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Old 11th Aug 2017, 10:13 pm   #13
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Default Re: Port Seton Junk Night

Contact a club first. The amateur radio population is shrinking and many clubs have a lot of gear bequeathed to them that they're just storing. The wiser ones lend it out to new members who are just getting going. 2m/70cm are rather quiet in central/eastern Scotland, so HF equipment may be more interesting.

I was at the junk sale and bought my first Hacker, a long/medium wave Herald in grey. £5 seems good, and a spare model 8 MK9 AVO, £35, oh and a large 3-pin bulgin mains connector, the cable part for 50p. Had a good blether.

Yes there was vintage stuff around.

An AR88
A ferranti woodie
A Pye bakelite job
That Hacker and a Roberts.
Lissen slow motion drives
Interstage transformers... Lissen and Ferranti
A double table filled with valves
A marine LF/MF rx
Military hedsets
A CT?? miniature scope, the one with the wire stand which swings over the front panel
Several bakelite AVOs at about a fiver each.
An Eddystone 770

Yup, plenty to keep people hereabouts happy.

David
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