[Boatanchors] Russian radio/telephone items from Afghanistan for sale

[William L Howard]

I received this list of items for sale. Is anyone interested in any of
these items.

Bill Howard
Mr. Howard,

Below is the text from my original e-mail.  There were several .jpg
attachments that were too large to be sent to you together.  I do not
know if we have compatible compression software, so I will send each of
these to you individually.  Thanks.

Mr. Howard,

My apologies for not getting this out to you sooner.  We had spoken a
couple of weeks ago about some communications equipment I had picked up
in Afghanistan and was wanting to sell.  You in return asked for
pictures.  Here is a list of what I have:

Item                                                        Quantity
Condition
Chinese HF Mercury Talk/Walk Radio                   01
Excellent
Unknown Russian HF Specialty Radio                  01
Excellent
R-105                                                      04
Good to Poor
R-108                                                      01
Fair
R-392                                                      01
Good
Unknown Russian VHF Handheld                    01                Fair
K-10 Switchboard                                          03
Good to Poor
Unknown Russian Switchboard (10-port) R-193?          01
Fair
TA-57                                                            10
Excellent to Good
TAI-43                                                     01
Good
Unidentified Russian Electronic Accessory           01
Fair
Russian Mine Detectors                                 02
Good
Afghan Telephones w/ Twisted Pair Cable             03
Good
Arabic Ohmmeter                                             02
Good
Russian/Chinese Battery Boxes                           10
Good to Fair
Miscellaneous Headphones, Handsets and Cables
Good to Poor

Attached are pictures of three of the items.  The first picture is of
the Chinese HF Mercury Talk/Walk Radio.  The next five are of the
Russian HF Radio.  This is the most intriguing to me.  The last three
are of some electronics accessory.

I hope this helps.  The condition stated above is general condition.  I
had wild ideas of getting power supplied to them and see if I could get
them running, but this is unrealistic.  I haven't been able to keep them
in much better shape that the Afghans did.  I figure the sooner I get
them to someone who has the time and know how to get them running the
better.  Let me know what you think.  I live in Birmingham, AL and
travel extensively around the southeast, so I can bring them a
reasonable distance.  I do want to sell them, but do not intend on
taking the shirt off anybody's back they are  an interesting find and I
would like someone to have them that can appreciate if not use them.  I
have been a commo guy my 14+ years in the military and am a RF Engineer
with Nextel in the civilian world, so I have an interest in not seeing
these rot away.  Thanks.

Tom B