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

[Skip Frolik]

Just some comments .... I for one love "Big/Heavy".

Now that said .... I'm the lone ranger for miles around me.
Yes there "MAY" have been a few "Closet Big/Heavy's" but like
preppers in this community .... all have gone underground.

I use to attend some of the comm activities around here but
every time I'd talk about my interests the surrounding group
would "HISS" ,huddle in the corner of the room and say "Away"
"We Are Legion" or something to that extent .... Hehehe.

Sooooo ..... these days I try to follow up on anything local
to save it from the land fill and I am fortunate to live on
a farm with "DRY" barns so I have some room that others may
not have but so what. Other than my own "Around to it Someday"
bragging the cycle will end with me. I've had no success in
stirring up "TRUE INTEREST" in younger types and I know it
couldn't be my personality .... Hehehe. Have given stuff away
to those that "I Thought" might get the bug but found out
later they only took it thinking they could get rich off of
it at an auction site and when it didn't sell they tossed it.
Oh well .... so it goes.

Seeing the P.A.R. radio the other day reminded me of one such
rescue I made years back .... a "GRAY MARINE" BC-375 conversion.
They somehow wedged an 813 in there modulated by a pair of 838's.
A speech amp chain and 6 channel operation. Pretty sweet !!!!
I was totally taken back when I removed the covers. It's a well
done conversion and their ideas might be useful to back engineer
a BC-375 that has been gutted by the audio crowd. Just a thought.

Anyway there is some "COOL" "Big/Heavy" stuff out there but not
many people that care anymore. Just the way things go. I cringe
at the amount that must be being tossed every day. A few years
back I was scrounging for some pallets behind a warehouse that
was being renovated. A lot of "Stuff" was set out since the
roll-off was full. I went to move a crate (4x2x2) to get to the
pallets and it was like it was bolted to the ground. Taking the
lid off it was chocked full of transformers. Place had had a
radio/tv shop there years back and apparently this had been in
the back somewhere. when time came to clean up it was tossed.
Sad part is even if there had been someone there that knew what
they were it probably wouldn't have mattered. Soooo .... I took
it home. Well actually I unloaded it so we could lift it on to
the trailer and filled it back up .... Hehehe. A crate of TV
power transformers from the 60's is pretty heavy. Fact my wife
said "How can something so small be so heavy" .... hehehe.

Well .... enough rambling. Have fun with what ever your toy is
or as we use to say in the car game .... "Run what You Brung".
All I can say as for "Me an Mine" we do "Big/Heavy".
That hurricane is gonna have to work hard to blow all this away.

Skip
WB4GMQ

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