[ARC5] Command set installation

[Phillip Carpenter]

Ditto Dave!

It is also a way to get Hams to man and work the radios. Who is going to volunteer time to man a military station that you can only listen to, given you can receive anything military, or is only a dummy installation?

Phillip W4RTX 

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> On Jun 26, 2017, at 7:54 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Command set installation
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>> I don't understand going to all the trouble to install apparently working gear like this to make a ham-configured station (complete with display plaque and large call-sign on the T-47A) as opposed to a military-configured station.  With little more effort, an operable and historically-accurate representation could be made.
> ---------------
> 
> Because ultimately,  FiFi is not first a museum;
> she is first a business.  A "ham configured," military-
> equipped station on-the-air at least makes a nod
> to history, unlike the plastic, "Barbie" compu-radios
> commonly seen on "museum ships."
> The ham-operable station on FiFi brings more riders
> and gives "free" publicity.
> 
> Please let me be clear: I do not condemn what they
> have done.  I believe the people who dedicate
> so much work to FiFi sincerely care about the
> history and want to "get things right," but flying
> this magnificent machine is monumentaly expensive.
> They must do what they can to increase cash flow
> to keep the bills paid.  Some compromises are
> necessary.  At least they've got the ART-13 running
> instead of shoe-horning in some plastic Icom junk.
> "Better half-a-loaf..."
> 
> 73 Dave S.
> 
> 
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