A decent night's rest gave me the gumption to tackle another day at hamvention. I started by pillaging the NTE rack in the liquidation guy's tent and came away with some real prizes, mostly RF power transistors, MOSFETs, and precision op amps. I couldn't believe that no one else had figured out what was on those racks after two days.
Then I found a dude who had twenty parts cabinets from an estate purchase and wanted a buck a drawer. I looted them for ferrite beads, transistors, solid state relays, and more electrolytics. The prize, however, was a box of very nicely designed 50W VHF and UHF linear amplifier boards, each built around a MRF641 or MRF646. I bought a few, and left the rest, figuring I'd let someone else enjoy that
WTF are these? moment.
And, of course, there was a TEA opportunity:
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The Klein MM2000 and MM500, brand new, for $25 total. Because,
you can never have too many DMMs! I am now back at the FDIM hotel, sorting stuff out, packing up a couple of flat rate boxes, and feeling fat, dumb, and happy even though I didn't purchase a signal piece of Tek or HP gear.