[Hallicrafters] Was prices ???? Now Estate

[K7VS Van]

Enuff is enuff!  How long is this goiing on?  I have a rather extensive
collection of old equipment.  Multiple pieces of Hallicrafters, Collins,
Heathkit, National, Johnson and other stuff plus a 25 x20 foot shop chock
full of old parts and probably some 15 thousand tubes plus radio books going
back before the 20s.

But you know, when my wife asks me what I am going to do with this stuff,
etc., etc.  I simply say I don't care, let someone else worry about it!

If some old equipment is that important to some of you in terms of how you
acquire it and your estate planning, you better reevaluate your life!!!  You
have a problem.

Van, K7VS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Freeberg, Scott (STP)" <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com>
Cc: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Was prices ???? Now Estate


On 5/2/05, Freeberg, Scott (STP) <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com> wrote:
> While I also believe that after I'm dead, I won't care about my radio
collection, well other than the SW-3 but I'm planning to take that with, I
don't want the ham radio vultures, thieves, crooks, showing up at the door,
lying to my widow, trying to rip her off.

Scott and group -

What you've said here is undoubtably a good idea. Charlie also
mentioned doing an occasional walk-through with a video camera to
update the list (wonder how many do this?). Unless you have a
completely static collection of gear, this is an excellent point.

However, keep in mind that values as we know them are representative
only to us and those like us, at this point in time. Maybe 50 years
from now they'll be considered evil objects of a bad time in the
history of our pre-politically correct world or something equally
ridiculous. More likely, they'll get banned at some point just like
Spark did. Preserving them in the future will be much more of a
challenge than we think, especially if you look at the way some
museums operate now. All the more reason to maintain complete, working
units that can be studied and demonstrated in the future: to prevent
them becoming some useless black or gray box with knobs that no one
can indentify with. If you think this sounds far fetched, randomly ask
some new hams how to peak and tip a final output stage, and what it
accomplishes. The future is HERE.

We need to make the lists, keep the records, and update things for
those around us now as much or moreso than for later. I have three
friends who are all trustworthy and known to my immediate family who
would take care of my stuff. I am the same number to them. But if
you're looking to the future beyond, you need to find someone young
who will appreciate and take care of this stuff as you do.
Collections, museums come and go, and each time a few more items fall
by the wayside.

The vultures who circle out there now are an immediate threat if you
get taken by a bolt from the blue or the refrigerator explodes. Long
term preservation is a much different issue, but it shouldn't keep you
from getting your ducks in a row now.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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