[Milsurplus] Strong Youtube Stomach

[Spike Dennis]

I tend to agree with Ray that it's better to have something operational, & in use, & that it's ham history is significant, HOWEVER!
The guy should have pointed out the condition hat it was received in, & that such an undertaking should never be considered on an unmodified or restorable example. I don't think he did that. I had seen enough in the first few seconds & turned it off.

As yet, nobody has bothered to include this detail in the text comments either, so who is it at fault?

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----- Original Message ----
> From: Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:47:13 PM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Strong Youtube Stomach
> 
> If you look at "repairguy000" YouTube directory you can see his first video 
> where he bought the ARB on EBay for $57 The URL is: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks3009Aq4pE 
> It is not a pristine example of an ARB with the Ham installed AC power supply, 
> speaker and output transformer. Also it has the connectors missing and a gain 
> control installed on the front.. I have said it before and will say it again; the 
> Ham radio history is just as valid as military service history. Especially in 
> the case of something like a ARB where most of us alive today never saw one in 
> military use or unmodified condition. I have seen quite a few all modified by 
> Hams and if it were not for the fact that the ARB were as common as dirt in the 
> late forties and fifties and used as a entry radio into ham radio  few of them 
> would be around today. It was the radio that if you did not have much money you 
> would buy, use some  old junk radio and TV parts to build the AC supply and 
> along with your rock bound 6L6 transmitter that got you on the air. I would 
> propose that most existing ARB receivers have more hours of operation as SWL and 
> Novice receivers then in military service. Co
> uple year's back I built up a BC-348 that was a copy of my first receiver that I 
> used for SWL and later Ham service. This BC-348Q is not the receiver I had back 
> in the seventies as a teenager but what the BC-348Q I had back then should have 
> been, and I regard that example of what the hams of the fifties and sixties 
> used, and what I used in the seventies just as relevant to history as the 
> perfect examples that many collectors have from when it was in military service. 
> Not as an equal monetary value but as equal worth, at least in my opinion. But 
> we are a diverse group and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Here is a 
> link to my ham hack job at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRez8euQU4 
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
> 
> 
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