W4FT on Amateur Radio » Gear For Sale

Selling the computer? Please unpack the mouse first!

w4ft — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:04:41 +0000

Before you take one of your treasures to sell at a hamfest, please unpack the mice!

After last Saturday’s RARSFest, we all went home exhausted and stayed that way all day Sunday. One of my fellow RARS members shared the following. On Sunday night, he was resting on the couch, still recovering, when he heard a quiet rustling noise.

When he went to his kitchen to investigate, he caught a glimpse of a mouse dashing around the corner. He put out a plastic humane mouse trap box, and in short order, he caught the culprit, which was released in the field outside.

Shortly after coming back from that release, he heard the rustling noise again! And again, he put the mouse trap out and captured another mouse! No, it wasn’t the same little critter! So he released this one outside shortly afterwards.

But where did they come from? Later that evening, after recovering some energy, he started checking out his haul from the hamfest which he had left next to the back door in the kitchen. This included a mini-rack with a computer backplane and a power supply. When he dismantled the rack to get the power supply, he found that it had some unexpected contents — mouse droppings! That was his “a-ha” moment.

Moral of the story – when you take stuff to a hamfest, please be sure to leave the mice at home!

Isn’t there an old saying that there’s no such thing as “just two mice”?

73,
W4FT

What goes up…. the TA-33M is back down.

w4ft — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:21:36 +0000

Well, I said it was temporary. On Friday, I took the TA-33M down. As soon as I can get the pieces all together and figure out an asking price, I will put it up for sale. If nobody buys it earlier, I’ll have it at the RARSFest 2010 hamfest at the Raleigh, NC State Fairgrounds on April 3. Along with the standard 3-band TA-33, I have the 17m+12m driven element and the 40 meter extension kit. I haven’t decided if I will sell it as a complete package or three seperate packages. There’s a used Rohm push-up mast too. More to follow.
73,
Cliff W4FT

Ham Gear for Sale

w4ft — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:45:17 +0000

Ooh, waaaay too many ham radio accessories around the house! There’s a long story, but the short version is that I have a lot of ham accessories and the time has come to part with them. You can read all about it on the other pages, but know that I kept some of the goodies for myself! Just click on the link at the top of the page – Ham Accessories for Sale – to see the list of stuff available. Those pesky terms and conditions are on the page in the pulldown under that same tab.

Hope you find something you like.

73,
W4FT