Today's hamfest swag - any one get any goodies?

[N3DRB The Derb]

me an Glo were too sick to go to Howard County today - I know there were a few others. Anyone got any 'new' goodies?

[WQ9E]

Well, I didn't go to Howard County but I had to finish up some consulting business in Eastern Iowa so I took advantage of the trip to go to the W. Liberty hamfest.  I went for the first time last year after winning some tickets and it is a small but very friendly fest.  A pre-fest cookout was scheduled the night before so I went for a preview of possible goodies and the food was fine but the site also has a dirt track with a race that night so the QRM was very loud with dirt track cars racing with nothing downstream of the exhaust headers.

I went back this morning at 7:00 A.M. and a new hamfest first for me, it started hailing lightly but fortunately the rain and hail moved out in short order.  I came back to IL with a mint looking Swan 350 and matching power supply/speaker console; a very nice FT-101B with both power cords, mic, CW and AM filters which came from a silent key estate and had never been exposed to being a CB or appliance operator rig; an NC-173 with matching speaker; and several pieces of assorted test gear.  Total outlay was $375 and besides the hail/rain it was a very enjoyable morning.  There were a number of good deals available including an SX-115 for $600 (I was happy to see a deserving AMer picked it up and I already have a nice one and don't need a second).  It would have been a lengthy trip just for the hamfest (about 300 miles round trip for me) but since I already needed to be 20 miles away it worked out perfectly.

Rodger WQ9E

[w3jn]

You didn't miss much DRB, there were quite a few people there but nothing much of interest.  A RA6790GM went for $250, I scored a few toobs (including some baloon 42s, never seen those before) and some misc crap.