[TenTec] Found in the Dayton Fleamarket...

[Steve Ellington N4LQ]

Grrrrr.. At 8:05AM, I was standing in the mist of an angry crowd waiting for
them to open the gate. They didn't let us in until 8:20 until after the mob
was about ready to storm the fence. How did you manage to sneak in?

Steve N4LQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul R. Valko <prvalko@oakland.edu>
To: Paul Valko <pvalko@ci.auburn-hills.mi.us>
Cc: tentec@contesting.com <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:40 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Found in the Dayton Fleamarket...


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>At 8:05am on Friday morning, I found myself walking through the fleamarket
>over by the big multi-vendor tent.
>
>Lucky Me!  I had a "FLEAMARKET" pass and got in there to walk around at
>7am.
>
>As I slowly strolled through a far back corner, I glanced into a fellows
>station wagon.
>
>I blinked.
>
>I blinked again, hard.
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>I reached into my wallet and pulled out some greenbacks.
>
>The guys that owned the space were buzzing about the first sale of the
>day... what did he want?  What's he buying?
>
>With total silence, as to not possibly wake me up - should it only be a
>dream - I reached into the cluttered station wagon, and pulled out... a
>Ten*Tec Model 200 VFO.
>
>Thus completing the collection of Ten*Tec's 1973 forray into the
>Novice-Class station equipment.  A model RX-10 receiver, a model TX-100 (a
>TUBE-based transmitter) and the Model 200, the external VFO for the
>TX-100.
>
>Less than one hour after walking into the flea-market, another Holy Grail,
>found.
>
>73! =paul= W8KC
>Collector of Ten*Tecs and other fine plastics
><http://www.acs.oakland.edu/~prvalko>
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