where to obtain cheap electronics

[steve ravet]

mattz at pond.com wrote:

> The best place to obtain cheap electronic parts is to contact your local
> ham radio club ..
> I go to the local ham festavals at leasat 2x a year.. I bought a dual trace
> scope for $20.00 (50mhz)
> several powersupplies by the pound (yea they are ugly and old but for the
> $$ you cant touch it)
> They had a "free" pile there also, you put something that looked good and
> you got to take something out..
> I dumped some old junk rf generators and picked a signal tracer and some
> other crap..

I know there are some people here from Austin...  What's the closest
place to find one of these hamfests?  I know there's a second saturday
thing in Dallas, but what about here?

--steve

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Steve Ravet
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