Re: Report from Gloucester VA Hamfest

On 2/2/2025 11:08 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

bill  <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/1/2025 3:06 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

>
This year they had 44 tables sold, most of them indoors, and a very wide
variety of equipment on display and what kind of shocked me was that
prices on old boatanchors are dropping dramatically.  Lots of Heathkit
stuff at giveaway prices,

>
Tell that to eBay.  I still need a VFO for my DX-60 and when
they show up the prices are usually ridiculous.  But then, so
it is for everything else old.  I just went looking for an old
Knight kit Signal Generator.  Prices are usually at least 10
times the original price for something that may or may not work
and at the very least will need a complete upgrade of all the
capacitors, especially electrolytic.

 Ebay prices are insane.  As Wayne the RCA guy told me twenty years ago
at a hamfest, "Ebay is not for buying things, Ebay is only for selling
things."
 This is why we go to hamfests.
--scott
 

Where I live there isn't even a repeater (well, except for the
10 meter repeater I am hearing lately but can't reach) much less
hamfests.
bill
KB3YV