[Milsurplus] Auction at Redstone

[Revcom]

That price is probably for the lot of -10- or -11- as listed, then be 
about right
Rod

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] Auction at Redstone


> Hi, Folks,
> 
> Bruce Sugarberg put me onto this auction:
> 
> http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=1635553&convertTo=USD
> 
> This is amazing.  Those are the dynamotors for the ARN-59 ADF receiver
> which A.R.C. replaced by a dynaverter in the late 1950s.  The quoted
> individual purchase price is $3539 EACH which is closer to the
> purchase price of the entire ARN-59 system (although even that seems
> high unless A.R.C. charged a lot extra to make up the military vs.
> civilian ID tags) including shipping etc.
> 
> Redstone Arsenal has four or five like auctions, two with eleven
> dynamotors and the rest with ten.  I wonder what corner of what
> warehouse they dug these out of.  But it does offer hope that more
> post-war A.R.C. equipment is still hanging around waiting to be found.
> 
> But the really amazing part is that they require an EUC.  Okay, let me
> think here.  The B-52 and the C-131 are both 1950s aircraft and both
> are still operational.  I think there are a few others but those are
> the biggies that come to mind.  Never mind the minor detail that the
> equipment's been available as surplus for decades, it now requires an
> EUC and all the nonsense that goes with one.
> 
> I can almost but not quite see the reasoning behind a EUC but, to be
> honest, it's more like the McCarthy "Commie witch hunts" where
> everyone was Red unless proven otherwise.  Substitute "terrorist" for
> "Communist" then add in the same brand of zealots who tried to get the
> international Morse code classified as top secret and the situation's
> not all that different.
> 
> Our government at works and play.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael, WH7HG
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