[Milsurplus] Surplus Radios WAS Flag salute by veterans okayed!

[Michael Tauson]

Hmmm ... I took Rich's post as being light hearted hence my response.

On the flip side, there are fewer pieces of equipment available now
from just that attitude in the 50s up to around the 70s when the
supplies started drying up.  Of course, now we've got the Audio-Phoolz
swiping all the VT-25s and other stuff because some self-appointed
expert said to and they don't want to be thought uninformed.  (Which
reminds me, I have no clue if Tungsol actually made 211s, but I also
hope no one took me seriously about the use of anything of that order
for anything of that order.)

David, as an ex-Pennsylvanian, I can tell you that what you said about
Gettysburg isn't far from what was suggested more than once.  It
terrifies me to think that someday there may be a legislature with no
sense of history that would allow that.

One of the projects I have for here is to photograph as many of the
old military et al sites as I can before they're "improved" as a few
have already.  Usually ancient native Hawaiian burial sites are
protected but sometimes the courts have to step in to enforce that.
Nothing exists to protect the rest, though, and so a "retired" Navy
ammo dump is now a storage facility and some WW II aircraft shelters
at the old Ewa MCAS are horse stalls.  The rest of the air base is
pretty much gone lost to  a golf course (the same one where I discover
new ways to not hit a ball at the driving range), a C&C of Honolulu
dump for tree trimmings etc, and a road which cuts off one end of a
runway.  I felt a major level of victory when I found the non-road end
of that runway, the last one not buried ... and became a walking ad
for Ace bandages from getting in and out from photographing it.  (My
discussion with Navy Security from that little venture was fun but way
off topic.  Suffice it to say, she was young and seriously cute.)  I
started photgraphing my way around the old Barbers Point NAS but
didn't finish that project, though I have the rest mapped out.
There's still Bellows AFB, Dillingham USAAC base, several old Nike
sites, etc.  This doesn't get into the bunkers and everything, some of
which still haven't been located.

What does all this have to do with milsurplus?  Not all surplus is
electronics.  Some of it is real estate and at least some memory of it
needs to be preserved as well.  Like Shiloh and Gettysburg.

For myself, if an old piece is sufficiently non-virgin to not be
practical to restore to its original condition, it's open for
alteration.  However, what I'm interested in creating from them is
duplicates of things no longer in existence such as the 3.5-7 MHz Type
K receiver the Army was originally shown and the NRL crystal control
ATA/ARA equipment.  Well, except maybe a C-131 equipped R-27.  But
then, I'd have to buy an ATC or a T-47/ART-13 and find or fabricate a
C-287 for channel control to finish out that system.

Okay, I've rattled on enough.  Anyone know where I can find some
decent VT-25?  I've got this audio amp and ... :)

Best regards,

Michael