Ended up being a nice day for a drive.  I finished building and installing the removable bracket for my mobile and had a chance to get acquainted with the FT8900 on the road.  I had been practicing scanning and changing the main without having to glance at the radio. 

I realized that I had made a noob mistake when I tried to check in to the hamfest station.  I didn’t have the pl tone to access the repeater.  I had been wondering if the tones created after a transmission were a function of the radio or repeater.  The silence after my attempted call answered the question.

This was the first hamfest I’ve attended as a ham.  It was a small fest relative to Findlay but I did find a few treasures: 

1$ plastic parts bins – can you ever have too many?

Alesis Micorverb – I want to add reverb to a amp that I build a while ago and I think this will do nicely.

PL-259s and some other antenna building supplies

A 3$ mag mount CB radio antenna in great shape.

 Treasure of the day is a “new in box” Radio Shack Electronic TV scoreboard!  I remember having a very similar console as a kid.  I cant wait to dust off an analog tv in the basement and see if it works. 

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