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Rules

Spirit of the Auction

This auction is a chance for the New River Valley Amateur Radio Club to get funds while passing along excess club equipment to club members. We hope for a win-win situation between club and individual members and want to have fun doing so. Please be respectful to the event and its intent to enhance our hobby! If you have any questions (and have read all the rules), please contact .

Item Conditions

All items for auction are sold as-is, with no warrantee given or implied. These are used items with some age on them. If any issues were found, they are noted in the listing.

Eligibility to Bid

Only NRVARC Club members in good standing are eligible for bid. If you are a member and have yet to pay your 2023 dues, you can do so online at https://www.n4nrv.org/2023-membership-application-renewals/ before bidding. You must follow the instructions for the auction to submit a valid bid.

How to Bid

Bids will be taken via email to . Please use a subject of “Bidding on – Item Name”. Include the bid amount, your name/callsign in the message. I will reference the current club roster for each bidder.

Bids shall be in whole dollar amounts. No sense in dealing in cents. Also, keep in mind that the updates will only be daily, so you may not know who else bid against you. If a bid is received of the same amount for the same item, the first received bid will be upheld.

Updates for the bidding scoreboard (at the bottom of this page) will be posted at least daily after 8pm with the amount, and call sign of the current high bid.

Bidding will start March 1^st, 2023,  and end at 11:59PM EST on March 15^th, 2023. Winners will be posted, and notified via email on March 16^th, 2023. Payments will be made to the club treasurer within 5 days of notification of winning, and plans will be made for you to receive the item. We will not ship the items.

Items For Bid

HF Rig Package

Yaesu FT-840 HF Transceiver – Serial number 3K030482

Yaesu FC-10 Full Automatic Antenna Tuner

Yaesu Hand Mic, Power Cable, Coax Jumper, and control cable to connect tuner

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/2319spec.html

Operation seems to be fine. S-Meter light may be out. Full output on all bands. Picture with Bird meter shows 50 watt slug, with X2 multiplier on transmit, indicating 100 watts.

Dual Band Mobile

Kenwood TM-D700A – Serial number 50700133

Hand Mic, Power Cable, Interface Cables for remote head, mounting brackets.

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/fm_txvrs/4116spec.html

Operation seems to be fine. Cooling fan is noisy.

Go-Box Package

Alinco DR-635T – Serial Number M001189

Hand Mic, Power Cord, Car Power Adapter (cigarette lighter plug), Mounting Bracket, Manual, Ammo Can, and Jetstream Mobile Mag Mount Antenna.

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/fm_txvrs/2635spec.html

Everything you need to get on the air for mobile operations.

Operation seems to be fine.

Winlink Package

Alinco DR-110T – Serial Number 0009748

Hand Mic, Custom Power Cord (powers TNC as well), Mounting Bracket, MFJ Microphone Switch (MFJ-1272BYV), Kantronics PacketCommunicator 3 Plus (TNC), Serial to USB adapter, all the cords to interface the radio/switchbox/TNC, and Jetstream Mobile Mag Mount Antenna.

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/fm_txvrs/dr110ts.html

This package should allow you to get on Winlink by only adding a power supply and a somewhat modern windows computer. A test message using this equipment (sans included mag mount antenna) was sent via Winlink through the Cloyd’s Mountain node on 2/28/2023.

This radio has recently been recapped, and seems to be working as expected.

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