[ARC5] a crying shame?

[Brian Clarke]

Hello Bill,

That's an awful lot of QRM - about a different eBay item. Try to stay 
focussed?
201051593929 is a Type 12 BCB receiver with a BC-455 tuning dial fitted. So, 
it's not new nor is it unused. But equally, it is NOT the item that started 
at one cent.

73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] a crying shame?


> On 03/17/2014 11:25 PM, john rose wrote:
>> The buyer of this item may be disappointed. This radio is certainly not 
>> new and/or unused. I wrote the seller advising him he was wrong, but…… 
>> Fraud?
>>
>>
>> eBay item number:
>> 201051593929
>> ______________________________________________________________
>>
> Hi,
>
> I don't see any fraud there. It's described as some old junk and the 
> starting bid is one penny. It's not possible to have an opening bid any 
> lower than that. How could anybody with enough intelligence to plug in a 
> computer and get on the internet read what he says about the radio and 
> look at the pictures come to the conclusion the he is bidding on a brand 
> new KX3!? Or even a 'new-in-the-box' command receiver?
>
> Making anything of that radio is going to take a bag of parts in addition 
> to what is already there. Inexpensive parts. The big cost is going to be 
> elbow grease and lots of hands-on work. For some of us, the more time we 
> get to mess with it the better. It's not going to be a gold-plate, rare, 
> mint, collector quality, museum piece. Those are being displayed in 
> museums right now. And the opening bid was surely more than on cent. If I 
> win with my bid the radio will eventually be back on the air on 160 
> meters.
>
> I don't want to rouse anybody into a bidding war <evil grin> so I'll point 
> out that all of those caps and most of those resistors will have to be 
> replaced. Eeeew. Work. Time. Not authentic. It'll need sheet metal work. 
> Eeeew! more work. And paint! Even more work and um... smelly, too. Whoa! 
> There is a tube missing! And the BFO can? And the audio transformer. Looks 
> like a replacement for that dangling on the back porch! Everybody knows 
> that spider webs come from...spiders! Yikes! Those communist troops I saw 
> in the 60s were bad enough but - spiders?
>
> A little bit of humor aside, some of us are makers and rebuilders (or 
> aspiring makers and rebuilders) and see things like that radio as the 
> beginnings of another project.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
>
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