[Milsurplus] ARB

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Gotta stand with Bob on this one.

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:19 PM, MillerKE6F at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
>    There is certainly room at the table for those who  want to  
> restore the
> artifacts of WWII and other incarnations of military  materiel.  I  
> support
> both sides of the table on this count.  But  please do not discount  
> the hams
> who used this stuff as a means to an end when  the marketplace was
> literally overflowing with this gear.  To discount that  history is  
> certainly not in
> keeping with the spirit of the technology past and  the clever use  
> of the
> gear in it's afterlife.  I think it was far better to  have the hams  
> gather
> up this stuff in years following WWII than to have it  shredded into  
> material
> for beer cans and aluminum siding.  And that is  context from which  
> I refer
> to as the Ham's contribution to the preservation of  the equipment.
>
>    And to have a list member dismiss the  adaptations that the hams  
> made
> of this equipment is somewhat short sighted and  comes off as being  
> rather
> smug at best.   I can't argue that a lot of  the gear that was  
> produced for
> the war effort  was clever, however, I can  also assert that some of  
> the stuff
> was pure junk and the product of getting war  materiel out the door as
> quickly as possible to take the battle to the axis  powers.  Much of  
> the
> equipment that went into this heroic effort was  certainly dated and  
> lacked the
> engineering and procurement oversight we see  in equipment that came  
> to the
> fore in the late 40s.
>
>    But let's not get another tempest in a teapot going  on this  
> topic as
> it's been raked over the coals many times with neither side  willing  
> to give
> an inch.  However, lets all try to be less pompous about  the topic  
> and give
> to those hams who were and remain the real preservers of the  cited
> equipment's history be it by design or simple luck.  I've never   
> heard a ham fault
> those who want to preserve these artifacts as military  history, but  
> I do
> bristle when I read drivel about how hams are the "Destroyers  of  
> Hallowed
> Equipment."
>
>    73
>
>    Bob, KE6F
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