[Milsurplus] RAX rcvr..message from the past

Al Klase ark at ar88.net
Thu Dec 31 15:15:07 EST 2020


Dave,

Some years back we took a 1920's three dial as a donation at the Radio 
technology Museum.  Tucked inside was a brow paper package package 
containing $10,000.  The old guy stashed it in his radio and checked 
out.  Of course we returned it to the family.

Al

On 12/31/2020 2:27 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> I adore finding inscriptions like that inside radios.
> Have found several.  And left a few myself.
>
> Coolest thing I ever found in a radio:
> An ART-13 that came from the barn of a
> "Third of the First" Intel officer who was
> on Guadalcanal:  A complete-less explosives
> WWII Japanese hand grenade.
>
> What's the coolest thing you've found in a radio?
>
> 73 Dave S.
>
> On 12/31/2020 1:16 PM, Paul Thekan wrote:
>> Working on undoing some messy ham mods on a LF RAX rcvr when I 
>> removed the top cover of the parts donor set to see this scrawled on 
>> top of one of the IF cans.
>>
>>  "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country"
>>
>>  I'm presuming this was written during
>> WW2.
>

-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/milsurplus/attachments/20201231/37382f30/attachment.html>


More information about the Milsurplus mailing list