[Milsurplus] Never Throw Anything Away (was: A new high?)

[David Knepper]

I have an ARC-5 - 7 to 9 Mhz unit that is still in the sealed foiled box
unopened.

If you want it, make me an offer.

Thank you.
Dave, W3ST
Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
Publisher of the Collins Journal
www.collinsra.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Norris" <r390a@bellsouth.net>
To: <milsurplus@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Never Throw Anything Away (was: A new high?)


> Yea, tell me about it. *BUT* that particular transmitter has always
> been pretty hard to find, *and* it is in great shape. Most of the things
> this guy has put up on ebay have been mint or near so.
>
> My comment on this thread, which seems to get rejected by the moderator
> when attempting to post to  the ARC-5 list is that *there are not many
> examples of good ARC-5 gear any more* especially things like the T-15.
> Much of the stuff has gotten ham-hacked over the past 50 some odd years.
> Much of the gear that was not "any good" for use on the ham bands has
> been simply tossed over the past 60 years. Much of the stuff that is/was
> usable on the ham bands has been modified.
>
> Back in the late 70's and early 80's I had a large storage shed full of
> mostly unmodified ARC-5 equipment, quite a few cables and splines
> and control boxes. Could not *GIVE* the stuff away. I would take it
> to hamfests with *FREE* signs on it, and most of the time have no
> takers. In the mid 80's I lost my storage and had to get rid of all
> of it. Offered a lot of it to organizations like the Confederate Air
> Force. They didn't want it either. Back then it was considered "junk"
> that is the only way I ended up with it, actually, got it from several
> older local hams who had no need for it and were going to throw
> away "all that old surplus junk" so I offered to take it "to play with"
> back in '78 or so.
>
> I wish I had not had to choose between throwing it away or throwing
> it away, but I filled a dumpster full of quite an assortment of TX
> RX cables, control splines and adaptors, etc. No one wanted it at
> hamfests, no one bought but a few select bits when I listed the items
> in the Yellow sheets. The only thing that sold at all were a few "special"
> items like this. I had at least one T-15, a T-16, a couple of R-24s and
> one or two BC-312s. Think the most I got out of any of those back in
> '84 was $25 and I felt lucky to have gotten that. It really broke my
> heart to have to dump the rest, but I was going to college and lost my
> storage space. I liked using the stuff then and I still do.
>
> Wish I had kept it, I could have retired early. Where were all the
> ARC-5 Collectors *then*??
>
> Tom KA4RKT
>
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=585&item=2219847439
> >
> >Wow !!
> >
> >-John
> >
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