- 2024
- Apr
- 29
The 2024 TUSCO ARC Hamfest
This was my second year attending this show. It was maybe just a bit smaller than last year. This show seems to be a lot of “clean out the garage” items in bins, and a bunch of estate sale items from now silent keys. It seems to me that this is the club hangout day, and it’s a nice friendly event. Didn’t take long to tour, but well worth the drive.
Here’s what I saw this year:
This was a table full of items from a silent key. His wife is into radio as well, but not as much as the gent was, so she wanted it all to go away to other homes. Lot of nice radios and 60s vintage test equipment. I took home the EICO signal generator to the left, and a Knight RF generator (not shown) from this table - my only two purchases.
A National Radio “NC-Sixty Special-B” in a blue-gray cabinet. This is a general coverage shortwave receiver, and was in dirty but acceptable shape - even the power cord was that steel gray color! What’s unusual about this is the box is still with the unit. I think this is the first time I’ve seen a National box.
A table with random test equipment and radios. The Heathkit capacitor checker in the center was in really nice shape, and I had to walk away from it - fortunately someone else bought it. I could probably get that, clean it up, and turn it around for double the cash because people seem to be trying to reform crappy old electrolytics with these things instead of just buying good new ones.
Some National radio equipment. You can’t have a show without this stuff, and it was in pretty good shape with good prices.
Items for sale by (I believe) the club itself. I saw some of this stuff last year, the TV field strength meter is kind of cool looking in a sci-fi way but ultimately of little use to me. Nice big EICO generator there in back as well. Just random stuff that probably will find a home when the right buyer walks by.
Here’s the boat anchor portion of our program, these giant HP signal generators seem to show up in a lot of places, and this show was no exepction. The rest of the items were meters, equipment, and audio gear.
This gentlemen was at the show last year and had a similar assortment of odds n ends at good prices. Just random things.
That’s all for this year. I’ll attend next year assuming we’re not afraid of another election year variant cold!