[ARC5] Re; Hamming WW2 surplus electronics gear

[Jack Sullivan]

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Subject: ARC5 Digest, Vol 105, Issue 29
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Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 4:35 PM


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Hamming of Surplus Equipment (Geoff)
   2. Re: My R-25/ARC-5 and ARA CBY-46104 (WA5CAB at cs.com)
   3. Partial BC-348-R at Auction (Mike Morrow)


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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:43:57 -0400
From: "Geoff" <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Hamming of Surplus Equipment
To: "Robert  Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>,    <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 2:29 PM
Subject: [ARC5] Hamming of Surplus Equipment


> Relative to the subject question, a college professor told me that in 1945 
> he was directed to destroy 100 B-25's in southern Germany by means of 
> explosives and burying the remains - and specifically was told by a 
> general officer that he would NOT remove the radio equipment for use by US 
> forces there.
>
> Wayne

Unmodified does not mean only NOS and there are countless candidates of 
somewhat decrepit versions around. Ive no problem with that scenario nor do 
I think any reasonable person would disagree.