Richmond Frost Fest

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

I'll be there on Sunday. Anyone else?

[N3DRB The Derb]

i wish I could. I need some stuff. Some pot cleaner, some ant wire, some ladder line, a old buzzardly lookin speaker for the 75A2 JN loaned me.

I'll be going to Timonum this year I thinks. Long as my seizures are under control. Party after too.

[The Slab Bacon]

I'll be going to Timonum this year I thinks. Long as my seizures are under control. Party after too.

KOOL BEANZ OM!!!!!!!!! It will be great to see yo mug here!!

[W3SLK]

Frostfest was always a good venue. All indoors, pretty large arena. If people couldn't get inside, they would tailgate outside. I just wish it wasn't so far away, otherwise I would have gone today. Duane, KK4AM and I would go. It seems we would always wind up eating cold fried chicken with salt&vinegar potato chips for lunch.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Pretty good show this year. Well attended and a fair amount of "good" stuff. Just what I can remember

HRO
HQ-120
HQ-129
TR-105
RME 45
Viking 1
Eico 730
Bunch of Twoer and Sixers
SP-600
Lots of tubes, even TX types
At least 50 D-104s!
Some dude got a 51J-4 with all three filters for $100
... and more

Got me an apparently fairly rare Zenith Shutter Dial Table Top radio.

[N3DRB The Derb]

yea, thats one of he better tabletop models. I bet it plays dont it? those caps in those Zenith's are like iron, they often dont go bad enough o make h radio ever quit. I've fixed 7 or 8 of them back in the golden age radio days. Sweet radios.

that one looks better than most. watch the plastic buttons, they'll break if he control behind it binds or sticks.

[n3lrx]

Timmy,
How much ladda line do you need?
I just bought 100' of it and probably only used about 60' of it. 40' is not allot but it will do for a little while anyway.
I've also got plenty of wire left that JN gave me. I can spool off a couple hundred feet for you and ship it to you.

Lemme know.. If you want it, its yours..

[WD4TC]

  Steve , I thought I heard you voice around the 51J but did not get to see where it came from. I was paying Attention to the guy who was opening the receiver to take a look , waiting  for him to remove his hand from it and walk away so I could pay the man ! OOwell  I guess I was 20 seconds Late Again..Sorry I did not get to meet you in person,as we talked a few times on the air. Maybe Next time....I thought it was a decent fest. I did loose about 3 hours of it getting the extra class test done ..  Tim...WD4TC..

[WA1GFZ]

Sounds better than marlboro. no real tubes. 813s for $20
1 D104 and the little girl didn't know the price her Dad set.
But we had a good time!

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Sorry I missed you Tim. I only saw a few people I knew at the fest. We'll have to do better coordination next year and get all the AMers together.


Derb, I haven't fired the Zenith up yet. Gonna put it on the variac if I do that. The pix I attached is not of the one I bought. Mine needs some resto work. But I think it will like pretty close to the one in the pix when I'm done. All the knobs and buttons are missing. Got a source for those all lined up. Someone did put a few new orange drops and electrolytics in it sometime in the recent past. I didn't see any parts or trannys oozing and no burnt marks. Hopefully it will fire up without major surgery. Should be fun. Matches my console shutter dial nicely (same exact chassis).

[N3DRB The Derb]

that doesnt extend to the filters. Bu i swear Zenith had coupling and bypass caps that about 70% of he time just did not get leaky. And if thy did, it was very high ohmage, You never found stuff like a .01 with a 100K resistance. Just didnt happen. Might be a meg, bu hey just did no go bad like most caps of the era did to the extent they did. I always wondered why. good score. shutter dials are the shit.