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The 47-year tradition of the SF Bay Area's monthly electronics swap meet (the ASVARO event) is back! Spread the word...
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Electronics Flea Market (EFM) - Saturday April 9, 2022 at the Sunnyvale Public Library
The Electronics Flea Market () is scheduled for April 9, 2022 in the parking lot of the Sunnyvale Public Library in Sunnyvale from 5:00 AM 'til noon.
The Electronics Flea Market () <> takes place in the northwest parking lot at:
Sunnyvale Public Library
665 West Olive Avenue,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086).
Free parking and free admission for buyers!
Post an announcement to your mailing lists to remind your members to participate.
Sunrise is 6:42am PDT. Cool in the early morning, but getting warm
by noon. Bring warm clothing and a hat/sunscreen.
We hope to see you all there. Please pass along this email your your friends so they can be a part of this over 47 year old activity. Bring your friends with you. This EFM is held in the northwest parking lot at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Sellers and buyers should enter the library parking lot from Olive Avenue. Sellers enter on the east side of the library on Charles Street. Buyers park (for _*free*_) in any legal parking space outside the vendor area. Check the map and directions on the web site ().
Join ASVARO and follow the Electronics Flea Market on our ASVARO
Facebook page <>. Please
visit and give us a like.
Your host and beneficiary for the market is *West Valley Amateur Radio Association**(WVARA**)*.**More information and directions may be found at the Electronics Flea Market web site at .
We have received a permit from the City of Sunnyvale to use the library parking lot for the 2022 Electronics Flea Market season. Visit the library while you are there and please leave the area clean. Don't leave unsold (free) items when you leave.
We remind attendees that *NO* eWaste is to be disposed in the trash
or left at the Electronics Flea Market site. Please visit
for information on what
constitutes eWaste and how to recycle it.
Please take your cardboard with you when you leave. We simply cannot
deal with more a small amount of cardboard. Most communities in the
bay area offer cardboard recycling at the curbside as part of your
garbage service. Do not leave it at the flea market.
We appreciate your help in leaving the flea market site as clean as
you found it. Please put trash and recyclables into the provided
containers on site, or dispose of it at home.
August 2018 EFM
These flea markets are organized by ASVARO (Association of Silicon Valley Amateur Radio Organizations ) as a fund raising activity for local amateur radio organizations.
Vendors pay $50 for a 2-space pair of consecutive parking spaces. The fee is collected upon entry. There are also 1-space spots are priced at $30. You may lease multiples of? 1-space and 2-space spots. Please let the gate volunteer know your requirements. Each seller needs to bring a completed form CDTFA, since it's been two years, since our last flea market. Check the seller tab on he web site for details. We have blank forms on site for those who need them.
Buyers enter the market and park for free. There is also some street parking available in the area. Please respect the residential areas nearby.
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Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR
kyrrin@...
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)
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Thanks!? I was thinking about looking it up as I drove past Fry's the other day, but forgot.??
-Dave (also in Sunnyvale)
On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 06:15:15 PM PDT, Bruce Lane <kyrrin@...> wrote:
??? The 47-year tradition of the SF Bay Area's monthly electronics swap
meet (the ASVARO event) is back! Spread the word...
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Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is).
Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the
US ?
Wilko
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Wilco I think all of my California surplus business cards are bad. Weirdstuff?went out of business maybe 5-7 years ago. That leaves only 2 companies left and by now maybe none. You seem to have on occasion run across fantastic deals. Enjoy Paul WB8TSL
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On 3/17/22 14:56, Wilko Bulte wrote: Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is).
Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the
US ? It's nowhere near as great as it used to be; the suits have wrecked that too. Gone are the glorious DRMO (Dept. of Defense) surplus auctions, gone are nearly all of the great surplus stores. After all, precious snowflake little Jimmy might cut his finger on something and the company would get sued out of existence! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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In the immortal words of Metallica, "sad but true".
Jim Ford?
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On 3/17/22 14:56, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is). > > Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the > US ? ?? It's nowhere near as great as it used to be; the suits have wrecked that too.? Gone are the glorious DRMO (Dept. of Defense) surplus auctions, gone are nearly all of the great surplus stores.? After all, precious snowflake little Jimmy might cut his finger on something and the company would get sued out of existence! ?????????????? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Excess Solutions in San Jose may still exist; they ‘inherited’ some/much of the stuff from Wierdstuff and HSC.?
Jeremy? N6WFO
Wilco I think all of my California surplus business cards are bad. Weirdstuff?went out of business maybe 5-7 years ago. That leaves only 2 companies left and by now maybe none. You seem to have on occasion run across fantastic deals. Enjoy Paul WB8TSL _._,_._,
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Oh yeah.. the local folklore in the US of sueing everything and the kitchen sink never ceases to amaze ? Also "suits", worn by lawyers in this case, and >> $1000 per suit. MBA are cheapskates in comparison ?
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Any known good surplus outlets, recycled/retired instrumentation outlets, swap meets, ham shows, flea markets, etc, in SoCal vs northern side of the state?...
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 1:32 PM Wilko Bulte < wkb@...> wrote: Oh yeah.. the local folklore in the US of sueing everything and the kitchen sink never ceases to amaze ? Also "suits", worn by lawyers in this case, and >> $1000 per suit. MBA are cheapskates in comparison ?
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TRW swap meet.? Used to be IIRC every 2nd Saturday of the month. Of course, TRW used to be TRW? too; now it's Northrop-Grumman Space Technology.? At the corner of Marine and Aviation in Redondo Beach.? I haven't been for many years, though.? I'll ask around.
Jim Ford?
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Any known good surplus outlets, recycled/retired instrumentation outlets, swap meets, ham shows, flea markets, etc, in SoCal vs northern side of the state?... On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 1:32 PM Wilko Bulte < wkb@...> wrote: Oh yeah.. the local folklore in the US of sueing everything and the kitchen sink never ceases to amaze ? Also "suits", worn by lawyers in this case, and >> $1000 per suit. MBA are cheapskates in comparison ?
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NO, Uncle Sam's suits implemented ITAR and rather than trying to have bureaucrats figure out what was covered and what wasn't, they just destroy all of it.
Tom, N8ZM
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave McGuire Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns! On 3/17/22 14:56, Wilko Bulte wrote: Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is).
Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the
US ? It's nowhere near as great as it used to be; the suits have wrecked that too. Gone are the glorious DRMO (Dept. of Defense) surplus auctions, gone are nearly all of the great surplus stores. After all, precious snowflake little Jimmy might cut his finger on something and the company would get sued out of existence! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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On 3/17/22 17:00, Radu Bogdan Dicher wrote: Any known good surplus outlets, recycled/retired instrumentation outlets, swap meets, ham shows, flea markets, etc, in SoCal vs northern side of the state?... I can't speak to anything in California, but there's an annual hamfest about 45mins north of Pittsburgh ("Breezeshooters") that is still amazingly good. Quite a bit of good HP stuff turns up there too, to at least try to bring this on-topic. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Paul-
I think the only two I know in Calif. are Excess Solutions in
San Jose area and Apex in So Calif. ( is it San Fernando
Valley?), I love Apex! it has been 2 or 3 years since I visited
either.
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On 3/17/22 12:58 PM, paulswed wrote:
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Wilco
I think all of my
California surplus business cards are bad. Weirdstuff?went out
of business maybe 5-7 years ago. That leaves only 2 companies
left and by now maybe none.
You seem to have on
occasion run across fantastic deals.
Enjoy
Paul
WB8TSL
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:08 PM, 搁别苍é别 wrote:
Paul-
I think the only two I know in Calif. are Excess Solutions in San Jose area and Apex in So Calif. ( is it San Fernando Valley?), I love Apex! it has been 2 or 3 years since I visited either.
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--- Excess Solutions moved to a new location down the same street but it is still around. Anchor electronics in Santa Clara has some used equipment in addition to a good selection of new and NOS components. They have a small, well organized store. Unfortunately both Halted and Weird Stuff (and Fry's !) long gone.? Ozan
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Hey you still have Frys?!?? Here in Austin tx ours is long gone..
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 8:23 PM Dave Seiter < d.seiter@...> wrote:
Thanks!? I was thinking about looking it up as I drove past Fry's the other day, but forgot.??
-Dave (also in Sunnyvale)
On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 06:15:15 PM PDT, Bruce Lane < kyrrin@...> wrote:
??? The 47-year tradition of the SF Bay Area's monthly electronics swap
meet (the ASVARO event) is back! Spread the word...
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Frys is gone, liquidated completely everywhere.
Dead 2 years most everywhere with no stock in the store prior to that.
Sorry
Jim
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On 3/17/2022 4:11 PM, Tom Phillips wrote: Hey you still have Frys?!?? Here in Austin tx ours is long gone..
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Annoying- just because a garden variety scope set up was used as part of a test procedure for some fighter in the 70's, it's "controlled".? I got two notices in the late 2000s for Tek auction items that fell into that category (from Govbid, I think).? Fortunately, both had been scrapped due to breakage/abuse.
-Dave
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 02:27:06 PM PDT, <n8zmtwh@...> wrote:
NO, Uncle Sam's suits implemented ITAR and rather than trying to have bureaucrats figure out what was covered and what wasn't, they just destroy all of it.
Tom, N8ZM
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave McGuire Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns! On 3/17/22 14:56, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is). > > Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the > US ? ? It's nowhere near as great as it used to be; the suits have wrecked that too.? Gone are the glorious DRMO (Dept. of Defense) surplus auctions, gone are nearly all of the great surplus stores.? After all, precious snowflake little Jimmy might cut his finger on something and the company would get sued out of existence! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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I don't miss Fry's; for computer items they were ok, but every time I went looking for components, they never had what I wanted, or what they had was seriously overpriced.
-Dave
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:20:33 PM PDT, Ozan <ozan_g@...> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:08 PM, 搁别苍é别 wrote:
Paul-
I think the only two I know in Calif. are Excess Solutions in San Jose area and Apex in So Calif. ( is it San Fernando Valley?), I love Apex! it has been 2 or 3 years since I visited either.
搁别苍é别
--- Excess Solutions moved to a new location down the same street but it is still around. Anchor electronics in Santa Clara has some used equipment in addition to a good selection of new and NOS components. They have a small, well organized store. Unfortunately both Halted and Weird Stuff (and Fry's !) long gone.? Ozan
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We had one in dallas when I moved back in 96 I hated the store with a passion ,? they hardly ever had the items they advertised in the sale flyer and tried to upsell you , they were ok on tools and soldering stuff and some components but
I rather took the drive over to tanner
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]>
On Behalf Of Dave Seiter via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
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I don't miss Fry's; for computer items they were ok, but every time I went looking for components, they never had what I wanted, or what they had was seriously overpriced.
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:20:33 PM PDT, Ozan <ozan_g@...> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:08 PM, 搁别苍é别 wrote:
Paul-
I think the only two I know in Calif. are Excess Solutions in San Jose area and Apex in So Calif. ( is it San Fernando Valley?), I love Apex! it has been 2 or 3 years since I visited either.
搁别苍é别
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Excess Solutions moved to a new location down the same street but it is still around. Anchor electronics in Santa Clara has some used equipment in addition to a good selection of new and NOS components. They have a small, well organized store. Unfortunately
both Halted and Weird Stuff (and Fry's !) long gone.?
Ozan
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Gone are the days of DRMOs and surplus stores ….. yeah I hear dave on that one but lets face it the entire ham /hobby scene has been changing ,? back when I started with electronics at 15 years of age a lot of folks were tinkering with
electronics both hams and no hams , we had a company named Conrad Elektronik who sold surplus US Army radios by the pound and they always had a good crowd , helmut singer in Aachen also made good bucks selling all kinds of surplus mostly from US and French
armed forces as well as surplus stuff from universities and defense companies and in munich there was a 3 mile stretch going from the main train station to the city center that had tons of surplus stores selling surplus acquired from siemens , rohde and Messerschmitt
all located in or around munich !
Nowadays things are different , good luck trying to get kids interested in electronics or ham radio they rather spend time on social media , the few hams that still tinker and build stuff are either working in the industry or are in their
late 40s and up so the demand is not there anymore ,? meanwhile ebay and the internet has opened a new much easier sales channel , where companies used to sell their surplus to local dealers they now resort to online auctions and the employees who got their
hands on stuff by the way of employee sales to sell it at hamfests are now just putting stuff on ebay , its faster and more convenient !
Beside of the fact that new microwave parts have gotten cheaper every year too so the ones who still tinker just buy new parts
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]>
On Behalf Of Dave Seiter via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
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Annoying- just because a garden variety scope set up was used as part of a test procedure for some fighter in the 70's, it's "controlled".? I got two notices in the late
2000s for Tek auction items that fell into that category (from Govbid, I think).? Fortunately, both had been scrapped due to breakage/abuse.
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 02:27:06 PM PDT, <n8zmtwh@...> wrote:
NO, Uncle Sam's suits implemented ITAR and rather than trying to have bureaucrats figure out what was covered and what wasn't,
they just destroy all of it.
Tom, N8ZM
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave
McGuire
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
On 3/17/22 14:56, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Blast.. I am envious! So much nice stuff for sale over in the US of A... And for a song, compared to what we can get over here (in NL that is).
>
> Still have the fluorescent orange business card from Weird Stuff, from when I first visited the
> US ?
? It's nowhere near as great as it used to be; the suits have wrecked
that too.? Gone are the glorious DRMO (Dept. of Defense) surplus
auctions, gone are nearly all of the great surplus stores.? After all,
precious snowflake little Jimmy might cut his finger on something and
the company would get sued out of existence!
? ? ? ? ? ? ? -Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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Bruce Lane
Dave McGuire
Jeremy Nichols