[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

People (or men, anyway) had about as much money in the 50's as they have 
today.  I know because I was there.  As an overall concept (there are 
exceptions to every rule), I don't buy into claims about how much people learned by 
butchering surplus.  I've had a lot more of it pass through my hands than 
most people.  I have in my storage buildings right now probably around 50 
Command Set receivers or transmitters.  Some are apparently untouched.  On those 
that aren't, most of the workmanship is pretty bad.  Anyone who started 
working for me and did work that badly wouldn't work for me for very long 
before I ran them off.

In a message dated 06/12/2017 20:34:26 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gbabits at custertel.net writes: 
> Quit judgeing work of 70 years ago by what you think today.  After the 
> war 
> and into the early 1950s  people wanted to get on the air, had very little 
> 
> money, and used what they could.  The command sets were cheap and 
> plentiful. 
> Great way to get started.  There are probably more "heavilly modified" 
> command sets than there are unmodified ones.
> 
> 73,
> George
> W7HDL

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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