[GreenKeys] Never close enough and never willing to ship! LOL!

[Nick England]

Just for the heck of it, here is a 1971 W2DLT catalog
https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/W2DLT-1971.pdf

Jim, have you got one of yours from back then?

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:11 AM Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Back in the day" (like the '60s and '70s) when Van W2DLT
> and I (then W2BVE) were selling surplus Model 19 sets, and
> I had a small Toyota pickup truck I used to put a pallet in
> the bed of the pickup (just barely fit!) and then assemble
> the M-19 table and equipment and strap everything down
> with the plastic strapping bands ... then take it over to a
> trucking dock (like Roadway) and they were not too happy to
> have to bring the forklift down from the loading dock to the
> parking lot level to take the pallet out of the pickup, but
> they would do it ... AND then they would accept it for
> C O D  shipping !!    I doubt one could do that today, and the
> freight would probably be a week's wages.
>
> Jim  W2JC
>
>
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