[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Big/Heavy is Over
Bill Cromwell
wrcromwell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 11:41:44 EDT 2018
Hi Don,
In your original reply you didn't mention anything about them begging
for free. You only said that the club has nothing to offer them.
If they are interested in grandpa's old radio that is your 'foot in the
door'. next time one of them asks send them to me. I'll talk to them
about it and they might be able to ship 'grandpa's radio' here. So now
you DO have a resource.
On 09/17/2018 11:17 AM, Don Merz via Milsurplus wrote:
> We have lots of resources to offer them and we do so--the best in the
> besiness. But then they discover the unfortunate fact that money will be
> involved. And suddenly Grandpap's radio looks fine right there on the shelf.
>
> But no, the club as a rule does not offer repair services for free as
> you seem to be suggesting. That would be suicidal.
>
> Don
>
>
> On Monday, September 17, 2018, 11:12:22 AM EDT, <mkdorney at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> So you need to do a little research into finding people who fix old
> radios in or around Pittsburgh. Who says it has to be a member of your
> club? There are no businesses in or around Pittsburgh that repair old
> radios? If a common request you get at displays is "do you have
> someone who can fix the old radio my Grandpap used to listen to?" and
> you have no answer, of course those people will have no further interest
> in your club. You are showing you have nothing to offer them. You're
> not going to get /all/ those people to join your club, but you'll get
> /none/ of them if you can't even steer those folks in the right direction.
>
> Mark D.
>
> In a message dated 9/17/2018 10:54:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> arc5 at mailman.qth.net writes:
>
>
> I'm current President of Pittsburgh Antique Radio Society and we too
> set up"recruiting" displays of radios and promo materials of stuff
> we are doing. This used to be a good tool for us. We'd get 3-4
> signups at every hamfest. Lately we are down to one or none. And
> membership dropped to 137 from 155 last year.
>
> I blame it all on the President...
>
> ....and a lack of interest. It's just not there. The most common
> request we get is "do you have someone who can fix the old radio my
> Grandpap used to listen to?" It's discouraging. And getting
> volunteers from within the membership to do stuff ain't no picnic
> neither.
>
> Ah well, I guess life moves on.
> Don Merz, N3RHT
>
>
> On Monday, September 17, 2018, 8:44:57 AM EDT, David Stinson
> <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
> (Warm-up your "I'm Offended!"; you're about to need it.)
>
> One of the reasons I stopped doing displays of mil-radio equipment
> at major hamfests is lack of any meaningful interest. It's a lot of
> work getting a display together to go the whole 'fest with two or
> three questions, if you're lucky, and no one spending more then 30
> seconds looking. That, more than anything else, tells me "the bells
> are tolling." I now work on my "goodies" for my own enjoyment and
> accept that "all good things..." I also shelved a book which would
> have been titled: "The Voice of Eagles." Creating a book is a
> massive effort and hardly worth it when maybe 10 people are going to
> read it.
>
> I feel confident that estimate is correct, because over the years,
> in several things I have written (and been told were useful; thank
> you kindly to those who said so), I've included an occasional
> "easter egg:" an obvious error included just to see if anyone is
> actually paying attention. One of them is so in-your-face, I
> included it just to make the point. Twenty years ago, a dozen
> people would have noted the error. To this day, not ONE of these
> "easter eggs" has been commented upon; not even once. That tells me
> all I need to know about the actual level of interest in the general
> community.
>
> Lots of people talk about what they're going to do "when they get
> around to it." Few ever do anything significant at all. And if
> those of us who claim a passion for these historic items won't take
> the time to heat a soldering iron, isn't it arrogant to assume we
> can convince a young person to do so?
>
> Think I will still write about the work- writers are a bit egoist
> and compulsive about their vice ;-).
> But our community is deep in its twilight. "Gather ye rose buds
> while ye may."
>
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