[Hallicrafters] Was prices ???? Now Estate

[K6JEK]

Widow shmidow!  What's wrong with you people?  I intend to outlast the 
XYL.  Eat right, exercise, don't smoke, keep your fingers off the HV, 
drink a little wine and ponder all that crap she's going to leave you 
instead.

Jon

On May 2, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Edward B Richards wrote:

> 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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