{"id":33423,"date":"2018-08-07T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33423"},"modified":"2018-08-08T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:03:18","slug":"boat-anchors-at-voice-of-aladdin-arc-columbus-hamfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/boat-anchors-at-voice-of-aladdin-arc-columbus-hamfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Anchors at Voice of Aladdin ARC Columbus Hamfest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post by Eric McFadden, WD8RIF<\/em><\/p>\n

I had the pleasure of attending the annual Voice of Aladdin Amateur Radio Club’s Columbus Hamfest this past weekend, on Saturday, August 4, 2018. The Columbus Hamfest is a smaller, local or regional hamfest but every year when I attend I’m pleasantly surprised by the presence of a really nice variety of fine used gear available at the event. This year was no exception.<\/p>\n

I made snaps of some of the fine old “boat anchors” and some of the not-so-old stuff available at the hamfest. (And I must apologize for the flaring evident in some of the photos.\u00a0It seems the lens in my MotoE4 smartphone is prone to flaring in direct sunlight\u2014somehow, up this point I had not managed to discover this.)<\/p>\n

\"Realistic

Realistic DX-160<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Central

Central Electronics “Multiphase Exciter Model 20-A” transmitter<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Yaesu

Yaesu FT-101EX transceiver and accessories<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Collins

Collins R-388\/URR receiver<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Drake

Drake R8 receiver<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Johnson

Johnson Viking Ranger transmitter<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A

A selection of MFJ single-band QRP (low power) CW-only transceivers and a vintage Heathkit SWR bridge<\/p><\/div>\n

At the event, I hadn’t noticed how many of the vintage receivers were made by Hallicrafters.<\/p>\n

\"Hallicrafters

Hallicrafters “Sky Buddy”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hallicrafters

Hallicrafters HT-32A transmitter<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hallicrafters

Hallicrafters SX-101 receiver<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hallicrafters

Hallicrafters SX-111 receiver<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hallicrafters

Hallicrafters SX-99 receiver<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Heathkit

Heathkit DX-100 (bottom) and Hallicrafters HT-37 transmitters<\/p><\/div>\n

And while not a radio, this is certainly vintage and is very pretty\u2014and it was for sale.<\/p>\n

\"1966

1966 Chevrolet pickup-truck (it was for sale)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"1966

1966 Chevrolet pickup-truck (it was for sale)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"1966

1966 Chevrolet pickup-truck (it was for sale)<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A guest post by Eric McFadden, WD8RIF I had the pleasure of attending the annual Voice of Aladdin Amateur Radio Club’s Columbus Hamfest this past weekend, on Saturday, August 4, 2018. The Columbus Hamfest is a smaller, local or regional hamfest but every year when I attend I’m pleasantly surprised by the presence of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1271,1],"tags":[7162,1146,2887,4102,4182],"class_list":["post-33423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-anchors-2","category-uncategorized","tag-boat-anchor-tuesday","tag-boat-anchors","tag-eric-mcfadden","tag-ham-radio","tag-hamfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8H5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33589,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/photos-from-the-berryville-hamfest\/","url_meta":{"origin":33423,"position":0},"title":"Photos from the Berryville Hamfest","author":"Thomas","date":"August 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares a few photos he took at the Berryville, Virginia, hamfest recently. 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