[ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

[J. Forster]

I believe in the judgement of the market place:

Ham-hacked ARC-5 stuff goes for next to nothing, even if well done.
Unmolested gear goes for easily 10 times as much.

This is not a one-off observation. It happens time after time.

-John

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> Stock car racing was an outgrowth of the prohibition era when bootleggers
> souped up "stock" cars to use them for the unintended purposes such as
> outrunning the revenue agents andeventually for racing.
>
> This is like the Ham radio expermenters in the '40's and '50's who soupled
> up the surplus radios to use them for a different purpose.
>
> Modifying surplus radios is a part of the mil surplus radio history and
> should also be preserved.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment.
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:37:09 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] responsibility to our posterity
>
> 	   I  am also involved woth a group that owns old racing cars, going
> back a hundred years. Some are indeed elegant pieces of machinery, like
> front-wheel drive, supercharged Miller Indianapolis cars of the 1920s.
> Most of us feel an obligation to treat them tenderly (though we drive
> them!) and restore them correctly. But some are very junky-looking 1950s
> modified stock cars. Frankly, I like the idea that even those are
> preserved and restored.
>   - Gordon White
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