[ARC5] after we're gone

[David Bock]

It is, indeed, a challange. The Henry Ford Museum sold most, if not all, of
the radio collection at auction some thirty years ago with a change in
director. This included the Marconi Maggie.

I donated a whole trailer full of complete and pristine ARC-5 equipment and
manuals to the Yankee Air Force. Sadly most of it was burned in the hanger
fire but some remained to still fly in Yankee Lady.

My Civil War Signal Corps equipment will need a home one day and I have
settled on the Fort McAllister museum in Georgia. It is state owned and
pretty stable as these things go.  Other materials have already gone to the
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon. Some have gone to the museum in Manassas
Virginia, the museum at Stones River, Gettysburg, and the museum at Kennesaw
Mountain.

I have already trimmed out my pristine military equipment and donated it
where I thought it just might have a shot at survival. The rest I have no
compunction with using in amateur service.

If you have pristine equipment (they do NOT want modified equipment) the
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon is a very good choice and they have
excellent storage capability as well as rotating displays. The worst case
scenerio with them is that some of the material might end up in the national
army museum system down the road. I have followed much of the material in
that museum since the late sixties and none have been lost to scrap or sale.
In general, the government run museums are your best bet--but all are still
just bets.

Private collections and museums have, in my experience, pretty much followed
the "what can I get now" route too often followed by the grand-children of
the original collectors and museum owners and were quickly broken up and
sold at auctions as soon as the kids could get their hands on them. That is
how much of my own collection came about in the first place!

Dave W8OHS

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     With any items that we think should be preserved,  it's a challenge
to see that the "right thing" is done after we are gone. From Hawaii,
doubly so. I am having issues with historically important things here -
things that have been in my family for 200 years. Even my grandmother's
sterling silver that she inherited and was a wedding present to her
sister-in-law in 1898, is not desired by the current generation. Maybe
as they get older ideas will change.

     Maybe there is some sort of museum at Pearl Harbor that could be
induced to accept the Command Set gear when you no longer have use for
it? I have searched for interested museums for my car stuff and decided
on the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
  - Gordon White
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