{"id":8947,"date":"2016-06-19T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/19\/an-excellent-morning-at-the-manassas-virginia-hamfest\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:40:02","slug":"an-excellent-morning-at-the-manassas-virginia-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/19\/an-excellent-morning-at-the-manassas-virginia-hamfest\/","title":{"rendered":"An Excellent Morning at the Manassas, Virginia Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was quite pleased with the valuable items obtained at the Manassas Virginia Hamfest this morning. Armand WA1UQO and I once again combined forces, offering each other advice and counsel (NO! Forget it!) as we went through the flea market. <\/b>

<\/b> Above you can see what I got: <\/b>
TOP ROW: 1) A bunch of boxes. Nice aluminum boxes and two really good chassis. I may now have to build something with thermatrons. Armand gave me a really nice Ten-Tec box. Thanks Armand! <\/b>
MIDDLE ROW 2) Ten much needed coax patch cords. I promise to check the connections before using them. Really. I mean it this time. <\/b>
3) A nice circular coax switch. <\/b>
4) Two large hemostats. I told the woman I needed them for some surgery that I’d be performing later in the day. She was not amused. <\/b>
5) A homebrew SWR Monimatch box. Amazing. Dennis Klipa and I have been talking about these, so I bought this homebrew version. <\/b>
6) Nice Jackson Brothers reduction drive with tuning indicator. <\/b>
7) Really nice variable cap. <\/b>
8) Three crystals: two for 3.579 MHz CBLA work, the other for 40 meter phone. <\/b>
9) Forehead “coalminer” lamp<\/b>
10) Some PC boards. <\/b>
BOTTOM ROW 11) LARGE box of 455 kc IF transformers <\/b>

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As we were making the rounds we ran into Charles AI4OT. On the tailgate of his truck Charles had a BITX20 in operation! You can see it in the picture. Great to see you Charles and FB on the BITX. <\/b>

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I was quite pleased with the valuable items obtained at the Manassas Virginia Hamfest this morning. Armand WA1UQO and I once again combined forces, offering each other advice and counsel (NO! Forget it!) as we went through the flea market. Above you can see what I got: TOP ROW: 1) A bunch of boxes. Nice … Continue reading “An Excellent Morning at the Manassas, Virginia Hamfest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamfests-and-flea-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}