[ARC5] OT? bc-348 bfo question

[Fernando - LU2DFM]

Outside USA boatanchors (in any condition) are much, *much* scarce. You
can never count on getting some parts radio to scavenge things from,
that radio may not appear for years. 

So the options here are pay top money for relatively good specimens, like
this one (the price is approx. us$ 2500.00):

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-470484019-receptor-uno-de-los-mejores-_JM

or this one (around us$ 1100.00):
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-475468596-telefunken-e-103-aw4-receptor-alemana-_JM

or pay the very expensive overseas couriers, or cross your fingers and
wait for a lucky strike :)

Whenever some radio appears, I carefully analyze if it is worth or not.
Usually it is. 

I have five or six radios that are in boxes waiting for another one so
I can restore one of them to working condition. There's a slim chance that
this will ever happen for all of them.

best,
Fer


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:17:56AM -0400, 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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-- 
73 de Fer, LU2DFM