Duntable Downs Electronics boot sale, Luton UK, Sun Jun 30th - Page 1
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author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2024, 07:01:02 pm
content: A bit later in the year than usualhttp://www.ddrcbootsale.org/I'll be there selling & giving away variousjunktreasure

author: billtodd
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2024, 07:34:42 pm
content: Wish I had a bit more notice. I'd have load the car withcrapvaluable electric stuff.Radio rallies seemed to have faded out in Essex /Suffolk area:-//Bill

author: artag
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2024, 08:14:18 pm
content: I'm looking forward to taking home some valuable electric stuff.But I'll settle for crap

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2024, 08:23:11 pm
content: Quote from: billtodd on June 29, 2024, 07:34:42 pmThey are fading everywhere, like the denizens who frequent them. Fleabay doesn't help, eitther.It seems certain that one of my favourites, Harwell/Didcot won't be resurrectedNot always the soonest to have the information, but it is a useful single point of contact:https://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2024, 11:09:57 pm
content: QuoteNot so much fading as long gone.At least in the South, IMO DDRC has been the only one remotely worth going to for the last decade or so.Lots of other factors - new electronics & testgear getting so much cheaper, decline of ham radio, less UK manufacturing (company clear-outs/surplus stock etc.)I remember the days of coming home from DDRC with a car pretty much full of really good stuff, now it's the other way round - I take a car-full & (hopefully) come back empty!

author: artag
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2024, 03:21:09 pm
content: Seemed pretty good today, with better quality goods than in some previous years (at least for my interests, mostly test equipment and random explorations). The guy who sells batteries said he'd had a better day at Newbury last week. McMichael at Reading is in a couple of weeks and I've enjoyed that in the past - but it does seem to be the smaller ones that are shrinking faster. Cambridge is nothing like it once was.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2024, 03:55:43 pm
content: Not bad, but went home with more than I'd hoped - literally couldn't give some stuff away!

author: Hydron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2024, 06:04:42 pm
content: Ah damn, didn't realise it had shifted dates, would have popped along today otherwise, I now even have direct train service from South LondonMaybe could have helped Mike get rid of some stuff, though I really should get my shed/workshop built first.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2024, 08:18:14 pm
content: I was disappointed today: little interesting stuff to buy, and too many punters looked at the crap on the floor rather than the treasures in the table.I don't know whether that was because it was a month later this year.As for other hamfests, I prefer FRARS, Newbury, Rugby, and a couple of small local rallies.

author: Zenith
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2024, 08:41:39 am
content: In my view, obviously influenced by what I was looking for, mainly repairable TE, rather a disappointment and nowhere near as good as last year, which was excellent. Newbury last week was much better.It may have been influenced by changing the date from late May to late June.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2024, 08:43:50 am
content: You did well with that tray of components, and another denizen scoredhttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg5559025/#msg5559025I "scored" at TNMoC, having a great chat about N-path filters and how 2/3 input and/or/not/nand/nor/... gates can be implemented with only two transistors. I'm tempted to spice simulate that circuit.