[R-390] Dayton

[Walter Wilson]

Jerry,

I know of at least six R-390As and at least one R-390 that were in the flea
market.  I had two fully restored ones, priced accordingly.  I saw one still
available late Saturday afternoon.  I picked up one R-390A for myself to
restore, and one very affordable Johnson Ranger.  We had two Johnson Viking
IIs (with VF0) in our spot at the start on Friday, and one of those lasted
until Saturday morning.  I saw at least one other fairly nice Johnson
Valiant, and then a few of those higher priced ones you mentioned.  I only
saw one SP-600 early Friday.  I agree there were less boatanchors than the
usual amount, though.  One very popular vendor who had maybe 25 or so last
year had none this year.  He seems to be selling all of his vintage gear on
eBay.

The FT-817s certainly were a blow-out price.  I picked up a 706 MkIIG, and
will be HF mobile by the end of the day.  ;-)

Walter Wilson - KK4DF
http://www.knology.net/~wewilson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Kincade" <w5kp@swbell.net>
To: <R-390@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: [R-390] Dayton


> Got back late last night. 1,974.1 miles round trip. My butt will recover
by
> the weekend, I'm sure.
>
> Did not see one single solitary R-390/R-390A in the flea market, might
have
> missed one somewhere, but clearly not much there in the boatanchor line.
No
> SP-600's, no Johnsons with only a couple of overpriced exceptions. A few
> Hallicrafters, one fair SX-115 (priced at $2K).
> Collins S-lines for sale everywhere you turned, didn't see any of them
> selling as of late Sat PM. Many dirty and so-so condition Drake 4-lines,
> also not selling. Practically no heavy iron. If you needed a six year old
> laptop, cheesy software, or a cell phone cord, however, you were in
> business.
> Best bargains: late model ex-gov't HP/Tek test equipment, and FT-817's
> selling for $499 on a pay now, drop ship Monday basis.
>
> Sorry I missed Barry and the other guys, couldn't find you all. The booth
> numbers I had must have been wrong, or maybe I was just lost. 3,000 or so
> booths and none of them marked with their booth numbers made things fun.
>
> Inside was great, incredible number of vendors and manufacturers.
> Fun trip, now I've seen the other side of the mountain. It was worth it. I
> bought a couple of wattmeter slugs and a Bird 500W load, plus some
Solder-it
> stuff and a sack of used 4-125A's that may or may not be any good. That's
> about it.
> 73, Jerry W5KP
>
>
>
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