[Milsurplus] Strong Stomach Needed.

[Prince Floyd Petri]

----- Original Message ----- 
I see all the negative comments by Hams and Collectors on this radio.  I am 
not a Ham, but studying to be one.  However, I am a collector.  I will leave 
a positive comment for a change.  There were so many pristine, mint, new and 
excellent WW II radios in the beginning after WW II at such a cheap price 
that one would take this radio based on the cosmedic condition and label it 
junk or a parts radio.  Keeping that in mind that I am giving him the 
benefit of the doubt, this fellow took a beat up parts radio not  worth 
getting all the acessories for and made it work for him.  Obviously he had a 
use for it and is going to use it himself.  A far better end than just 
throwing it out after pulling the tubes.  The video is encouraging for me 
not to disregard my junk.

Floyd

From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "Spike Dennis" <spike.dennis at yahoo.com>
Cc: <jfor at quik.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Strong Stomach Needed.


> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Spike Dennis<spike.dennis at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I'd have left a nasty gram in the comments myself but I'm not a member of 
>> youtube & I have no reason to sign up.
>
> I'm just curious Dennis, not trying to start yet *another* lengthy
> thread on ham mods: Do you think that leaving a nasty gram in response
> to this guy sharing something he was obviously excited about would be
> more or less likely to interest the fellow in learning more about this
> gear and possibly preserving it, or more likely to hack up more out of
> spite?
>
> The reason I ask is because I've seen a similar path taken by some
> towards Collins radio gear after a few knuckleheads who saw themselves
> as smarter than everyone else declared 'how it is' and assured
> everyone that their view was not only the right view, but the only
> view.
>
> Just strikes me as a bad way to move forward, save a hobby that is
> 'dying', preserve more old gear that fewer people have interest in and
> so on.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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