[Milsurplus] Scrounging, Military, for Parts, Spare*

[Hue Miller]

> From: <boeing377 at aol.com>
> To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:25 PM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] military scrounging for military spares in
> civiliansupply channels.
>
>> As a kid scrounging surplus radio stuff from stores on SF's famous Radio
>> Row in the mid 1960s, several times I saw Navy guys form Treasure Island
>> and Alameda NAS coming in to Standard Surplus to buy modules for radios
>> currently in use but without any spares available in military channels.
>> Go figure. >> 73, >> Mark  >> AF6IM

I was just the other nite looking at some "Electron" magazines of the US 
Navy,
this magazine is the successor to "Radio and Sound Bulletin", and I saw a 
couple
items about scrounging. One I recall was an article on keeping old sets 
around
to cannibalize for parts. The other was a notice that SF was sending out
EIGHT ARC-1 radios in partial condition to 8 Navy activities for spare 
parts.
This was 1951.

Electron pretty interesting altho mostly Radar and next, Sonar. Hardly
anything on radio. Did have a nice photo of the Haiku TH Alexanderson
Alternator VLF transmitter ca. WW2, also an article on Bainbridge Island
near Seattle Navy radio station - I had thought it was only an intercept
point for Pacific traffic, but it was the full deal, even a 58 kc/s LF 
transmitter
to serve the North Pacific. Someday "we" ought to maybe scan in
R&SB and Electron. I don't know when R&SB started. I could figure
out when Electron started and ended as I have the full run. Ended
about '53, if I recall.   -Hue Miller
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