[Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auction or scrap?

Sat Aug 11 17:44:02 EDT 2018

 Here's why I made the point about legal requirements for disposition. Just before I retired from the county prosecutor's office, the local law library (run by the state judiciary) was being closed. We could have used some of the hard-to-find out-of-print books from that library and would have gladly given them a new home. The head judge, however, was a brainless bureaucrat. He was so paranoid about violating state bidding laws that he had all those books put in a dumpster rather than let us put them to good use. He even refused to give us a heads-up on when they were going into the dumpster so we could just coincidentally happen by and "find" them. It still pisses me off. 

                            Joe Connor

    On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 5:30:09 PM EDT, Robert Meadows <rpmeadow at bellsouth.net> wrote:  

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I think a few folk missed the note, this is part of an estatethat the County has a duty to dispose of properly.

Therefore, someone out there on the left coast should just goand make an offer, a reasonable offer to clear the estate.

Otherwise is there an honest fellow out there with sufficientknowledge to evaluate and advise proper value?  

Better to assist and get the gear to new and good homes than tosee it sent to the junk pile.  

R

From:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] OnBehalf Of Joe Connor via Milsurplus
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 4:31 PM
To: Military Surplus Mail List; Hubert Miller
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Military Radios - LA County Estate - auctionor scrap?

Since this is agovernmental entity, they may not be allowed to simply donate it to a privateradio club. Usually, property that a governmental entity wants to dispose ofhas to be sold at auction to the highest bidder. The only alternative might bethe scrap heap. Before anyone tells this guy an auction wouldn't be worth it,we should probably know what the alternative (if any) to an auction is.

                          Joe Connor

On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 4:00:21 PM EDT, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>wrote: 

Considering the amount of chaff to wheat there, it doesn't lookto me like an auction would be worth their time at all. 
The HF receivers don't look too bad and deserve to survive. They should justdonate the stuff to a local ham radio club

and let the club sign waivers to get the stuff out of there, letthe club dispose of it with a percentage to a local charity. 

Maybe pluck tubes from the FGC-1 units ? I don't know how hardor easy it is to get rid of old metal chassis etc. I took 

some dead recent electronics to a recycling center yesterday andit's a whole new world, the current recycling rules,

particularly so in the smaller locales, where the recyclersapparently are in more of a fix.

-Hue 

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