[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Is "Big/Heavy" Mil-Radio Dead?
Nick England
navy.radio at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 14:00:07 EDT 2018
There's also the Dayton BA Trans-shipment technique - find a local ham who
has some extra room and is going to Dayton (and would like a little gas
money) - then find a buyer (or buyer's' friend) who is going to Dayton. If
necessary, relay via another hamfest handoff. It isn't "overnight
shipping" but I have helped heavy metal move to/from NC/SC/GA to/from OH,
TX, WI, RI, etc. that way. Rare that there is any route towards the Left
Coast though.
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 1:11 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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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