[Hallicrafters] Was prices ???? Now Estate

[Edward B Richards]

VAN;

My estate planning is to relieve my widow of having to dispose of stuff
she knows nothing about and to get her the maximum return as we are poor
people. Anyone who leaves this burden for his widow is callous. So there!

73, Ed Richards K6UUZ
AMI member #1534


On Mon, 2 May 2005 21:05:36 -0700 "K7VS Van" <wa7fab at cdsnet.net> writes:
> 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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