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

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

Hue,
Be sure to use Dymo Tape labels for the items listed and give due 
credit to Fair!BTW,In 1970 (junior in High School) I got all my first 
SCR-274N and ARC-5 gear from G&G.Went there and haggled for it 
all.There was an entire wall of NOS T-20 or T-21 transmitters all 
stacked like bricks.I got a BC-604 tx around the corner in a very dark 
surplus store (I tripped over the thing which brought it to my 
immediate attention!) for $8.00.My buddy and I carried it all the way 
uptown to the Port Authority bus station and it sat on my lap all the 
way out to where I lived in New Jersey.I eventually got all the stuff 
to get it on the air,all stock.I had(and still have) the Fair Radio 28V 
10A kit supply to power it with.I actually built the ARC-5 TX,RX 
portable set as described in "Command Sets".It worked.I even rewired an 
ARC-5 tx to plug into the SCR-274N rack.You had to move the screen or 
plate feed to another pin and carefully bend the pins on the connector 
outward so that they would make passable contact.It worked.
That was then and if I could go back in time and do it all over again,I 
would.This is now and I have a respectable collection that will remain 
stock and eventually become working display sets.I hope to have a 
traveling "road show" of this gear and do the West Coast Air Show 
circuit.
 Jay KE6PPF
P.S. You should have seen me jump the time I first fired up an ART-13! 
I thought all hell was breaking loose!


-----Original Message-----
From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 3:33 pm
Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] Re: : History of ham mods; opinions?



Michael, the idea was more like a pseudo-catalog, close enuff to real 
that a non-oldtimer
wouldn't immediately guess for sure that it was (partly) a joke. So 
instead of 200+ pages,
more like about 15. With photos the size of FAIR's ( hi hi ) that would 
cover a lot of
equipment.  Mabye an ad or two for gear you never will encounter, too.  
However, no ads
like in the G&G catalog where the wrong equipment photo accompanied a 
listing.
Maybe the cover photo would be stolen from the Feb. 44 Radio News. I 
like my idea a lot.
I also really dig the old Columbia Electronics surplus catalog. What a 
classic. Maybe a
combination of the best features of both.
 
BTW, i was looking at one of the surplus flyers from around 1947. Who 
would pay $49.95 for
an ARB back then???? On the other hand, $75 for a BC-474, altho big 
bucks for the time,
did include legs, handcrank gen, antenna, whole kit.
 
Here's something i could use a suggestion on: how best to grab photos 
from a large book?
I have a couple Japanese books with some terrific radio and aircraft 
shots. How to
scan them in? Are there any viable hand-scanners (handheld scanners) 
still being sold?
-Hue
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