[Milsurplus] RAK question
Hubert Miller
Kargo_cult at msn.com
Mon Dec 25 23:17:35 EST 2017
PSARA ( Puget Sound Antique Radio Association ) had from the 1970s til this year a meeting place and museum on the upper floor of a former
grade school, an old classic brick building, in north Seattle at 175th Street. The museum had a few things interesting to civilians ( non radio
collectors ), some hokey things, and some things where the owners apparently needed a place to just store it and weren't quite ready to dipose
of the item. The city had some kind of social help agency on the first floor. This year PSARA lost use of the building; the city had plans for using
the space, and the PSARA had to vacate. Thus, the auction I attended in Lynnwood WA mid-year, the auction where I got the Northern Radio
never-even-used early boat radio, for the minimum bid of $12, and I also got a swell Boy Scout kit radio, in another category that lights my
filaments. Anyway, to the point: this museum had a model of the Navy's Jim Creek VLF station. It was assembled on a board, about 24 x 36
inches, and was 3 dimensional, I mean it had the terrain replicated, and the antenna faithfully replicated as a wire from mountain peak to
peak. I don't think the scale displayed any vehicles, but it had the generating plant, other buildings, and on. Pretty involved job for someone
to make. Unfortunately for some reason I never paid much attention to it, back then. I would sure like to have another look at it now. Perhaps
as we mature our ability to focus attention, or retain interesting material, is improved, I don't know. I did not see this item at the auction; I would
have recorded the price if I had. So I'm wondering who ended up with it. I think I'll ask my contacts up there in the area what became of it. I would
like to get some photos for my own archive and also for Show & Tell here on the Annals of VLF.
-Hue
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