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

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:00:56 -0600

Same place you we're .. college, working, raising family's, and no
discretionary money..  mac/mc

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Knepper" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Tom Norris" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Never Throw Anything Away (was: A new high?)

> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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