[ARC5] BC-348R - fair price?

[Tom Lee]

That's hilarious. Thanks for the laugh of the day!

--Cheers,
Tom

-- 
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On 6/21/2020 14:13, Joe Connor via ARC5 wrote:
> Here's my BC-348 story. It occurred about 20 years ago when I first 
> started collecting military radios and knew next to nothing. I was at 
> a swapmeet, and I saw a BC-348. The seller allowed me to remove the 
> receiver from the case to look at the innards, and I was doing it very 
> gingerly. Also in the vicinity was a really old man and his wife. If 
> you called central casting and asked for a very cute but very old 
> couple, they would have sent these two. The guy had to have been 85 or 90.
>
> As I'm delicately trying to remove the radio from the case, I hear 
> this booming voice: "Give it a good yank, kid. It ain't a f-cking egg; 
> it ain't gonna break." It was the little old man. It turned out that 
> he had worked on these sets with the Eighth Air Force and was 
> transported back into sergeant mode at the sight of a dumb rookie who 
> didn't know his rear end from second base. I don't know who was more 
> surprised, me or his wife. I doubt he had spoken like that since VE Day.
>
>
>  Joe Connor
>
> On Sunday, June 21, 2020, 04:20:49 PM EDT, Hubert Miller 
> <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> That sounds like a wee bit low, as I have bought and sold parts for 
> more than that.
>
> But at hamfests, visuals are most important.
>
> -Hue
>
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