[Milsurplus] Japanese Aircraft Communications

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Take a look at how much space is taken up by a collection of gear. Look at yours or mine, or anybody else’s collection. It
spills over here / there / everywhere. All those with stuff both at home and off site raise hands? (yup, my hand is up). The 
off site stuff isn’t getting used on a regular basis :)

Now take a look at the average size of a US house in comparison to a home in Japan or China …… hmmmm …. where
would you *put* the stuff? The simple answer is that it’s not in your home where you can use it. It’s stored at some sort
of club facility (warehouse) that has the room. It doesn’t take very long visiting people in either country to come back with
a real appreciation of just how big our houses actually are.

Is that the whole story? Of course not. It’s simply one of many pressures that drive them in one direction while we go in
another direction 

Bob


> On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> Interesting point. I have never, btw, seen any publicity about any reenactor type thing going on in Japan. I mean as far as militaria.
> Yes, some Japanese seem happy to import surplused California Highway Patrol vehicles and paraphernalia from the USA, then to
> don CHP uniforms and parade around. Or even to buy USA WW2 flyer jackets ( personalized ones with painted designs ) and to
> parade around at shows with those on. But maybe it’s due to a legacy of antipathy to militarism still, as the result of the limited-
> military constitution designed for them during the occupation.
> I have seen some photos on Japanese website of a WW2 piece taken down to every last screw and nut, cleaned up, repainted,
> restored, but as far as actually operating the equipment, that seems to be out of the question.
> China, it seems, is even more so.
> Is it that those countries, with civilization older than our young country, are somehow totally fascinated by the flash-bam-pow
> of new, new, new gizmos?
> -H 
>  
>  
> >I understand that most of the WWII gear is very rare these days. In any case, I am sure that there aren't many Japanese hams who use the stuff on the air like some of us do with WWII U.S. gear.
> Ken W7EKB
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