[Milsurplus] Use of radio "relics"

[wf2u at ws19ops.com]

I totally agree as well, and this is how I  
collect/maintain/restore/use surplus.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC


Quoting "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>:

> Amen,
> -John
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>> Ray wrote:
>>
>>> I challenge anyone to prove how my use of the radio can be improved
>>> by using original non regulated and often difficult to maintain
>>> dynamotors...[I] see no advantage to the noise, ware and vibration
>>> of using all original systems.
>>
>> I think the approach that one takes depends on one's outlook and
>> purpose for acquiring this gear.
>>
>> If the purpose is communicate or play ham radio, the cheapest
>> ham rig made any time in the last 50 years will likely run circles
>> around WWII stuff, generally by orders of magnitude overall.  (And
>> yes, using or listening to AM today illustrates why SSB easily won
>> out for effective voice communication needs.)
>>
>> If the purpose is demonstrate and honor the technology and engineering
>> used to produce the gear, with the military operators who used it,
>> then I want the set operating in exactly the same configuration
>> as the military operator used it, without any improvements of even
>> easy fixed minor design flaws.  Otherwise, one looses what the
>> military operator had to confront.
>>
>> Generally, I don't operate any gear that pre-dates the late 1950s.
>> I got tired of hearing the sound of a dynamotor slowing down
>> after yet another capacitor gave of the ghost.  Like most, I did
>> modify and use some of this stuff 45 years ago, but that was when
>> it was common and provided capability that I didn't otherwise possess.
>> No one can accurately claim that now.  Realistically, operating
>> 65-year-old gear today ultimately requires destroying its original
>> internal configuration (i.e., replacing many of the components with
>> **modern** equivalents).  I don't ask anyone here to accept *my*
>> definition in this context, but a set that has been re-capped and
>> re-resistor'd is IMHO no longer in its original configuration.
>> If my estate doesn't dump everything in a landfill, those taking
>> possession of almost any part of my collection will get an item
>> that has been un-altered since the military released it.
>>
>> That's just my personal outlook.  At odds with that outlook, though,
>> I really enjoy seeing operating displays of vintage gear in total
>> *original* configuration except for the necessary capacitor, resistor,
>> tube, and vibrator replacement (but dynamotor replacement only if the
>> military sets used such replacements...the AN/GRC-19 and the A.R.C.
>> Type 12 come to mind).  I love those YouTube videos, and it is a
>> treat to come across these sets on the air.  I know it took a lot of
>> work to get there.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
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