I'm wondering if there's anyone here, local(ish) to me, who'd be
interested in an Avo Valve Characteristic Meter. My Dad recently passed
away and I've inherited it, along with a beautiful CR100 ex-Navy comms
receiver.

I'll be keeping the radio as I've so many memories from childhood of
slowly (oh, so, so slowly!) trawling my way through the bands; [1] and it
does still rank as a pretty good receiver.

The tester on the other hand isn't really of much use to me. I'm
competent, after a fashion, with valve electronics but I've so little clue
on how to use it and almost no spare time.. My Dad, however, saw it as
indispensable kit for his restoration work.

I've checked up on eBay and it seems I could get a very reasonable price
if I were willing to go through the bother of figuring out shipping and
all that kerfuffle, but I'd much rather avoid the trouble. I'm willing to
accept slightly below what it's worth, or rather roughly what it's worth,
but with free shipping (ie delivery, by myself, in a car!). The sticking
point is finding someone within 70 or 80 miles who'd be interested.

I'm based in Sheffield but regularly travel to N.Wales, so anywhere close
to the relevant motorways counts as accessible. Likewise pretty much
anywhere in Yorkshire.

[1] And of matching it to a homebrew interface card, bolted onto my prized
ZX81, running a homebrew RTTY/Morse translator! What a lovely mixture of
museum exhibits that would be, what a span of years; if I could only find
the relevant bits and have a go at resurrection :-)

Thanks for any input, sorry for the distracted ramblings ;¬)

Oh, and it's a Mark IV Avo.

--
Dave Johnson.