Nutmeg Fester

[Carl WA1KPD]

Attended the Numeg fester today. Nice wx fair amount of vendors and picked up various parts for different projects,

One guy had the RF deck from a GK500 but he/ she was never at his when I checked table. Maybe it will show up at Nearfest. If he is local to CT I would be open to a deal so he doesn't have to lug it up.

Saw Frank GFZ and Rob W1AEX.

Hope to see you all at Nearfest. WX looks kinda crummy on Friday

[W1AEX]

Yah, it was nice to run into you Carl! Saw Frank GFZ, Larry LGQ, Bob KBW, Bill MPY, Kerry UFU, and Ken UDZ to name a few. There were also 3 different people walking around pretending to be K1JJ. Bought about 15 pounds of very unexciting but useful stuff: PL-259's, Mix 43 cores, shrink tubing, zip ties, AC line chokes, and a nice metal bench-type power strip. There was a decent pile of boat anchor stuff as well as the usual miscellaneous hi-fi audio gear to make things interesting. I was thinking of buying that nice SX-42 for my wife, but at the last minute decided it was the wrong color.

It was a top-ten day as far as the weather went. In fact, it was so nice outside that when I got home, I grabbed my wrist rocket slingshot and took a few random shots at a limb I have wanted to hang the western end of my antenna from, and got it on the 3rd try. That will lift the west end of the 250 foot center-fed about 15 higher to roughly 60 feet. Not a bad day's work! Oh, my wife got the whole yard raked and mowed too. Nice!

[WA1GFZ]

Yea Rob, It was a very nice day. I headed out at noon and took advantage of the dumpster in the yard. After walking around on the hard top for 4 hours I had enough. Same thing bought some parts and connectors.

[WA1LGQ]

Yeah, good weather, bright sunshine! It was good to see you guys there. Did not see JJ, but did see K1JCL, Al, and Steve, QIX. I did not stick around for the door prize this time and busted out not long after you Rob. Bob, GCM (Garbage Can Moocher) gave a good talk on QST equipment reviews. Oh and rumor has it that that GK500 rf deck got scooped up by a certain local notorious internet flipper. I did not buy anything of consequence, don't really need much, but saw a few good vintage items, SP600, Valiant, HQ-129, NC-303, HX-50 (in poor shape). Don't forget the auction in Feeding Hills, MA coming up soon.

...............Larry