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

[Hue Miller]

Of course, i'll have to go thru years of milsurplus posts to re-read those posts
about an old manual typewriter font, too. 
The old Columbia catalog had class. Some of the photos were actually pretty
good and i liked how they described, quoted actually, for the BC-348, 
"Sensitive and selective superheterodyne receiver", quoting direct from the manual.
Of course, in the 1970s, that quote was, strictly speaking, not true, altho i thought
it was cool for them to just quote it regardless. Another thing i liked was they had
this grading of Command Sets, like NIB, excellent used, then bashed ones ( not
their word but one i will use ) for $4.95    Another idea i thought of was the package
with a ribbon around it - a "grab box" chock full of radio surplus for $9.95
Of course your parents would have a fit when the REA man showed up and wanted
$200 for shipping.
( Didn't someone here have that story? Some heavy metal thing showed up that they
had ordered, and the freight charge was to be collected on delivery?  Why, that 
TDQ was only $12.95! I didn't know it was metal! )

Michael, that thing that would discourage me about a large book, not that i'm even
thinking of doing it anyway, is that "new" finds are always appearing. Look at some
of the rare unusual things that the Ebay tide has brought in. You would almost have
to publish in a 3-ring binder format. You could publish on DVD but then some Ebay
power seller would add your material to his DVD along with tons of shovelware and
sell it for $19.95   Altho even if you publish in paper someone is likely to scan it in
for their shovelware disk. 
Louis Mulstee seems to have done a superlativework in the completeness regard,
at least in the one book of his i bought, the Clandestine Radio book, which i consider
worth more than the $100 i paid for it.  His  effort must have been superhuman.  -Hue