[ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection

[J. Forster]

Fair questions.

First off, most collections are more random accumulations of stuff, almost
like driftwood, than an organized effort to complete systems. I realized
that maybe a decade ago of my own collection. As such, have little value
beyond the break up value of the individual units (receivers,
transmitters, etc). Sad but true.

There are outstanding exceptions, like Mike Hanz's collection. In these
cases, the whole is clearly much, much greater than the sum of its parts
and should be preserved intact.

Richard Hankins and Tony Waller in the UK have set up a "Restoration
Trust" which is the kind of place such collections should ultimately go,
IMO.

FWIW,

-John

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> I've been following this discussion.
>
>  I moved into my present house in1998. This was the first house where me
> and my wife had enough space to store all of our goodies.
>
> While employed I don't have the time to work on all of my projects so I've
> been waiting until I'm retired. I still have a couple of years to go but I
> realize I'll never finish all of my projects. My daughter is still in
> college but we may want to downsize when she leave the nest. I also had to
> emply my parent's and an aunt's house and I don't want to put my daughter
> through that hassle withour house.
>
> Therefore I've decided to thin out the collection at my leasure. I'm not
> out to make a killing nor do I want to hassle with shipping so I've been
> selling at hamfests.
>
> Also, I don't have crystal ball. I can't predict how my health or how the
> economy will be down the road.
>
> I'm curious. I notice lots of baby boomers are holding onto their mint
> equipment. When do they intend to dispose of it and who do they intend to
> sell it to?
>
>
> 73,
>
> Mike N2MS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: J. Forster <jfor at quik.com>
> To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
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> Sent: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:10:15 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Managing Yiour Colection
>
> On the surface what you say makes some sense, but if you have spent years
> completing systems and looking for those rare bits, it does not.
> Furthermore, I have lots of test gear that I've cleaned, tested and
> calibrated. Selling that off is flushing the time and effort down the
> drain.
>
> Cetrtainly selling off average condition ARC-5s or BC-348s or whatever
> that's in storage from a flea makes some sense, but certainly not across
> the board.
>
> FWIW,
>
> -John
>
>
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