[Milsurplus] APR-4Y from Hamvention

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue May 22 00:13:46 EDT 2018


You OWE your friend. If he likes Scotch, I would STRONGLY suggest you get him a bottle 
of Lagavulin. :-)

Ken W7EKB


On 22 May 2018 at 0:04, Jeff Kruth via Milsurplus wrote:

> 
> As the radio dude Paul Harvey used to say: And now here is the rest of the story!  
> I was a bit disappointed that I had missed on on the R-444/APR-4Y at Xenia with 
> the 4 band tuner head. I asked around there and on here, and a few other places 
> where it got to.  Today I found out: I went to work and walked into my lab. There it 
> was on one of my carts!  It turns out my buddy Bob, saw it and said "this looks 
> like Jeff". he asked the guy how much and was told $20, so he bought it & hid it in 
> his truck to bring it back as a gift to surprise me! He succeeded. Not every 
> surplus tale has an ending like this!  The unit has a Hallicrafters property tag on it, 
> making it a little bit more unusual. The tuner is jammed, needing a bit of TLC, but 
> the radio M/F looks great, even has a power connector.  I am happy as hell!  73, 
> Jeff Kruth, WA3ZKR
> 



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