[Johnson] Johnson Navigator

[Ka9p]

I feel strongly both ways guys, but it is what it is.

I really chuckled at the subsequent post noting missing screws tho.  My first Navigator was big stuff.  I was in grad school and stationless, but had saved up enough money from my stipend for a really beater station, and found a 20 dollar Navigator with NO meter and NO screws for exactly the reasons noted,  

I paired that up with an old SX100 from a guy in QST (remember when people advertised radios there for a fair price, and you could write them and work out the deal?) and after liberating a junk meter from a school junk box, put them on the air by dangling a wire out a 5th floor window.

That thing chirped away for a year until I graduated and could buy a serious radio, and I was really attached to it for that reason, and its intrinsic coolness, but let it go when I moved on because it was heavy and ugly, still had no screws, and I really didn't appreciate how rare it was.

Anyway, to get to the real point, a friend of mine recently passed away, and was a big time collector, restorer and vintage guy (and a great guy generally) and had on his shelf for many years a Navigator with a really big meter (sadly) - when he realized he would no longer need it, he sold it to me for 80 bucks, knowing how much I wanted one, and told me, in essence - it's too bad about the meter, it would be a $500 dollar radio otherwise.  And Jim traded about as much of this stuff as anyone.

I'm dusting it off for SKN, if anyone has their Johnson junk on I'll be lurking around 7055 to 7060 tomorrow, not loud, but with a distinctive note......

Happy New Year to all. 

Scott

In a message dated 12/30/08 21:59:30 Central Standard Time, n7rk at cox.net writes:
Chris - Who appointed you as the price police? 

The seller can ask whatever he wants and if someone pays it more power 
to him. It only takes one buyer who wants it. 

No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy it. 

And yes, they are a very rare transmitter and even harder to find with 
the original meter. Very few were made compared to Rangers and Valiants 

73 and Happy New Year, 

Dave N7RK 
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