• 2024
  • Aug
  • 7

The Columbus 2024 Hamfest

This year’s show was maybe 2/3 the size of normal - I suspect the dangerous looking skies kept some people away, but fortunately the rain held off for the show. It was, however, sticky enough that you could probably have put a straw in the air and drank some.

There were still some interesting things to be found at this year’s show, and some good deals to be had. This is what I saw this year:

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A Cushman broadcast band analyzer and a counter among the parts.
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A board from an early Atari arcade cabinet.
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A “Bedframe” antenna. Well built.
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One of those early programmable scanners at the bottom of a pile. Used punchcards.
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I believe this is the club’s table.
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An HP 3300 Distortion Analyzer and some sort of teaching breadboard.
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What you expect to see at these shows.
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A silent key’s artifacts.
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You could bean someone with that switch.
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Just stuff.
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More of what you expect at these shows.
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An Edmont sound level meter with Coshocton, OH markings.
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Some equipment that went home with me, all lonesome.
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The decade box I brought home, should have grabbed the vibrator tester too.
My haul from the 2024 Columbus Hamfest »
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