[AMRadio] some items needed

[Brett Gazdzinski]

John,
150 receivers and transmitters is to many.

Unless you have a museum, how can you use all that?
How can you even get at all that?

I have seen guys in the past who had piles of stuff they
never used, like a friend who has two 32v3,s on the floor
in his basement...never used them, never will, and wont
consider selling them, even to a friend.
I doubt they work after years of sitting on the floor.
15 years at least, never been plugged in.
Meanwhile, there are loads of people looking for something
nice to get on with.

Chances are, a pipe will break, and they will get flooded
along with his basement.

I just sold a 32v1 a little while ago to a local ham friend, as I
already had two 32v3,s and he is a good guy.

I also gave the guy with the rusting 32v3,s his r388 back.
He wont sell it, he wont use it, so I was not going to
spend money for the 455khz crystal it needs, and the 100
kHz calibrator crystal needed to get it working well.
His basement has filled up, and the r388 went into the garage...

He is like a black hole of AM gear...it goes in, never comes out,
and is never seen or heard from again!


I just had a guy down the street pass away.
They took 3 LARGE dumpster loads of stuff out of his house,
plus piles on trash day.
Unfortunately, I did not pay close attention, as my
next door neighbor saved some stuff he thought
I would be interested in.
Seems the guy worked for RCA in Camden and had all sorts
of tube hi fi, vintage hi fi, radio equipment, test equipment,
books, diagrams, tubes, parts, broken electronics devices,
tools and so on.
It all went into the dumpster and to the land fill.

He had a smallish house, but it must have been packed into 
the basement, attic and garage.
I know he had the garage so packed he could not close the door
and had to put plastic over it.

What was he saving it for?

Brett
N2DTS 






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> From: amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of W4AWM at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] some items needed
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> When you discover the best way to move all that stuff, especially the 
> receivers, without getting them trashed, please let me know.  I am 
> contimplating an interstate move in the near future and while 
> I don't have 
> that nice BIG iron, I have about 150 receivers, xmtrs, 
> speakers and other 
> miscellany that I don't want to get messed up.
> 
> 
> 73,  
> 
> John,  W4AWM