[ARC5] OT: Neighborhood Watch

[Laura and Jim]

Michael - Looks like the neighborhood watched as you were ripped off.
:=(

Jim
K6FWT
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>   1. On Theft (Michael Tauson)
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> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:32:20 -1000
> From: Michael Tauson <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ARC5] On Theft
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> This is on topic since I know some of those here present have
> experienced loss in this way.
> 
> As mentioned in my previous two posts in boatanchors (both of them)
> about the need for a Swan transformer and a Viking PA tuning unit,
> four boxes were stolen from my apartment, three with electronics and
> one of wood samples ? along with a bottle of Tylenol which I?m sure
> will be needed once it?s discovered the street value of what was taken
> is zilch.  The end result is that everything for my 1950s transmitter
> projects is gone and the 1930s transmitters are badly crippled.  Most
> of the crystals, a few tubes and some resistors and fixed caps are
> still here but that?s it as far as electronics; everything else is
> gone.
> 
> On the positive side, I have all the knobs, verniers and other
> non-electrical parts.  Oh, gee whiz willikers wow.  How nice.
> 
> At this point, I?m angry, upset, disappointed (including in the
> ?neighborhood watch? people), and confused.  That last is because the
> responsible party/parties had to go past several laptops, a tablet
> computer, this computer and other bits that were obvious in value.
> Frustration is also high on the list for a variety of reasons.
> 
> There are other projects on the list ? a hybrid CW/SSB/AFSK rig,
> getting a HW-101 operational with a couple junkers to test ideas, etc
> (These account for the requested parts) ? but the 50s equipment is a
> write off and I have to think about how to proceed with the prewar
> transmitters.  The crystals are here and it seems a shame not to use
> them and the other things I have left for them, but more importantly I
> believe I have a responsibility and an obligation to do as I said I
> would.  I just don?t see a way that can happen in any reasonable time
> frame.
> 
> So here are the questions.  How did any of you who?ve gone had
> equipment stolen handle it?  There is no chance of recovering what was
> stolen so what?s my next move?  And, moving over to a question of
> morality, how do I deal with having lost the parts that were so
> generously given to me in good faith?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael, WH7HG
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