[ARC5] [Milsurplus] responsibility to our posterity

[J. Forster]

Many of the mods were because of a serious lack of understanding of the
designs.

Just look at the mods for almost any aircraft or AFV transmitter output
circuits. Many of them are just nonsense, and if preserved, belong only in
a "rogues gallery" of what not to do.

FWIW,

-John

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>
> Indeed true and we have saved some great   examples of  it although I
> sometimes kringe when I see what is now a scarce  artifact you have to
> remember
> at the time  there was so much of this stuff  around  it many times  went
> for metal reclamation.
>
> We also have a great collection of the  conversion manuals and some
> folders  of notes and  clippings too...
>
> Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/14/2010 12:55:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> jfor at quik.com writes:
>
> Modifying surplus radios is a part of the mil surplus radio history  and
>> should also be  preserved.
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 9/14/2010 12:41:50 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> mstangelo at comcast.net writes:
>
> 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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