[ARC5] Is "Big/Heavy" Mil-Radio Dead?

[Jim Sinclair]

I recently sold a 66 pound Collins 52286 (art13 similar) and shipped from California to Florida for $86 by Greyhound. I had to drop off at terminal and buyer had to pick up at terminal. They hand handle so did not need wooden crate. I tried to ship a 65 pound transformer by UPS and it would have been $120 or more to go to Indiana.
I can be worth considering Greyhound for the heavier items.
Jim

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> On Sep 16, 2018, at 12:11 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> It has always been harder to "pass along" big,
> heavy
> military radios.  However, with the obscene
> increases
> in shipping costs and the rapid aging of the
> mil-radio
> community (with its decrease in disposable
> income),
> have we reached a "tipping point" where things
> like ARC-2, RAK/RAL, the big Nationals and about
> any other
> set that comes in over 30 lbs will become almost
> impossible
> to move?  
> 
> I have a nice, working/original (save one small
> capacitor value increase) AN/ARC-2A with dyno and 
> 30+ watts out (with 27V A+).  Not the slightest
> interest
> within a couple of hundred miles.  Have a solid
> wooden
> shipping crate for it, but is anyone really so
> interested
> as to pay the "king's ransom" needed to ship it?
> And I've noted, on some of the local "trader"
> nets, 
> that "big heavy" everything is getting harder 
> to "re-home."  The last several hamfests I've 
> attended, most everything "heavyweight" went
> back home with the owner, despite attractive
> pricing in some cases.
> 
> Is "big/heavy" over?  Will we be forced to send
> the heavyweights to the scrap yard?
> Your thoughts?
> 
> GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S
> 
> "You're always working at the margins
> of what you don't understand. 
> That's the only exhilarating place to be. 
> To just illustrate what you already know
> is condescending and a waste of your time."
> --Emmet Godwin--
> 
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