[ARC5] OT? bc-348 bfo question

[kgordon2006 at frontier.com]

Boy! Am I EVER on the "same page" you are on Bill!! :-)

Carry n.

Ken W7EKB


On 15 Sep 2013 at 10:17, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> Hi Fernando..
> ....Everybody,
> 
> "Impractical" or not has proven highly subjective. I have acquired some 
> "junk" command receivers that were generously offered by some of the 
> people who are closer to the "museum piece" part of the hobby and they 
> asked only for the postage to send them here. The idea was I could use 
> them as "parts mules". I straightened up dings and dents and removed 
> some of the mods that had been imposed on the radios and I got *EVERY* 
> one of them working again. A couple of them are looking pretty good! I 
> also bought a couple of them at reasonable prices that didn't meet the 
> former owner's wants. As you have said they still pull signals from the 
> aether and they're fun to use. I get a feel for where they may have been 
> and certainly for their purpose. I'm sitting in the warm comfort of my 
> home but somebody else was cold and afraid while using some of these. I 
> think of those guys.
> 
> During warm weather weeknds we have the garage/yard/rummage sales where 
> people sell their 'castoffs' and surplus household goods for pennies on 
> the dollar. I find old radios almost for free and take them home for 
> parts. A good way to decide if the parts are good is to apply power and 
> see if the radio works. Almost all of them work at power on. I hate to 
> scrap them for the parts but nobody else seems to want them. Usually the 
> plastic cases are cracked and broken. And -  I can only listen to one 
> radio at a time.
> 
> For most of us radio is a hobby. Freshening an old radio can be time 
> consuming and may need a lot of elbow grease. The severe accountants 
> will charge engineering lab fees against that time and determine that 
> the radio costs more than it's completed selling price and is therefore 
> "unworthy". We can view those labor costs as the dollar value we 
> received from our hobby instead of an expense that we didn't really have 
> to pay. That 'money' never really changes hands anyway.
> 
> Keep them playing.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
> P.S.  If there are more hangar queen, junk radios available for the 
> postage I'm up for getting some more of them playing again.
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