Radio Society of Greater Bixby

Entering the outbuilding behind the house you were greeted with an enormous Ham collection of a lifetime, and atop shelves on the far wall, dozens of 2M cavities (those round things on the top). Motorola experts would know if those stacks of radios were Maxars or Mocoms, but all the rest of us could do was look in amazement and then turn to another group of items to ask, Are these dummy loads, only to be told by an expert, No, isolators, or circulators. What’s that. There was a small stack, maybe half a dozen, of Kenwood commercial UHF mobiles. You could find familiar Ham items too such as MFJ accessories. And parts. Parts. Parts. And a scope or two. And . . . .

Tom KJ5NMH found a 1960s era HT-200 handie, a dual freq model (Motorolas in those days were often single, dual, or sometimes 4 freq variations) and took it home for a pittance (and put in a home made freq synthesizer – also PL tone synthesizer – that he designed himself.) (It’s the size of a crystal can, not quite an inch square.) Here are two boards he has made recently, the postage stamp size freq and tone generator that fits inside an H/T, and the slightly larger multi freq board for mobile rigs.

Kenny KJ5EKW and Rich WA5ZQG each found what appear to be new in box 220 rigs (Chinese) and are working on antennae for them. Paul WB5ANX was prominent among volunteers helping to make the sale successful. At the end of the morning, although many items were taken, the sale had made only a dent in the inventory.