[R-390] R-390 and '390As for sale seen today at Hopkinton

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

Alex -

Wonder if we brushed shoulders? I arrived Saturday morning at around 8AM (to
avoid all of those 'good deals'), saw John from the list later in the day and
hung around with Mike Crestohl for part of the day. Saw George Rancourt and his
nifty display of european tube gear, including one of the Russian BC-348 copies.
Missed you and Bruce Howes, saw Gary Brown yammering with someone behind his
vehicle so I didn't interrupt. When I came back later, he was gone.  Mike saw a
nice SP-600 for $100 Friday night but passed on it, and I pointed a friend to a
nice 75A-4, 270G and 310B - not sure if he bought it, but the price was good. I
brought along my friend from oz so she could see that I'm not the only person
with this affliction, now she thinks most Yanks are just odd. Might've been some
of the AMers that gave her that impression? She did like Dale's jeep complete
with the operating '392 and '195 in back.

I saw one R-390A for $400 (an OT had it up on one of the side hill paths), and
the 'nice' (must've been for $800) R-390. It was still on the tailgate when we
left later. George made a good offer for it, but I'm guessing the seller was too
fond of it to let it go.

Also saw an SX-115 that supposedly sold for $2000, but the cabinet was painted
gray. I know Halli used gray on some of their earlier rigs, but I've never seen
a '115 that wasn't black and silver. Seller also had another Halli receiver with
a big price tag which he took home with him.

All and all it was a great day Saturday despite the wx forecast. Was raining
when I woke up at 6, but it stopped and cleared before we arrived there at 8,
and the rest of the day was sunny and 75-80�. I managed to buy a pair of Eimac
75th modulator tubes for one of my transmitters with sockets for a whopping $75
and a nifty old tube-type 11 mtr rig that was just too cheap to resist for $10.
A friend had an old wooden Westinghouse RA cabinet that he tried to give me but
I managed to trade a $5 bill for it.

Was surprised there weren't more R-390s this year, didn't see any RA-17s either.
Maybe next spring we should plan on a meeting place and time Friday night and
Saturday sometime. It would be good to meet you and whoever else shows up from
the list. I wonder if Bob Camp was there?

73 de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ

AI2Q Alex wrote:

> FYI-type msg:
>
> Those of us at the Hopkinton Fair grounds for the Hoss Traders hamfest today
> likely saw at least one nice condition R-390A ($400) and a clean R-390
> ($800). I don't know if they sold, but both looked good, and had top/bottom
> covers, and original meters.