[Milsurplus] [ARC5] On Theft

[Michael Tauson]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Michael St. Angelo
<mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:
> There isn't a big market for Ham radio equipment; it's mostly attractive to
> other Hams. There's even less of  a market for boatanchor electronics except
> for collectors.

Yep.  Those of us who love big iron are rare.

> Also, since it's expensive to ship hardware from Hawaii it's still being
> used locally.

Okay, here's the part some may have missed.  What was stolen was
parts, not complete equipment.  These included the RF guts of a Viking
II; a DX-100 VFO; parts from a homebrew transmitter designed around
the PTO from a Collins 32V3; all of the tuned circuit components for
the 1920s-1930s transmitters; and a good number of the fixed
transmitting micas, resistors, a couple crystals and some other bits
for those same transmitters.

Also missing is a box of wood samples, a bottle of Tylenol which
really puzzles me, and, on third look, a couple pairs of tweezers &
some gravers set out for sharpening and a couple other tools with a
combined street value of squat.

To the best of my knowledge, I am the only boatanchor type on the
entire island of Oahu - possibly the entire state of Hawaii.  (I'm not
counting riceboxes or anything of that order.  They're not Iron even
if they are partially hollow state.)  I'm the guy who'd pass the
latest & greatest to drool over an R-388 or R-390(A) ... and be quite
alone in doing so.  I'm the guy a "Free to good home although needs
work" HT-32 followed home after everyone else just pointed & laughed
at the antique.  (That was a trip getting up to the apartment.
Getting it back down again is going to be even more entertaining.)
I'm the guy with SMD experience in building microbots who's far, far
happier with the warm glow of vacuum tubes.

And, right now, I'm the guy who's totally baffled by why anyone would
steal boxes clearly marked with the contents (including the one with
the wood samples), some tools worthless to anyone else and a bottle of
Tylenol.

BEst regards,

Michael, WH7HG
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