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

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:52:00 -0400

Hi,

Well since you asked -

I showed up Thursday at about 6 PM to meet up with the other half of our
little expedition at the parking lot. As I pulled up the cell phone went off
and the other half of the group pulled out for the night. Given that the
tarps and about 1/3 of the gear were packed in his load this made things a
little weird. The other item was that he had the RV and I didn't. Needless
to say this caused a rapid change in plans.

I returned at 6 AM Friday and rolled in at 9. I got mobbed as I opened up
the trailer and it was about 3 PM before I had enough of a break to do
anything at all. I didn't notice much gear on the route to and from the head
....

It rained on and off most of the day Friday and by the end of the day it had
been raining for about 4 hours straight. I had sold out of everything I
brought with me and decided to pack it in. I never did get a chance to see
much of what was there ....

Pretty strange even for me at a hamfest

    Bob Camp
    KB8TQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Bigelow - PS" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "R-390 (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] R-390 and '390As for sale seen today at Hopkinton

> 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.
>
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