[Milsurplus] how rare is it if you don't know you have it?!

[little e]

or, the case of the purloined power supply - by N4TGC Eric

	Dave's well-expressed dissertation on 'how rare is rare', reminds
me of having spent the last three months looking for a PP-1175 p/s that was
right under my nose: I'd covered it up with the same dust cover I'd been
using over an RT-70/AM-65 (which is the same size), and promptly forgotten
what was really there ...
	I consider the BC-924 transmitter to be rare, since I rarely see
one come up for sale, but I'd been offering mine sporadically over the
years, and just now, someone actually solicited one!  (Alternatively, I'd
tried to buy a BC-923, with no luck.)
	Someone recently asked for a special meter for a GO-9, which I
don't have, but I do have my meter movements secured in easily-acessable
ammo cans, so I was able to go look, with little effort.  How many times
have we deigned to bother, even tho we thought we might have the item,
because it might require an hour-long search, and might only be worth a few
dollars?  Guilty as charged.
	I have un-earthed an amazing amount of goodies by the meer effort
of asking on the 2-meter emergency-practice net here locally, and by
attending every dinky little tail-gate 'fest I can find out about - and
then asking, do you have any stuff at home?  While I live in the 'black
hole' of mil-surplus availability, there's still a few pieces out there -
and what's significant, the owners, some geezers, some not, often don't
even know what they have! (Unfortunately, when they do, they tend to be
deluded by ebay into thinking it's a gold mine ...)
	So is it rare?  It sure is, if you don't even know you have it!
And it will get even rarer, if it gets tossed or scrapped because it's not
worth a gazillion dollars on epay!
	So what I'm encouraging is, don't lets just talk mil-surp amongst
ourselves, enthuse (cautiously) to everyone!  Ya never knows what ya'll
turn up!
(In that vein, I tend to take ANYTHING, no matter how mundane or
'worthless', as it encourages the seller/giver to think of me when more
turns up.)	e