[Milsurplus] [armyradios] Good as gold?

[J. Forster]

Hue,

A couple of other very high-priced items come to mind:

PPN-1 Eureka  > $10,000
PPN-2 Eureka  > $2500
H2S   RADAR   > $20,000

Enigma Crypto >$15,000

That does not meane3very example will bring that money, but I've certainly
seen those numbers.

-John

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> I saw on Epay a WW2 era "spy walkie talkie"  "S-phone" close for some
> $9,500+.
>
> I thought this would be an interesting item to try to get working and
> analyze,
>
> but the tab would take a serious bite out of my hobby money for x years.
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> If you want a look,
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> http://www.ebay.com/itm/WW2-S-Phone-Type-13-MK-IV-/130979554217?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=jYvmqlCsrajQ1xeseJHbFugXAqU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_673wt_1255
>
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> If this link gets broken up, you can look in completed auctions for the
> item number in the above, or its
>
> title
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> WW2 S Phone Type 13 MK IV.
>
> This is a vhf walkie talkie that agents on the ground used to communicate
> with a circling aircraft.
> As it was vhf and short range, the enemy, the German occupying force,
> could not monitor - intercept
> the communications.
>
> So, the S-word is a big exciter. I mean of course, "spy".  "Some" radios
> are worth near gold.
>
> Meanwhile, in another category of high value, i have noticed that battery
> boxes for some German radios,
> namely, a 4-tube field radio regen receiver, Torn.E.b. and a 3-tube walkie
> talkie, Kl.Fu.d., actually bring prices
> higher than the radio. That's right, a box with space for batteries, has a
> higher price than the box with the
> actual radio.  I have seen a rusty ! battery box for the Torn. receiver go
> for hundreds of dollars more than
> the radio itself. Apparently souvenir hunters disposed of the battery
> boxes along the line, or never grabbed
> the battery box in the first place ( the intial looting ) because it
> didn't seem very useful and just ate up
> limited space. What kind of money: i hear the batt box for the Torn.
> receiver is worth about $1000. You read
> that right.
>
> Meanwhile, i haven't seen that other radio categories have escalated that
> much. A year back i was surprised
> when a Grebe CR-18, maybe the first shortwave receiver, or one of the very
> first, failed to bring its expected
> price of around $2000, which is actually not exhorbitant for what those go
> for. The seller finally "parted it out":
> sold it and each plug in coil separately, which is kind of sad.
> -Hue