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From: N_Cook on 10 Jun 2010 09:38
Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> wrote in message
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> "N_Cook" <diverse(a)tcp.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Radio rallies no longer have "bring and buy" sections
>
> The Dover and Canvey Island rallies I've been to recently both did. (I
> now have all the 1960s transistors I could ever possibly want, among
> various other interesting junk!)
>
> --
> Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>


There never seems to be any midwinter carboot radio rallies in the south and
I looked into hiring a covered market site for a Sunday mid winter but
insurance was prohibitive. I asked an organiser of one of the best south
coast rallies Wimborne Flight Refuelling why no longer any bring and buy. He
said insurance was now required . About the same time Longleat bring and buy
stopped.


From: Winston on 10 Jun 2010 09:55
On 6/9/2010 11:02 PM, David Nebenzahl wrote:
> On 6/9/2010 10:44 PM Winston spake thus:
>
>> South San Francisco Bay Area
>
> AKA "South Bay"

For you and me, yes.

USENET is worldwide and there are lots
of "South Bay" areas that aren't ours.

http://www.southbaycities.org/node/257
http://www.southbaycity.com/Public_Documents/index
http://www.southbaytrail.com/

>> http://www.anchor-electronics.com/
>
> San Mateo still has a decent electronics outlet:
> http://www.sanmateoelectronicsca.com

Another opportunity. Thanks!

--Winston
From: Winston on 10 Jun 2010 09:59
On 6/9/2010 11:07 PM, David Nebenzahl wrote:
> On 6/9/2010 10:51 PM Winston spake thus:

(...)

>> I first visited them when their store was off Sterlin Rd.
>> in Mountain View. (Since renamed N. Shoreline Blvd.)
>
> Ackshooly, that's Stierlin Rd.

Yes, it was. Thanks!

--Winston <-- Used to work on Coffin Road
(renamed 'Bowers Avenue' for some reason).
From: Adrian C on 10 Jun 2010 10:42
On 10/06/2010 14:38, N_Cook wrote:
>
> There never seems to be any midwinter carboot radio rallies in the south and
> I looked into hiring a covered market site for a Sunday mid winter but
> insurance was prohibitive. I asked an organiser of one of the best south
> coast rallies Wimborne Flight Refuelling why no longer any bring and buy. He
> said insurance was now required . About the same time Longleat bring and buy
> stopped.
>

The main one I religiously visit each year is the Dunstable Downs Radio
Club car boot sale in Stockley Park, Luton. It happened last month but
keep a watch on this website for the next, 2011!
http://www.ddrcbootsale.org/

There is a new Rally, at the National Code Centre, Bletchley Park,
Milton Keynes on Sunday 29th August, that might be worth a visit.
http://www.mkars.org.uk/rally.html

--
Adrian C
From: N_Cook on 12 Jun 2010 06:00
Dave Plowman (News) <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5125214bb0dave(a)davenoise.co.uk...
> In article <no21169fgkkgkapamrretpik6fuhpdr9kf(a)4ax.com>,
> Peter Hill <peter.usenet1(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Can we blame it on the Internet, schools or the everything's too
> > dangerous to touch / no user serviceable parts mentality that's been
> > pushed for last 30-40 years?
>
> I've wondered about that. I asked a teacher at the local large school if
> they had an after school electronics construction club - we had at the
> school I went to.
> And the answer was no. Computer ones, though. It also seems odd to me that
> many computer whizz kids wouldn't know how to change a faulty hard drive
> on a desktop.
>
> I suppose when I was a kid you could save some money by building a radio
> etc. Not so now.
>
> --
> *I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out *
>
> Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW
> To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I mentioned local Forum Stores before, which closed ten or more years ago
leaving the kitting of school electronic projects and school talks/ great
egg race type events of the educational trust side of the Southern Science
& Technology Forum and now that seems to have expired about 2002.
I asked of the nearby to me the Itchen Valley ham radio club and they have a
young members section although nothing specific about it on their website.
Perhaps from a sample of 1 a number of such clubs still have a supervised
electronic/radio section for youngsters.

I will ask an electronics bod I know ,involved with school governers
locally, and see what he knows about hands-on electronics/ practical side of
CDT or whatever they call it now, in schools these days


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