[Milsurplus] transportating radio gear

[Richard Decker]

Just a " Heads Up " guys. One of the best keep secrets. Try Fastenal. 
They do this every day at LOW Cost! They are not in the
" Transportation " business ( per say ), but will deliver you stuff to 
another fastenal dealer in your destination town if they are going there 
anyway. When they call you to say they have it at its destination YOU go 
pick it up.
You package it, you take it to the fastenal dealer in your town, they 
transport it to the fastenal dealer in the town of destination. The 
receiver of the equipment goes and picks it up. Cheep Prices! Puts all 
the rest to shame.
Rich ( W2OBR )

On 8/20/2015 3:31 PM, Ron Lawrence W4RON wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:33:03 -0400
>> From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>> To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
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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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> 73, Ron W4RON
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