Steve:

Are you interested in an R7 project? I have one that is pretty good cosmetically, comes with the filters it originally came with, no noise blanker,

It is disassembled. The PTO is rebuilt, I will need to find it.

All boards are there, most tested in a working R7. However, two power supply boards are suspect and the DR7 I have is best described as a parts unit.

This will never a project but I simply do not have the time to put into it.

Gary

W0DVN

> On Mar 25, 2024, at 2:32?PM, Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 via <w1es=[email protected]> wrote:
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> I should mention that the TR7 I sold was off QRZ.? No commission, I could use my choice in shipping and payment.? Yeah, I love it when you can sell at a profit with low overhead.
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> Basically, I enjoy fixing these things, playing with them for awhile, finding better ones and selling the previous one.? I've been able to make enough to keep my hobby self-supporting.? I currently also have three Drake sets and a power supply on my "on-deck" circle that belong to other hams who pay me to work on them.
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> Besides the TR7A with PS7 and 7077, my Drake stable has all three major sets of Twins, a TR-4Cw RIT, TR-6, 2-B, 1-A, an extra T-4XB and an L7.? I acquire them as I go along and lots of my ham friends know that I'm "into" Drake stuff and they send info along.
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> Besides the Drake gear, I have a Collins S Line with amp, a TS-830S and a TenTec Omni VI with the Plus added on.? This group of gear came to me with an Omni V, another R-4A and a second 75S-3B and I got the whole pile, as-is, for $400.? I made more than that back when I fixed and sold the extra 75S-3B.? Then fixed and sold the R-4A and diagnosed the Omni V and sold it, as is, to a happy buyer.? Not that it matters but I still live in the same house and still drive the same 2015 car.
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> Time flies like an arrow.? Fruit flies like a banana.
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> On Monday, March 25th, 2024 at 3:11 PM, Jim Shorney <jimNU0C@...> wrote:
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>> An old salesman once said "don't charge a fair price, charge what the market will bear". If someone wants to spend that kind of money on a 1-A, that's fine. If no one bites the price will be reduced.
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>> I have gotten most of my good deals locally and some are almost legendary. Minty one owner R7A for $450, gently used L4B offered to me for $450 by a local who knew that I like Drake, an estate purchase of a TR7 station that netted me an L7 for about $150 after I cleaned the rest up and re-sold it to another local. Picked up a lonely PS7 for $75 at a fest a couple years ago so now I have one for each of my TR7s. Another local who likes to deal in used radios offered me a nice NC300 for 40 bucks just because he wanted to get it gone. A list member sold me an R7 a few years back for $300 because no one else was interested. One of my TR7s also from a list member for $150 as a fixer-upper. I won't even mention my deal of the century on the pair of Alphas....
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>> Ebay? What's that? :D
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>> 73
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>> -Jim
>> NU0C
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>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:41:35 +0000
>> "Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 via " w1es=[email protected] wrote:
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>>> Why does it bother people when someone knows how to market something and makes a good profit? I don’t understand the mindset.
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>>> Having said that, such deals come up, even at hamfests. My first TR7 came from Shelby in 2019, for $350 and included a PS7 and the matching mic. Also an AUX-7 And fully-stuffed filter board. I was expecting to have to do some work on it but it fired right up and worked great!
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>>> I still have the filter board in my TR7A (I swapped because I liked the selection better) and am using the PS7 and mic. Oh — and (Grumble! Grumble!) sold the TR7 for $550. It was in really nice shape and was worth that price.
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>>> 73,
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>>> Steve Wedge, W1ES/4
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>>> Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 13:56, Lyndon VE7TFX <[lyndon@...](mailto:On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 13:56, Lyndon VE7TFX <<a href=)> wrote:
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>>>> Rick W4XA writes:
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>>>>> The down-side of it is, we'll spend pretty good money to get cool vintage s=
>>>>> tuff and when it's all over, if someone doesn't jump in and help to sell th=
>>>>> e "stuff" our "non-ham" kids will either "give" it away or haul it to a lan=
>>>>> dfill!
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>>>> Case in point: two weeks ago I landed a TR-7, PS-7, MS-7, and a
>>>> Drake desk might of unknown model number for CAD$250. That's about
>>>> $195 in real money.
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>>>> How did this happen? The back story: the fellow I bought it from
>>>> didn't want it because it was too big for his desk and he preferred
>>>> his smaller more modern rig. He obviously did not know what he
>>>> had, and just wanted to get rid of it.
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>>>> He bought it from the BCIT radio club (British Columbia Institute
>>>> of Technology). My guess is that the club shut down for a couple
>>>> of years because virus. When the new crop of 20-somethings arrived,
>>>> they likely looked at the radio and said "no SDR -- eeewww! no
>>>> touchscreen -- eewww! old -- eewww!!!" and sold it very cheap as
>>>> an old boat anchor. It had obviously been sitting on the shelf for
>>>> a long while. I had to have at it with the deoxit on the band
>>>> switch, the PBT switch, and the RV-7 connector to get it functioning
>>>> again. I still need to strip it down and give it a complete
>>>> scrubbing. But I got a complete working TR-7 (loaded with filters)
>>>> for a song.
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>>>> They don't all wind up in the landfill :-) And sometimes I have
>>>> no qualms about taking advantage of people's lack of knowledge of
>>>> history.
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>>>> At least it didn't go to an eBuy grifter who would immediately try
>>>> to resell it for $1200.
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>>>> And yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to rewrite my will so
>>>> that my stack of gear doesn't end up on eBuy ... (or in the landfill)
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>>>> --lyndon
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>> 73
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>> -Jim
>> NU0C
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM, Jim Shorney wrote:

An old salesman once said "don't charge a fair price, charge what the market will bear". If someone wants to spend that kind of money

I just sold three vacuum tubes (old Western Electric) that I had found in one of the boxes of random pulls and NOS that I bought? 20+ yrs ago and never opened. They'd been lying on the garage floor since last November when I ran across them and I thought I should toss them on the 'Bay before I forgot about them for another 3 months.

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The three sold quickly enough to pay for half the cost of a new FTDX101D I now have on order.? :-)

John K5MO