Great review. Sounds like a great time. Wish I had gone. I had heard crowds where good. Maybe better than last year, comments?
What are vhf MSF 5000's going for? I may need one if I can't keep my midland repeater going! Rob. KS4EC Sent by Good Messaging (www.good.com) -----Original Message----- From: skipp025 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 08:13 AM Eastern Standard Time To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Sunday at Dayton Well... There are a decent number of Master II, MSF-5000, MSR-2000, Quintron - Glennayre & Ritron Repeaters out in the Dayton Flea Market spaces. I'm surprised how much ready to go 900 MHz equipment is available and modestly priced. Mendlesons is selling brand new 800 & 900 station master antennas (still in the cardboard tube). I saw a tub of Motorola Sabre HT's go for $75. If you ever wanted a Sabre now is the time to find them fairly cheap on the surplus market. A lot of people still think the Maxtrac 16 pin radios are worth much gold... hence we aren't seeing a lot of lateral movement of Radius type radios. One of the best deals to find at Dayton are the 2 to 6 foot hard- line and high quality coax jumpers. Typical prices are $10 to $20 each jumper, which is a great price if you are looking for that sort of thing. Rolls of 7/8 and a ton of superflex are being offered by many of the commercial radio types (dealers) selling surplus NOS feed-line. People are using Micor Mobiles to hold down their tents... on Sunday as folks depart a scoop loader comes down the rows picking up what everyone leaves behind. A few MVP's and Mitrek radios are sprinkled around. This year Motorola HT-600's seem to be plentiful although there is no reported (yet) "going rate/price" per radio. Most of the 220 band ACSB stuff we see every year is gone... just one LMR (Linear Modulation) 220 ACSB Repeater and some SEA Mobiles here and there. A fairly large number of duplexers and cavity bottles sprinkle the landscape and I'm told the prices for a typical close spaced two meter duplexer are still in hundreds of dollars range. One mystery 2m (vhf band) duplexer... looks like a Sinclair brand product but reportedly turns out to be a fairly odd-ball Decibel Products package. Cliff and Doug have a lot of neat 900 stuff available so stop by their spaces if you'd like to say hi and see the goodies. The smell of kerosene and bbq blow through the entire area... some from the cooking food grill and a number of utility carts people drive around. The "Cowgirls Drill Team" Support Group has the brauts... In another half day Dayton 2008 will pass into the history books. Still holding strong to my 12-Step "Junk Enders" Program but man it's tough. Many people are very willing to ship things... cheers, s. Since 1974, the award-winning Alpert JFCS has helped families of all faiths throughout most of Palm Beach County, FL, via counseling, seniors services, residences for the disabled, mentoring children, support groups and a lot more. SOLUTIONS FOR LIVING www.JFCSonline.com Please take note of our new website and E-Mail Addresses. Please update your contacts ASAP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged and confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and please delete it from your computer.
