[Milsurplus] Boatanchor Ennui: Is He Wrong?

[Peter Gottlieb]

Of course most of it is going to the landfill or scrap reclamation. That's the fate of 99.9% of everything of similar specialty that gets collected. 

Sure a project will get completed here and there, but it's the exception. 

On the other hand, the number of people doing these kinds of projects or care about old military radios is continuing to decline, so I guess, enjoy it while you're still alive, even if your particular enjoyment is simply possessing a stockpile of possible projects. 


Peter

> On Jul 22, 2016, at 2:12 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> I was talking with a "grumble buddy" the other day
> concerning our "boatanchor radio" hobby and its future.
> 
> "Dave, for every twenty guys with a garage or storage
> locker full of crap, there's maybe *one* who has heated
> a soldering iron and actually finished a project and got it
> on the air in the last 10 years.   They all have the "' 'round-Tuit" disease
> and it's going to stay that way until their stuff goes to the dump."
> 
> I told him he was being cynical- that there were at least twice that many guys who actually finished
> a project and got it on the air.  
> What's your perspective?
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