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Michael Black[_3_]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, wrote:

pf: Under $100? That's my range! As long
as everything on it works. I can always
clean dirty tape heads and replace a missing
mast.

Now I regret not having gone! I hope
next year's shows are as prolific, boombox
wise.

I don't think it works that way.

ONe year at the oldest and largest local used book sale, I came upon some
technical books, including a 4th edition of the Radiotron Designer's
Handbook. All only a few dollars each. That got me excited, I hadn't
paid attention to that section before. And I did after that, and never
saw that sort of book there again.

Hobby electronic books would appear every few years, but nothing
significant. There was no trending.

But I know that finding something I really want makes me hope. Whether
it's a book sale or garage sale, finding something really good pulls me
along, it gets me excited and I keep at it, hoping to find some of the
same, and inevitably it doesn't, though usually I find something else
that's interesting and exciting.

Though, for about a decade, I was finding shortwave receivers every year,
recnt and old, all for under ten dollars. I even saw that Astronaut 7
that I had decided I wanted, after finding a lone copy of ELementary
Electronics with the radio advertised on the back cover. But it was
plugged in and being used, so I assume it wasn't for sale, but probably I
should have asked. But it was a good run, both a Grundig 500 and 700, a
Sony SW-1 with accessories in the "suitcase", some older fairly generic
portables that included a shortwave band or two, and the TMC GPR-90 for
$20 which was the only tube receiver I saw during that priod. The last
one was about 2016, an early seventies Panasoic (I think) portable that
looked like a piece of stereo equipment, but was a multiband portable.

So the search never ends, who knows what you'll find tomorrow. Just
yesterday I found a CD that is a fairly popular album, but I've never seen
it on CD in the used market.

Michael