[Milsurplus] Using Old Radios

[Michael St. Angelo]

My two uncles worked in electronics during WW2; one was a radio operator.
They got me started with using  surplus radios as an inexpensive way of 
getting into Ham Radio
and learning the "innards" of a radio. I got my first boatanchor, a Wireless 
Set 19, from one of them.
 They encouraged me to modify the radio as they did during the war and to 
use the sets.

I believe eBay spoiled the hobby. I equate "rarity and historical value" 
with speculators who are more
intereseted buying and selling radios than understanding their functionality 
and appreciating the technology of the time.

My two cents...

Mike N2MS


>
> For me, I am more interested in functionality than rarity and historical 
> value. Call me insenstive, if you will, but I want my radios to work, and 
> I use them. Of course, mine aren't tremendously old.  Except for the 
> exotic TACAN stuff my radios are from the mid seventies forward.
>