[ARC5] After the last dance

[Michael Tauson]

I've been thinking a lot about what happens after the book is finished
and I want to reclaim my apartment space.  I could put all the radios
et al in storage but that doesn't seem a good way to go about things.
I could sell it off piecemeal but that also doesn't handle the whole
lot.

The best plan I've come up with is to donate the whole kit to the Ford
Island Museum to help equip the airplanes they're slowly getting ready
for display, either directly or by trade with other
institutions/individuals who are able to offer equipment they need.
It's a fairly new museum and doesn't have the resources the older more
established ones have so every little bit helps.

That was actually my second choice but the first is highly unlikely.
That choice would be to sell the equipment for a "fair market value"
(whatever that is!) with the proceeds going to Noelle to help with her
medical expenses.  I guess a 1-1/2 choice would be a compromise
between the two but I can't see how to manage that.

Part of the problem is the area of concentration.  Unlike most, who
tend to concentrate on wartime or prewar equipment, I'm expanding more
in the postwar period with a little wartime & prewar equipment
included for special cases and exemplars.  (This is only regarding the
equipment on hand, not the historic or reference material.  That may
well be quite the opposite.)  This, in turn, means a lot of Types 12 &
15 and later equipment which has historically not been of much
interest to anyone.

I still hope to locate an A.R.C. built/modified APR-9, an ARN-72(?)
and an ARC-39 (which, interestingly enough, fits the APR-9 rack &
mount, and more of which seem to have been built by Sunair than by
A.R.C.) with all the goodies that go with them along with other
equipment I may have missed along the way.  These also will need to
find homes afterward but not until I've had an opportunity to study,
set up and photograph them.

At least I have a while to figure all this out.  I hope.

Best regards,

Michael, WH7HG