[Elecraft] Suggested prices?

[Bill Frantz]

A widow approached our club wanting help in disposing of her SK 
husband's Collins and Drake equipment. I said I would test them 
to see how well they worked. I brought them up using a Variac 
and tried them into dummy loads and on the air. She handled the 
sales via ebay etc.

Believe me, the chance to play with that equipment was more than 
enough compensation. She insisted I take some of the pieces, so 
I have a Schurr paddle connected to my K3 and a Collins phone 
patch waiting to be connected.

I'm happy and would do it again. I think she is happy too.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 1/3/19 at 5:17 PM, jim at audiosystemsgroup.com (Jim Brown) wrote:

>When I helped a neighbor ham's widow dispose of his stuff about 
>ten years ago, she got EVERYTHING except what I had to pay for 
>shipping. I did all the packing. Buyers picked up the antennas 
>and power amps. I bought all of the hard line. Ditto for a few 
>years ago when a neighbor ham moved out of his house and moved 
>onto a sailboat! In fact, with the widow, I categorized his 
>huge junkbox, coax, hardline, and antennas. I coordinated more 
>than dozen or so of his friends to take down his antennas and 
>his towers. At least three guys did the climbing, with lots of 
>help on the ground. And when we had sold as much as we could, 
>several of us helped her drag what was left to several ham swap meets.
>
>I took a bunch of the stuff I wanted, and paid her what anyone 
>else would have paid for it.
>
>This is the ham radio that I grew up in, and I hope my XYL be treated that way too.
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