[Heathkit] You never know what you'll find in a boatanchor

[John Dilks K2TQN]

At 10:05 AM 2/2/2007, you wrote:
>I found $497 in my NC-300.

I think the big find was this story:

Early last year a ham called me from northern NJ and offered me an 
estate full of old radios.  It was about 3 hours from my home and all 
of the radios described were of the wooden broadcast type.  The owner 
was the Sister of the deceased, and she wanted to clear out his home, 
and probably sell it. She wanted one buyer to take all the radios at 
one time.  I decided I didn't want to do all that work for radios 
that I really wasn't interested in.  (If I got them, I'd have to sell 
most - and I thought better of all that work.)

I set her up with the New Jersey Antique Radio Club. The deal they 
made was - they would clear everything out, sell them at auction, and 
split the money with the Sister.  She was happy with that.

So one day several members with vans and large RVs showed up and 
unloaded everything.  I'm told the vans were "cock-full." The members 
took all the radios to the clubs store house and unloaded.  As they 
were carrying in the radios, there were a few that had not been seen 
before, so they were set aside.  After the unloading was done these 
radios were examined.  One, upon opening, had a towel wrapped up 
inside. When the towel was unwrapped, $10,000 in one-hundred and 
fifty dollar bills fell out.  Everyone was dumbfounded.

A quick examination of all the remaining radios was done with nothing 
else found.  A telephone call the Sister was made, and the money was 
returned.  She passed some money back to the club, thanking them for 
their honesty.  It seemed the brother had hid the money, then later 
on thought someone had robbed him when he couldn't find it.

So the radio was named, "The $10,000. Radio."

That's my story, and here is the NJARC version....

http://www.njarc.org/10000radio.html

73, John Dilks, K2TQN