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>
> I'll chip in soon - and with pictures, but for now I'm in Amsterdam
> and a bit busy/tired. One good note - the airline found the piece of
> luggage they lost. I was worried...it was the one with all my Dayton
> goodies in it!


So what all goodies did you find?

Thanks again for the help with the batteries.  Josh took some of his time
away from shopping to help me find and install batteries for dad's power
chair.  Although dad had charged them all night before leaving, they ran
flat before we even got to the gate that morning.   He got the chair when
grandma died last year, and I think she may be sending him a message. We
also had to pick the lock on the chair, as we managed to leave the key back
home, about 90 miles away.

Josh also turned me on to a guy who was selling Libretto 50 computers for
$30, and I have one of those here as a spare to my other lib-50 lab rat.
I'll probably put linux on it :)  It's completely working.

I snagged a nice 4-1 balun for $3, and some small square aluminum tubing for
antenna-making for a couple bucks.

I found a switched antenna DF rig for $1, and some nice hardline patch
cables, and a pocket full of uranium marbles and other misc parts from my
buddy "Phil the bird man".

Phil is the guy that sourced me some 2N7000 mosfets one afternoon.  I still
get fallout from that incident though, as I made the mistake when someone
asked me on the radio where I was headed, and I said that I was going to
Hooters in indianapolis to pick up some parts.
Now the choice of meeting place was phil's, and I really was going there for
mosfets..
I don't know what the big deal is, I go there with my wife frequently.

I found a nice Diamond Super-Gainer 7500 marked for $10, which is now
adorning the roof of my expedition, and a left-handed holster which I've
mounted on the driver's side of my radio console in the car.  Looking in the
window and seeing all those expensive radios might be pretty tempting, but
seeing that empty holster next to them, I suspect will have a pretty good
deterrent effect. I'm guessing that your first assumption would probably be
that the weapon was with the owner, who could return at any moment.

Saw the usual crop of interesting gizmos and whatsits, but with the
truncated time available, never made it inside other than a quick dash to
deposit my ticket in the barrel.

Met up with Ken of Arcom, and saw the new RC-810 repeater controller, filled
with AVRs of course. :)
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