[Milsurplus] transportating radio gear

[Ron Lawrence W4RON]

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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:33:03 -0400
> From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
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> Railway Express no longer exists unfortunately. Sigh.
> 
> Anyone who wants to get into the freight business is welcome to do so - if
> you can offer a better service than UPS or FedEx the world will beat a path
> to your door and you'll deserve your $5M salary. Maybe...


Some of our group have been discussing this for a while and I have an idea.
What we need is a Yahoo group dedicated to helping radio guys move radio gear.
There are a lot of people in the country that travel everyday, all you'd
need to do is post a message to the group stating what you have and where it
needs to go. Hopefully someone in the group who is also a radio guy and knows
how to handle radio equipment will reply, then all you need to do is get 
together and hand off the radio.

This will work, I have a very rare Clough-Brengle transmitter in my collection
that came to me from TX, it took 4 hops but it made it here in less
than a week. A guy with the TX antique radio club picked it up from the
estate I bought it from, he took it to the upcoming TX radio meet. A friend
of mine who lives in TN picked it up at the TX meet and carried it home
to TN. The son of another guy I know was traveling form Indy to Charlotte
and went through the town where the transmitter was waiting. He picked it
up and brought it me. Even though it was packed so well it would have
survived a ride on a 19th century wagon train, but it had ridden the 
entire way on the backseat of cars. It arrived in perfect condition.

We just need to have enough people who travel regularly join the group
and be willing to help get our radio equipment to it's new homes.


cheers

LLAP

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