[Milsurplus] [ARC5] On being a Completeist ... was ATCDynamotorOffered

[Mike Hanz]

On 8/24/2011 6:23 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Mike Hanz<aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>  wrote:
>> Sob...no one reads my web pages any more... :'(

Thank you, Todd, but with apologies I must emphasize that this medium 
without images is an imperfect one.  I was attempting a *very* 
tongue-in-cheek comment to start my reply off in a humorous vein, and it 
didn't quite meet the mark that I was striving to achieve.  My fault - I 
wasn't really bemoaning traffic on the website.  If it had been 
possible, I would have included an appropriate .gif emoticon that would 
have been self-explanatory, but subtle humor doesn't lend itself to 
ascii e-mail. :-(

> I credit your pages entirely with my interest in
> the RAX group and now the ATC to mate them up with.
> Three dynamotors and a couple other
> trinkets, and I'll have them up and running!

You have done incredibly well to acquire that much of the set.  I often 
wonder what happened to all the RAX dynamotors...they certainly are 
scarce commodities.

> And along with the RAX stuff, your pages have answered endless
> questions on ARC-5 and other matters, like identifying oddball items
> that show up here. Or how clean, unmodified gear is supposed to look.

It's all smoke and mirrors....or at least that's my story, and I'm  
stickin' to it. :-)

> You and a handful of others are responsible for many others being able to get
> their heads around the intricacies and unknowns of this old stuff.

Emphasis on the *others*.  None of us exist in a vacuum, and the amount 
of help and encouragement I have received over the brief twenty years 
since I became interested in this stuff cannot be measured.  It is 
partially why I do what I do.  I learn something new every day from 
intelligent folks like yourself who ask, "What about this thingie I just 
found?" or make thoughtful posts with rich detail and obvious research - 
more often than not about something that I have never seen before.  I 
guess I get the same thrill vicariously that y'all do from such 
discoveries.  To name all my 'mentors' would take several pages, but you 
know them all from their positive contributions to these forums.

Very 73,
Mike  KC4TOS