[ARC5] BC-348R - fair price?

[Dennis Monticelli]

Joe,

I LOVE that story.  If only you had a video of that episode.

Dennis AE6C

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:13 PM Joe Connor via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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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