[ARC5] no bids yet, (on dynamotor)

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Mcvey via ARC5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>

> I rather bide my time and find the stuff "where is, as is"
> instead of getting into a bidding war on Ebay for ancient 
> electronics.

I can tell you from decades of experience, my friend:
if that is your plan, the odds of you ever completing
any set are nearly zero.  I can't remember the last time I
found any intact "ARC-5" accessory at a hamfest.
There will doubtless be three or four people here who
will tell you of finding onesie-twosies here and there
in places hundreds and thousands of miles and years apart.
You can't visit all of them every year,
so those stories are useless to you.
In forty-plus years of radio, I can count on my fingers
how many racks, modulators, control boxes (other than
the common-as-sand 3-RX), dynamotors etc.
I've seen at hamfests or estate sales.

Ebay has been the greatest boon to serious collectors, ever.
I now own items I never dreamed
of even *seeing* in my lifetime.

GL OM DE Dave AB5S