[Milsurplus] Is "Big/Heavy" Mil-Radio Dead?

[W2HX]

I didn’t get the idea that he was having trouble shipping it. I got the impression he was having trouble finding a buyer. I am sure greyhound would be a good solution if only there was someone willing to buy it.


73 Eugene W2HX

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Meir Ben-Dror WF2U
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:34 PM
To: David Stinson; ARC-5; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Is "Big/Heavy" Mil-Radio Dead?

Davie,

Why don’t you try Greyhound?  Their prices are still reasonable for radio-size and weight freight. They don’t treat freight harshly.
The downside is that shipments go to the recipient’s nearest full service Greyhound depot, and the freight has to be picked up from there. Likewise, the shipment has to be dropped off at the nearest full-service depot – not just at a stop.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

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From: David Stinson<mailto:arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:11 PM
To: ARC-5<mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net<mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Is "Big/Heavy" Mil-Radio Dead?

It has always been harder to "pass along" big,
heavy
military radios.  However, with the obscene
increases
in shipping costs and the rapid aging of the
mil-radio
community (with its decrease in disposable
income),
have we reached a "tipping point" where things
like ARC-2, RAK/RAL, the big Nationals and about
any other
set that comes in over 30 lbs will become almost
impossible
to move?

I have a nice, working/original (save one small
capacitor value increase) AN/ARC-2A with dyno and
30+ watts out (with 27V A+).  Not the slightest
interest
within a couple of hundred miles.  Have a solid
wooden
shipping crate for it, but is anyone really so
interested
as to pay the "king's ransom" needed to ship it?
And I've noted, on some of the local "trader"
nets,
that "big heavy" everything is getting harder
to "re-home."  The last several hamfests I've
attended, most everything "heavyweight" went
back home with the owner, despite attractive
pricing in some cases.

Is "big/heavy" over?  Will we be forced to send
the heavyweights to the scrap yard?
Your thoughts?

GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S

"You're always working at the margins
of what you don't understand.
That's the only exhilarating place to be.
To just illustrate what you already know
is condescending and a waste of your time."
--Emmet Godwin--



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