[Milsurplus] ARB Modifications

[Bill Cromwell]

I for one appreciated the Viet Nam era radios. Several times they were
used to call in the cavalry!

73,

Bill  KU8H


On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 13:39 -0400, Bruce Gentry wrote:

> 
> I think there were very powerful social issues involved in many surplus 
> radio "conversions". When I was in high school forty five years ago,  my 
> parents found military radios  disturbing and did not want them in the 
> house.  I can understand a veteran B-24 radio operator not wanting to 
> have a BC-348 in his home. As an intermediate accomodation, I feel many 
> of them wanted to disguise or customize the set to make it less of a 
> reminder of the bad. I have seen many  Navy RAS receivers, and have one, 
> but all of the nomeclature plates have been removed and many were 
> painted other colors. Likewise for the thousands of red, bright green, 
> or white painted BC-348s that were and still are around.  I found the 
> rigs very interesting because of their quality, availability, and 
> frequently low price. I know for a fact the two bushel baskets of ARC-5s 
> I got for the taking in 1967 was because the owner and his family did 
> not want "that creepy war stuff" around their house anymore.  For those 
> of us born from 1940 onward, the radios interest us for other reasons 
> and usually don't have the emotional baggage attached to them. I am 
> curious as well- how many Korea and Vietnam veterans shun military 
> radios of their wars?  I have not had a veteran regard a PRC-6,10,25, or 
> 77 with revulsion yet, but will understand if they do.
> 
>    Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY