[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Re: History of ham mods; opinions?

[Lloyd KK7IZ]

Michael
No flames from this quarter. I applaud your efforts, having spent my life in 
general aviation.
Words from my mentor:
"Working in aviation is like working in a whore house. the better you 
perform, the more often they want to screw you".

rippppp sput  rippppp sputt sputt rippppp  sputter sputter 
roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Now I got the Evenrude running in the cesspool, hear this. Everybody has an 
opinion. Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one, they all stink.
If it wasn't for mil surplus many of us would not be hams today. They give 
us hell for what we did to radios. I remember, 1955-57 there was a surplus 
yard at the south end of Boeing field on Federal Blvd where you waded thru 
the stuff and kicked it out of the way, they moved it around with a small 
tractor and sold it by the pound, or the guy up in the hills in Pennsylvania 
who had/has the stuff setting out in the weather.
Maybe I should have put the BC-375 and BC-348 I had away until I had a B-17 
to put them in. I can just see the thousands of B-17 ham shacks setting in 
back yards all over the country.
My soap box is on fire, so gotta go now.
Thanx
Lloyd  KK7IZ
kk7iz at cox.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Re: History of ham mods; opinions?


> It's no secret I'm working on a book about Aircraft Radio Corporation
> and the company's equipment.  The company's history is a no-brainer
> since no one seems to actually care about that according to the
> discussions so far.  I think it has an important albeit small place in
> the Known History of the Western World and in this case only one
> opinion counts.  Mine.
>
> On the other appendage to be determined at a later date, the equipment
> is subject to intense debate.  Yes, the original use is important.
> That's why it was designed and built in the first place.  Not the
> military use or the civilian use but the original use in general.  But
> it's about the EQUIPMENT and that includes what happened after the
> original users didn't need them anymore.  That part includes
> conversions, modifications and repurposing in a variety of forms.
>
> Discussion of the post-original service fate is NOT promotion of that
> activity.  It isn't promotion of landfill or smelting or being thrown
> en masse into the ocean ... or being converted to satisfy some other
> need.  It IS discussion of what was and is the current state of
> A.R.C.'s equipment, both civilian and military, and possibly an answer
> to why it's not so common anymore.
>
> The tables & lists in my original book (Thanks for the plug, Mike! :-)
> ) were informational and quite useful for the preservation aspect as
> well as for conversion.  They're neutral.  The (vastly expanded)
> tables & lists in the new one are there for the same purpose -
> information.  They also are neutral.
>
> "Neutral" also describes my stance on the information being included.
> If I wanted "pretty" I wouldn't include the post-Cessna parts or the
> company's attempts at branching out (APR-9, sonar, coffee makers, etc)
> or any of those other non-pretty parts.  As I've said before, not all
> of it's pretty but it is part of the equipment's history.  Not its
> useful history as originally designed and utilized but the whole
> story, end to end.
>
> So, as far as the book is concerned, only one opinion counts as to
> what goes in it (which is pretty much everything I can find).  Mine.
>
> Oh, as originally built, the 03A3 barrel had a nasty habit of walking
> after a few rounds were fired through it.  Sporterizing included
> bedding in the barrel much better which made a significant improvement
> in its accuracy.  I got all mine via the NRA and not a one of them
> could fire a decent group until they were hacked up ... er,modified.
>
> Bring on the flames!
>
> BEst regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG
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