[ARC5] Radio Collectors, Father Time and "Basket Cases"

[Ian Wilson]

If you are nuts, Ken, then you have plenty of company.

I like to do this also - rescue some abandoned piece of gear,
restore it to the best of my ability, enjoy using it on the air for days
or weeks, then move it along to a new owner.

My most intensive (from an electronic point of view) refurbishment
was to restore an HRO-50 whose previous owner had seen fit to
replace all the tube electronics with solid state "equivalents". Luckily
all the RF components were still in place. All the tube bases, tag
strips, power supply, output stage, etc, had been gutted. It was a fun
project and of course I lost money on it, but at least there is an "almost"
HRO-50 out there again now.

73, ian K3IMW



On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon
<kgordon2006 at frontier.com>wrote:

> One other thing I thought I should mention as I don't know how many others
> here might look on this sort of thing the same way as I do: I really love
> just
> working on this old gear, making it work at least as well as it did
> originally.
>
> After I have "fixed" a piece of gear, returning it to the condition it was
> in when
> it left the factory, all I want to do with it after playing with it for a
> day or two is
> to get rid of it, and start on another one.
>
> I don't need to keep it after that.
>
> Am I nuts or are there others out there with the same attitude?
>
> Ken W7EKB
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