[Milsurplus] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243

[gl4d21a at juno.com]

My best ham friend asked me to disperse his holdings in the event of his passing.  Which I was happy to agree to.  Unfortunately, when he did become a silent key, his kids put themselves in the same situation which Don described, after screwing around for six months, they found thenselves with a week to clear the house and only then did they give me a call.  This estate was 200 miles away.  There was a lot of radio stuff which I could have saved given a little more time, but the new owners wanted to get started with house renovation ASAP.  People tend to drag their feet when dispersal of the family homestead is involved, and work ends up being rush, rush at the last minute.

A few months after that event, another ham acquaintance became a silent key, and my wife and I volunteered to help with that one after watching the heirs flailing helplessly trying to figure out what was valuable and what wasn't.  I had to dig a Yaesu FT470 and all the accessories out of the garbage can, where the grandson-in-law had thrown that "old worthless CB rig".  I caught the Bird 43 just before the same fate.  Sad.

73,
George
W5VPQ


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Don Merz <n3rht at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>,  Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:14:24 -0700 (PDT)

Helped clean out an estate 2 months ago. The son came in from out of town with 
his son and they had one week to dispose of a house full. First order of 
business: Order a DUMPSTER. 

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