[ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARB Modifications

[Geoff]

I was well beyond obsolete WW2 gear by those years and historical interest 
was almost zero, even 20's battery sets and gorgeous 30's consoles were 
throwaways.





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From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: <ARC5 at mailman.QTH.net>; <Milsurplus at mailman.QTH.net>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] ARB Modifications


>
>> By the way, Roy Pafenberg's conversions for 73 were generally very well 
>> thought out.
>
> "Well thought out" and "Wayne Green" are contradictory terms.  And 
> Roy...he pretty much
> completely destroyed any historical value of the gear made victim in his 
> articles.  I
> remember enjoying seeing some new device with which I was unfamiliar, more 
> than 45 years
> ago, but even then I never ever would have desired a radical rework that 
> was often his
> trade mark.  Back then, I only hacked gear that had been pre-hacked before 
> I got it.
> I kept the gear I got through Navy MARS in the 1960s, or Fair Radio or 
> Meshna in the 1970s,
> all original.  I still have it all today, still all original.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
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