I couldn't miss a second visit to the largest ham fair in Europe, so
there I went last Friday. My main interest was the flea market, and
that's where I spent almost 8 hours. My feeling is that there were
fewer people and less sellers than 2015 edition, but last year I spent
two days and I might remember the Saturday crowd instead.
I was looking mainly for old display technologies, and it wasn't that bad.
I bought:
- IV-27M VFD (5 EUR)
- IV-22 VFD (2 EUR each)
- a board with 4xZM1000 and 1xZM1001 from Philips PM2421 (10 EUR) ... this is as old as I am!
- B5092 and alike sockets (50c each)
- two nice shaped valves (1 EUR each)
What I haven't bought:
- red-coated top-view DDR Nixies (used starting at 3 EUR, new up to 10 EUR)
- the case around the Philips board
- another Philips board with case (26 EUR)
- a 20 GHz frequency counter with Nixies, working (280 EUR)
- a DVM with 4-digit Nixie display (70 EUR, fair)
- another frequency couner with Nixies the person at the table couldn't find out the price
- a desk microphone from 50's, nice design (5 EUR)
- a desk clock-radio with a flip clock (obviously missing one palette)
What I haven't found:
- early days spare LED displays (late 70's)
Now it is time to test my purchases. IV-27M will go first, then find
out about the nice shaped valves and power up the board with ZM tubes.
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| View from a corner of A1, new stuff. |
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| Almost a panoramic view of A4, |
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| from the rear end of the hall. |
3 comments:
Ciao Paolo,
good to hear that you were successful in Friedrichshafen. They often have Nixies and VFDs there, but there is a lot of junk too. I found though that it is more interesting to visit smaller markets as the prices are much more attractive.
I recently scored a nice old Nixie radio at an SK sale http://www.shortwaveradio.ch/radio-d/telefunken-e863.htm which would have otherwise been thrown away (could not let that happen).
73 Jan DK3LJ
Hello Jan. I will write about my success and failure at FN2016 in the next posts. I regularly visit the local flea market in ARI Torino but not found good bargains so far. Is there a list of German local HAM markets? I happen to travel to Munich and Berlin for work (Mauerpark flohmarkt was great but not HAM oriented, HI), so I might catch one of those.
See you at FN2017?
73, Paolo ZYW
Hello Paolo,
ON4LEA does a miraculous job of collecting all the be/ne/lux and german markets. Take a look at this here http://www.on4lea.be/termine.htm
I went to one of the Belgian markets and was very delighted. Also nice is the UKW Tagung in Weinheim later in fall which has very good lectures too. I visit most of the markets in the Frankfurt area which are around 10 per year. Let me know if you need anything specific, I can keep an eye open.
73 Jan DK3LJ
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