[Milsurplus] [ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

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Indeed true and we have saved some great   examples of  it although I 
sometimes kringe when I see what is now a scarce  artifact you have to remember 
at the time  there was so much of this stuff  around  it many times  went  
for metal reclamation.
 
We also have a great collection of the  conversion manuals and some  
folders  of notes and  clippings too...
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
 

 
In a message dated 9/14/2010 12:55:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jfor at quik.com writes:

Modifying surplus radios is a part of the mil surplus radio history  and
> should also be  preserved.



 
 
In a message dated 9/14/2010 12:41:50 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
mstangelo at comcast.net writes:

Stock  car racing was an outgrowth of the prohibition era when bootleggers 
souped up  "stock" cars to use them for the unintended purposes such as 
outrunning the  revenue agents andeventually for racing.

This is like the Ham radio  expermenters in the '40's and '50's who soupled 
up the surplus radios to use  them for a different purpose.

Modifying surplus radios is a part of the  mil surplus radio history and 
should also be preserved.

Mike  N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: gordon white  <gewhite at crosslink.net>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio  equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Cc:  milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:37:09 -0000  (UTC)
Subject: Re: [ARC5] responsibility to our posterity

I  am also involved woth a group that owns old racing  cars, going 
back a hundred years. Some are indeed elegant pieces of  machinery, like 
front-wheel drive, supercharged Miller Indianapolis cars  of the 1920s. 
Most of us feel an obligation to treat them tenderly (though  we drive 
them!) and restore them correctly. But some are very  junky-looking 1950s 
modified stock cars. Frankly, I like the idea that  even those are 
preserved and restored.
- Gordon  White
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