[Milsurplus] Happy Birthday Boatanchors

[Ray Fantini]

What a bunch of hard core P&M about how bad things are today! With the internet, EBay, personal web pages, YouTube, email reflectors and internet two sites all like minded individuals can come together as never before. The fastest growing area of Ham radio is the Antique or Vintage group of restorers and AM operators. If there was ever some “Golden Age” of mill radio collecting and its not today when was it? I have been doing this stuff for almost forty years now and have never seen the term “Military Radio Collector/ Historian” until I saw Dennis Starks use it back in the nineties and have seen it used quite a bit now days and it appears to me there are many more today then were back then. Be grateful for what we got being that military radio collecting is a small facet of technology history and don’t expect some great respect from the masses. It’s more important to have the respect of your peers. I have been collecting the Digital PDP family of computers and everything that happens here is also taking place in the antique computer world. The best we can do here is what’s going on over there, providing help, giving, trading or selling equipment and building a fraternity or brotherhood on line, but painting a negative picture and preaching doom won’t inspire anyone.
Ray Fantini KA3EKH