On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:10:57 UTC, "gianfranco"
wrote:

I live in Italy and some years I went to visit Dayton hamvention .
Really impressive for me coming from Europe .
Now I would know if there are in the USA other
similar hamfests where and some comments from the american collegues .
My wish is to try to visit some other hamfest .
Thenks for your help
Gianfranco


A large regional hamfest is the farfest this weekend. It's also
called the Gaithersburg hamfest.

Speaking of Gaithersburg, if you google for "R-9xx Collins", you'll
get a page that discusses the fabled R-390A that had a factory built
LED digital display in place of the Veeder-Root mechanical counter.

About 30 years ago I saw one of these for sale at Gaithersburg. It
wasn't a homebrew job, the vendor had the manual for it, I recall
that he fanned it and showed folks the circuit diagrams. That's
diagrams, plural.

So you Collins types, a piece of trivia, the "R-9xx" is real. I was
"this close" to it. I wonder where it is today. I bet that an
R-9xx would make an SX-88 or KW-1 look cheap.


an aside, at Berryville a few weeks ago, a fellow had both an
HF-380 and a beater KWM-2. This thing had a binding PTO, was
missing tubes, and the cabinet that looked like it had been hammered
by elves. After mulling it over, I'm interested in the M-2, if
anyone knows the seller, a 3 from Pennsylvania, I'd like to dicker
with him.


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Thanks!