[Milsurplus] Strong Youtube Stomach

[Rod Hogg]

Man I gotta jump in here.  I have 'torn up' scads of old military gear over
the ages, back when it was 10 cents a pound at salvage yard.  Did I collect
any? NO, do I regret having done so, maybe, a lot was lost am sure, but I
did gain a bit of knowledge about design and operation.  

No way could I have been able to get all the necessary do-dads to make a
complete station of the stuff, that which I got close to I shipped off to
military dealers, made a few bucks. 

Saw tons of stuff bulldozed into pits when they closed down the SAC base
near my hometown and they deactivated the missile silos and NIKE bases,
shame, lots of gear got burned and buried. 

We tend to get TOO exacting in the hobby of collecting and yet rant and rave
about the "audiofools", they have a hobby too.  Some of us just like to see
if we can duplicate a little of the era, yet be able to do so affordable.
My take on it.    (I have a bunch of old military gear, always on the
lookout for more, none is really 'collector' quality by some standards, but
am not -married- to it

Live and let live.  I bought it, I can tear it up, no law I know of says I
can't.  (FCC rules on demolishing radio equipment I don't think applies
here.)  

Rod
KØEQH


-----Original Message-----
From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Spike Dennis
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:04 PM
To: Ray Fantini
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Strong Youtube Stomach


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?

KB0SFP
Monitor(all USB): 
3996, 5403.5, 7296, 14342.5, 18157.5



----- 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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