[ARC5] stuff for sale

Tas Karas taskaras at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 17:21:30 EST 2018


Sold.

Bloke gave me enough money in his deposit to buy the boatanchor and the
boat attached to it.
Radios were acquired lawfully, cunningly and with some daring.
The lot consisted of
2 x md-7 modulators, both working, one with covers missing
1x single rack
1x single mount
2x double racks
2x double shock mounts
1x control box, not c-30..bc-451?
1x re-2 antenna current box
2x dynamotors
1x t-15 xmitter
1x t-16 xmitter
1xt-17 xmitter
associated home made cables.



On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:53 AM Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:

> A *lot* of stuff was left behind in Oz after the war from Command sets to
> Merlin engines, Dave. Back around 2001-2002 with the help of Brian Clarke
> and a friend from Brisbane I obtained roughly 75 kg of items like racks,
> shockmounts, controls, cables, etc from the Bill Babb (Baab?) collection.
> Brian can fill in the additional info, but IIRC, Bill purchased tons
> (literally) of radio, radar, and whatever else surplus after the war. Stuff
> the US didn't want to bring back, also some that was apparently used by the
> Australian forces as there are little round refurb tags affixed to several
> items. Brian painstakingly listed each item with tag and other info.
> Managed to find a lot of good bits, many of which I've still never seen
> available here. And that was only one guy's stuff. I'd bet there are a lot
> of goodies down under that many here would drool over.
>
> I was single then so it didn't seem crazy. Shipping wasn't cheap, but
> better than today of course.
>
> ~ Todd/KAQ
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 6:35 AM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting that these are in  Australia.  Were they acquired locally?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> *On Behalf Of *Tas Karas
>> *Subject:* [ARC5] stuff for sale
>>
>>
>>
>> hello
>>
>>
>>
>> Thought I'd give you guys first dibs at some arc-5 stuff, Lf xmitters
>>
>>
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