Retro Tech UK 2024 Vintage Electronics Fair, Coventry
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Published 2024-06-01
After last year's visit, we were looking forward to another great event, and, it delivered. Around 150 stalls with quality gear at excellent prices. I came away with some great stuff and met up with like minded geeks.
See the end of this video to have a peek at this year's haul!
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The Retro Tech UK was formally called the National Vintage Communications Fair, (NVCF) established in 1992.
Links:
RetroTechUK
www.retrotechuk.com/
The British Vintage Wireless Society (BVWS)
www.bvws.org.uk/
All Comments (15)
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I was there this year, inspired after watching your video of the 2023 event. I drove a fair way to get there but arrived just in time for early entry and it was very busy and some good items to be had. Good to see it all again on this video.
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styropyro: You have NO IDEA how much of an inspiration you have been over the last 15 or so years! Don't worry about making videos , your audience will ALWAYS be here! Everyone all loves you and everything you've done!
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Very interesting to see it all again. Fantastic selection of stuff. Glad you got a good haul. I got some good stuff too, though rather different 😅. Thanks 👍 😀
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Very nice high quality, different large category well preserves electronics. prices seem good. here in the states, we have nice, restored stuff but lots of unrestored items that looks bad. certain 30 -40's art deco / 50's - early 60's collectible colors help. nice show, I'm going to look it up if I ever go to👍 UK for a visit. Thanks for the show. NYC
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I wish we had events like this in Melboure Victoria Australia. I saw some Leak amps and Pre-Amps I'd love to have.
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It appears that you were there rather earlier in the day than I was, like another commenting on this video, my presence at the event spurred on by your pair of videos from last year, as I'd not heard of it previously. If you drop by the 'Retro-spective' channel and their 'Later on in the day' video you'll see me (from the back!) plus a comment on what I picked up. The two ladies in the thumbnail for this video were the ones in charge of the stall where I got the ITT Weekend Automatic radio I mention at 'Retro-spective' and it's visible here at the 5:55 point. I was amazed to see in your haul from this year's Retro Tech UK an Ekco portable television set like one we had at our house for a while in childhood and it fascinated me as a seriously vintage item even back then, some half-a-century ago. Sadly, in subsequent decades, it became relegated to the garage at the top of the garden, like an awful lot of stuff did and only re-surfaced, minus its casing, in 2018, when we were clearing up both house and garden at my old place in preparation for a house-move, so it just ended up in the skip. I have a Flickr presence called 'The Curves Man', linked from my YouTube profile and there is an album there entitled "Found in old garage at 'Frith Knoll', Chevin Road, Belper (Spring/Summer 2018)". Unfortunately, that Ekco set isn't there but there's a whole load of other incredible stuff we turned up, including an advertisement from an 'Exchange & Mart' magazine from 1969 that helped me identify a vintage Taymar Trident 593 camping stove we also turned up in the orchard, which I used for a few days before it was scrapped, a pair of newspapers from 1969 and 1970, both with articles about Czechoslovakia, in the latter case on the subject of the Bratislavská Lýra festival of that year, where Marcela Laiferová - whom I have met after a concert by her in Petržalka, Bratislava - won the Gold Lyre, my blogging about the music from that period and part of the world at 'Girls Of The Golden East' and 'Hotlips On The Horse Tram', plus a feature in my local newspaper on a Czech Glass Fortnight in 1966 in my home city of Derby and, as an aficionado of something like retro electronics, I'm sure you'd love the pile of old 'New Scientist' magazines, my late father being a General Science teacher. That Taymar Trident 593 can be seen in action at my channel, if you're interested in a bit of cooking and coffee percolation with a vintage stove.
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An interesting video, thanks. I need to go to an event like that as I have a load of stuff that's taking up too much room. However, I'm an ex-pat Brit living in southern France and would have to beg, steal or borrow a van to bring it over there. Of course, I'd make no profit, but I'd rather someone take it for a reasonable sum than dump it. The French don't seem all that interested in that kind of equipment. Cheers!
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I miss going to these shows, the local ones stopped and never restarted after the lockdowns. They are a great place to find parts that are not available online these days.
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Radios fantástico.
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I think ugly crazy junk is cool...👍 maybe most is not what I want, but I do see interesting things.
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O preço mais ou menos de um rádio valvulado desse ai e quanto
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Tell me I shouldn't be concerned.
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Why are there no young people ?
