MAARC's RadioFallFest is coming up !
This year, MAARC is inviting our Ham Radio Enthusiast friends to make a
combined
Antique Radio Meet and Vintage Ham Fest!
So lots of flea 'maarc' - eters, and a big auction, too!
Admission and Set-up are FREE
Food: There will be food available (order in the morning, delivered by lunch time). Details provided at the Meet. Or bring your own. Soft drinks will be available for purchase as well.
MAARC your calendar!
A Note to our Ham Fest Brethren:
In keeping with the spirit of a vintage Ham Fest, please no modern ham gear or computer equipment! Vintage tube and transistor commo gear, military surplus, vintage audio, tubes, and vintage parts and test gear welcome. Modern restoration supplies, parts, and equipment are okay. Otherwise, strictly old school.
Auction Notice: Promises to be large!
We are expecting consignments, from at least two collection "down-sizing" efforts.
Featuring dozens of tube radios and some transistor sets, some Military Radios,
test equipment, and many boxes of parts and tubes.
On top of that, the Radio History Society will be consigning a large array of surplus donations
it has recieved.
This should be a very nice auction this year. Updates will be posted here when available.
Here are MAARC's auction policies (in .pdf format, requires Adobe® reader software).
Partial Listing of Collection Liquidation Offerings:
Atwater Kent 33
Bendix Model 526B
Crosley 56TV
Crosley Model JC8TN
Crosley ? 1930's plastic w/push buttons
Delco F105
Dewald A502 catalin (restored, fairly good cond.)
Emerson 559AA
Firestone Clock Radio 4-A-92
Firestone S7425-6
Granco 704
GE T-210
GE Model 60
General Electric TV 9T001
GE Windsor 42937
GE 826
Halicrafter S-38C
Layfayette Aircraft Receiver HA520
Layfayette 52 Superhetrodyne
Lloyd's radio ?
Mitchell 1264
Montgomery Ward 62-173
Motorola 6X
Philco 37-640 tombstone (restored, was working)
Philco 46-200
Philco 52-548
Philco Model 80
Philco 50677
RCA Radiola V
RCA portable Model B-X-57
RCA Victor Model 9-X-561
RCA Victor radio-record player Model 9-Y-510
RCA Victor Model 0-R-91
RCA Model 14-10
RCA Victor Model 2-XF933
RCA Victor Model 730
RCA Victor Model 2X61
RCA Victor 65U
RCA Victor 96T
RCA Victor 46X13
RCA Victor U12
RCA Victor 6-RF-9
RCA Victor 15X11
RCA Victor 6X7
RCA Victor 1950's ?
RCA Victor 8X541
RCA Victor 4-C-541
RCA Victor 9W21A
RCA Victor clock radio 2C512
SCR-578
Stewart Warner PORTABAR Radio
Truetone DC2170
Westinghouse Aerola Sr. "Type RF, style 319564"
Zenith 7504
Zenith U186038
Zenith ? plastic case
Plus Military Surplus:
BC-375 Transmitter w/tuning units
ARC-5 Equipment (late WWII/early Korean War era)
dynamotors
aircraft radios
Navy transmitter/receiver
Emergency Transmitter "Gibson Girl" SCR578.
Plus some speakers.
Plus boxes of test equipment, Heathkit, Precise, Hickok, Knight, Hewlett Packard, etc.,etc.
Plus boxes of tubes, all types from 01A's to multipin. Majority however are octal, then 4 and 5 pin, then approx 30% miniatures. Hundreds of tubes, maybe over a thousand.
Plus boxes of parts, and boxes and boxes of radio "stuff" or "junk"!
Hotels near DFRC
The Davidsonville Family Rec Center is located in a surprisingly rural setting considering it's proximity to Washington, DC. As such there are no hotels in the immediate vicinity. However, there are many hotels within an easy 10 to 20 minute drive, offering a wide range of room rates, all of which would make adaquate staging facilities for attending this one day meet.
Some of the closest hotels are listed below. If these do not met your needs, concentrate your hotel web searches using Annapolis, MD or Bowie, Md as your destination.
Bowie, Maryland
Comfort Inn
4500 Crain Hwy. (301) 464-0084
Hampton Inn
15202 Major Lansdale Blvd. (301) 809-1800
TownPlace Suites
3700 Town center Blvd. (301) 262-8045
Annapolis, Maryland
Country Inn and Suites
2600 Housley Rd. (410) 571-6700
Hampton Inn
124 Womack Dr. (410) 571-0200
Marriott Residence Inn
170 Admiral Cochrane Dr. (410) 573-0300
Super 8
74 Old Mill Bottom Rd. (Hwy. 50 exit 28) (410) 757-2222