[Milsurplus] How I Use an LM

[J. Forster]

Well said.

-John

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>> I want to talk about history. The history of any item is not just the
>> history of what occurred at just one point of time in an items
>> existence...
>
> Very true.  One must differentiate between the historically significant
> history
> of an item, versus its subsequent insignificant history by the use of
> hobbyists.
> This applies not only to radios, but to weapons, vehicles, and other
> military
> items whose honorable halcyon days are behind them after the military
> releases
> surplus gear to civilian users, unless those later users preserve the item
> for
> use EXACTLY as the military used it.
>
> Generally speaking, no one wants a sporterized M1903 Springfield rifle or
> a GPW
> jeep that someone has hot-rodded (even just adding modern running lights).
>  Works
> addressing the history of such items will never waste words on what
> civilian
> hobbyists did to the gear.  Likewise, why should radio gear in civilian
> hobbyist
> use be accorded any reverence or relevance?  I would discard any work
> about US
> military gear that wasted space describing what hams did with it.  Total
> nonsense.
>
> Many hams accord their own selves some great achievement when they use
> military
> gear, and they seek acknowledgement of their personal technical
> achievement and
> importance.
>
> This ex-military ham of 44 years sees nothing there.  For at least fifty
> years
> there's been no justification for actual use of this old military gear.
>
> Do what you want with your property, but don't expect accords of glory
> from it.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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