[Milsurplus] [RCA] SRR-13 Article

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I didn't mean that everyone had to have an interest in everything in order 
to participate in the discussion.  But your comment could be read to mean 
that nothing that you weren't personally interested in is a valid example.  
This is after all the Milsurplus list.  I have no interest in any of the 
civilian sets except for some test equipment but that doesn't mean that some of 
them couldn't be valid examples for the subject at hand.

How many were made is really immaterial to the scarcety subject.  The 
criteria is only how many survive in.  For an example, I cite the PE-163-B.  
About the same number of them were built as were the PE-163-C.  And on the face 
of it, they aren't rare.  But the PE-163-B as-built would operate the 
SCR-284 and AN/TRC-2.  There was an MWO that removed capability of operating 
anything but SCR-694-C and AN/GRC-9 (and probably AN/GRC-109).  All that I have 
ever seen or heard of have had the MWO applied.  So the PE-163-B that isn't 
really a PE-163-C is rare to unobtanium.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 08/05/2016 02:34:36 AM Central Daylight Time, 
antqradio at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> Of course interest is material to the subject!  Do you buy items that  
> you have no interest in?  Of course not.  You ignore items that do not 
> interest you and you toss things you have that no longer hold your interest.  If 
> you have no interest, then you don't learn about what is rare and what is 
> common.  What has value to you and what doesn't.  
> 
> 
> All I was saying is I had no idea what the value or scarcity  was of the 
> items quoted since I have no interest in them.  But I did ask about other 
> item that I do have an an interest in but that answer was avoided.
> 
> 
> Yes, it is all a numbers game.  How many built and how many survive.  That 
> is what I was trying to get Hue to admit to since he was not providing 
> examples. BTW, wasn't Dave's post about eBay seller hype?
> Jim
> 
> 
> From: "WA5CAB at cs.com" <WA5CAB at cs.com>
> To: antqradio at sbcglobal.net 
> Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 12:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [RCA] SRR-13 Article
> 
> 
> Someone (Dave S??) years ago posted a list of numeric definitions of terms 
> such as commone, scarce, rare, etc. based upon (as best I recall) number 
> of known survivors.  I don't recall whether it was his own work or a copy of 
> a list found in some other venue.  
> 
> 
> Interest or lack thereof is immaterial to the subject.
> 
> 
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