[Milsurplus] Managing Yiour Colection, WAS Item 300447369243

[bavarianradio at comcast.net]

 I have been saying for years that our generation will write the epitaph on the gravestone of radio.... This sort of thing goes on every day. The youth of today have no respect or interest in this stuff. The boatanchors I have paid good money for and spent countless hours restoring will someday go into a dumpster.  Our only hope is for museums, although, they too will become vacant halls with no visitors or endowments.  Very sad indeed!! Ross W1EKG
----- gl4d21a at juno.com wrote:

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