[Milsurplus] Your BC-148 CW operator

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

C'mon, where are the cogniscenti?

The BC-148 has a J37 key wood-screwed to it's base.  Attempt to
substitute a keying substitute will produce violent rejection by,
say, slamming the top on the offending party's fingers.

Beats a squib

Now on the "museum appeal" of our stuff.  I've three examples
where this is just plain wishful thinking.  No four.

Curators are more interested in people & things that are big, make
loud noises, & kill.  Radio/electronics have as much general appeal as a
special exhibit on wartime cot factoies.

But then we do have a cagey few that represent themselves as museum
keepers.  A tax dodge.  Or maybe a plymouth.

Think there's only two ww2 electronics exhibitor/recipient.  That's
Smithsonian @ Dulles (tnx mh) & HEMUS @ Balto (they've got all my
SCR268 detritus).  Otherwise, our wonder stuff is chopped liver.

Largely, we've grown too old, foggy-headed, & impotent to maintain & run 
the ww2 things.  Further there's been 2 intervening sea changes in 
electronics generations that are each somewhat indecipherable to many.  
To sweep the truth away, the feigned importance of "system collection" 
to save history for the future glosses inactivity/inability over.

Certainly MRCA is an exception, right qho?

Toynbee said "if we ignore the past, we're doomed to relive it"
Well, maybe.  But in my wildest immagination I can't envision caves
full of Geico-men making 12SQ7s.

   Marty (aa4rm of the loyal opposition)