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

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

When Charleston Naval Shipyard closed the entire technical library was 
shredded.
That really upset me.
I could see that classified documents should be disposed of properly, 
but, the majority were unclassified.
It was just too much work to look at the front of each manual and place 
the classified ones in one pile and the unclassified ones in another.
The train facilities on base could have used them.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

On 8/11/2018 5:44 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus wrote:
> 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:
>
>
> I think a few folk missed the note, this is part of an estate that the 
> County has a duty to dispose of properly.
>
> Therefore, someone out there on the left coast should just go and make 
> an offer, a reasonable offer to clear the estate.
>
> Otherwise is there an honest fellow out there with sufficient 
> knowledge to evaluate and advise proper value?
>
> Better to assist and get the gear to new and good homes than to see it 
> sent to the junk pile.
>
> R
>
> *From:*milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf 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 - 
> auction or scrap?
>
> Since this is a governmental entity, they may not be allowed to simply 
> donate it to a private radio club. Usually, property that a 
> governmental entity wants to dispose of has to be sold at auction to 
> the highest bidder. The only alternative might be the 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 look to 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 just donate the stuff to a local ham radio club
>
> and let the club sign waivers to get the stuff out of there, let the 
> club dispose of it with a percentage to a local charity.
>
> Maybe pluck tubes from the FGC-1 units ? I don't know how hard or easy 
> it is to get rid of old metal chassis etc. I took
>
> some dead recent electronics to a recycling center yesterday and it's 
> a whole new world, the current recycling rules,
>
> particularly so in the smaller locales, where the recyclers apparently 
> are in more of a fix.
>
> -Hue
>
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Glenn Little                ARRL Technical Specialist   QCWA  LM 28417
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