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26th Jun 2022, 5:28 pm | #1 |
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Newbury rally 2022
I went to this today; there were a few 'interesting' things; several HRO receivers, but all only had the general-coverage coilpacks meaning they were not of interest to me. Prices seemed to be in the £100-£150 region.
There was a 'strange' AR88 - with several additional front-panel controls which looked to have been professionally added, and a S-meter that was calibrated in Roentgens! I didn';t stop to ask the price. A few rather beaten-up WS19 and R1155 too. Some Pye Westminsters, I was kinda tempted by the one with xtals for 70.26 and 70.45MHz. In the end I came away with a bag-full of genuine Amphenol BNC-plugs, some SO239-to-BNC-converters, a KW-Match SWR-meter from the early-50s, a Pye 'Tulip' microphone, enough heatshrink-sleeving to see me out, and a 12V-to-HT-converter module that will soon be finding a home inside one of my R209 receivers which has a failed vibrator-transformer.
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26th Jun 2022, 7:33 pm | #2 | |
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Re: Newbury rally 2022
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One of the things I like most about rallies in general is those chance finds of arcane parts that one had long given up on ever finding for a project that was shelved long ago, and can now be re-visited- assuming that the rest of it is still in the loft, shed etc. |
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26th Jun 2022, 10:52 pm | #3 |
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Re: Newbury rally 2022
It's quite likely that there is radium paint on the pointer and scale of that meter. So, self checking, then, in its original application.
So many AR88 lacked meters that there was a major industry fitting any available meter, upside down if necessary. David
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