up and your last comment is the real question.
> Though I get to the new england swaps and such we are all older.
> Especially if you were in the service and used these radios.
> Amazingly I used to like to buy Lbs/$. Now the old question comes up.
> How much does that weigh??? No matter the cost.
> 
> I suspect thats on many of our minds especially as we start to down 
> size our treasures.
> I have recently restored some BC 3XXs and like them well. But 3 units 
> is more then enough.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Frostfest was another good turnout. Saw lots of stuff there although 
>> starting to see the new equipment dealers and bin sellers crowed out 
>> the people who are just selling their own stuff. Keep in mind that 
>> all tables were sold out at least a month in advance. The good thing 
>> is that now it appears that it's only Ham related material and not 
>> the people selling crap like holistic foods or socks.
>> I saw for sale at least three R-390A receivers including my own that 
>> did not sell for $450 but did see a table across from me sell there 
>> R-390A with cabinet for $475 being it was a genuine Collins R-390A 
>> along with a R-390A that was in poor condition up the isle from me 
>> that sold for $200. There was also a ratty looking R-390, non A along 
>> with a SP-600 that I saw but do not know what they were asking and if 
>> they sold or not. Other radios sited were things like a restored 
>> BC-342 that sold for $250 and a regular BC-342 for $100, a PRC-25 
>> along with its vehicle adaptor for $400 and a Watkins Johnson 8716 
>> that sold for around $500. I sold one of the PRD-11 Watkins Johnson 
>> receivers I had for $300 and some odds and ends and have to say that I have always done well selling at Frostfest.
>> There were other radios that were less noticeable like URR-35 
>> receivers,
>> SX-28 and at least one BC-348 but did not look at them. Noticeable in 
>> their absence were any of the ARC-5 Command sets or TCS sets, 
>> although there were lots of vintage parts from the ones that were 
>> gutted years ago. There were handsets, microphones and headsets for 
>> VRC/PRC radios at prices ranging from $10 to $30 and as always lots 
>> of NOS Tubes both military and commercial.
>> Aside from a H-161 headset the only other thing I bought there was a 
>> Motorola HT1000 handheld radio along with its convertacom , speaker 
>> and microphone with the idea of installing it in my truck for Ham 
>> opps, don't care how cheap or good the new Ham stuff is just can't 
>> accept the idea of running anything form a Ham radio manufacture so 
>> thought the old Motorola would be a good choice. All the Motorola 
>> stuff cost a total of $30 but now the new problem is that I have to 
>> find the Motorola RIB programing cable and get a copy of the Motorola RSS software.
>> The next sale will be at the NEM over near BWI outside Baltimore on 
>> the 24th and after that will be looking at shows like the MVPA up in 
>> Aberdeen and then Dayton.
>> Hope to have at least three or four R-390A receivers finished and 
>> ready to sell at Dayton this year and although did not sell one at 
>> Frostfest maybe I can do better there? Between what they are costing 
>> me to buy and the amount of time that's being spent disassembling, 
>> cleaning and verifying that everything on them is working I thought 
>> asking $450 was a good price for selling them but now starting to wonder if the day of the R-390A is done?
>> 
>> Ray F/KA3EKH
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