[Boatanchors] Very Interesting BA Listing on EchhBay

[J. Forster]

I've listened on the various ham bands off and on.

Essentially QRM, IMO.

-John

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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Carl<km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
>> If it wasnt for the hams you wouldnt be here complaining about them as
>> that
>> one on Ebay wouldnt exist. The military valued the hams contributions in
>> WW2
>> and made the effort to get surplus to them. If that hadnt happened it
>> all
>> would have been scrapped as is done these days. Good luck trying to
>> build a
>> collection of modern military gear.
>
> Save your breath, Carl. We recently had a 3 day dust-up on the
> milsurplus list due to Forster's condescending, superior attitude. Not
> only did he learn nothing from it, one can come to see that he does it
> for the attention.
>
> It's probably a good thing that some are restricted to the 'collector'
> mentality and don't have a license to transmit. There's enough similar
> nonsense on the airwaves already. Rather than inviting new talent to
> take up the torch when we're gone, they do their best to discourage
> anyone who doesn't share and worship their tunnel vision approach to
> old gear.
>
> Fortunately, they're in the minority.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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