[Milsurplus] Display at Aug WW II Lecture Hershey PA

[Bruce MacMillan]

Having done displays at many hamfests I have noticed two types of 
people. There are those that walk by as if they are looking at a shelf 
at Walmart and those that share your passion for the equipment.

I did a display recently at a reenactment event and changed how I 
presented it. It was a display of SOE & OSS equipment like the B2 
suitcase set, SSTR1 xmtr/rcvr, MCR1 receiver & RBZ Special. I didn't 
want to just put sets on the table. I included info & photos of agents 
who actually used the stuff as well as ephemera like silk maps, code 
sheets, etc. People became more interested and I had far more 
interaction than before because there was a human element they could 
relate to.

Bruce
M0SOE

On 18/09/2018 04:05, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>
> It would seem that lectures like I attended or re-enactment events are 
> the venues to demo our military radios.    Perhaps we need to consider 
> our military radios as historical artifacts that utilize amateur 
> radio, as opposed to demoing amateur radio using military radios.   
> Just a thought.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
>
>



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