[ICOM] Oh NO!!!!

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2012-04-26, at 8:35 AM, C.Whitaker wrote:

> de WB2CPN
> Way back there was a rumor that the Air Force had stashed some
> Collins S-Line, and other tube type equipment, in the mountains of
> Colorado.  Idea was to prevent ESD from atomic near hits.  I do know
> that some equipment was stocked, but that was not the reason.
> Excellent environmental control for long term storage was easier
> there.  Like the reasoning when data processing and data storage
> companies bought all the ex-AT&T underground sites they could get.
> I lost one Kenwood, and one Philco antique radio to ESD.
> 73  Clete

Hi Clete,

There was also a story going round that the US military "un-mothballed" scores of Collins rigs during Desert Storm in 1990: seems that static electricity from blowing sand there was playing havoc with solid state rigs in Kuwait...

I kinda had my doubts as to the validity of this---until about a year, or so, after hostilities, suddenly Fair Radio Sales in Lima, Ohio, had TONS of used Collins stuff for sale...!

Coincidence, or what...?! Hi Hi

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ