[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Estate Mystery

[Paul Thekan]

This belonged to Dave Ross N7EPI SK
 A lot of his stuff...and he had a lot..like the TRC-75 and TSC-15 have
been sold off but there was a lot left that I heard about but thats now
been a couple of years back.
Property must have sold and probably stuff left in the big shop bldg. No
family that I know of fighting about selling his estate and who gets what.
 Anyway knew Dave for many years and before he started having health issues
was a regular attendee at our MRCG Meet every year.
Paul
N6FEG

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 7:14 AM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> Cool, I saw the call KA6EPI on the one teletype machine.  Just curious
> about the backstory being a lot of the computer and teletype stuff somewhat
> parallels things that I have been doing.  Have a friend who buys Ham
> estates and have seen that happen where the family will fight over who gets
> what and often happens that stuff sits for years and that’s what it looks
> like what happened there. Back in May there was much speculation and talk
> on the Vintage Computer Forum  about the Grid Laptop collection when it
> went up on EBay for ten grand first, then five, then twenty five hundred
> and it finally sold for two or below. Several people who tried contacting
> the seller had the attitude that this was somebody that was just in this
> for the money and trying to get as much as possible whit having no real
> idea what any of this stuff was beyond that its for sale, biggest issue at
> the time was they would not do shipping.
>
> Perhaps this is all a precautionary tale in a sense that we all need to
> think about our collections and what we want done with them, or why we
> still can think of dispersing items we have duplicates or multipoles of.
>
> The good thing is that today we have things like EBay or Shulman Auctions
> that can sell off this stuff and people who are motivated to get out there
> and list it even if they have no clue what it is and that prevents the
> family’s from just trashing all that stuff.
>
> Have to wonder what happened to all the huge collections and estates back
> in the days before the internet, I know some showed up at Hamfest and other
> items were grabbed up by the local Hams but would tend to think that more
> equipment was just dumped or trashed back in the “Old Days” then what goes
> on today.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> *From:* MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> *On Behalf Of *Brown Beezer via
> groups.io
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2020 9:17 AM
> *To:* MMRCG at groups.io; mrca at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net;
> MRCG at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* Re: [MMRCG] Estate Mystery
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> Ray, et al,
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> Good work finding this.
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> It is the estate of Dave Ross, actually in SW Washington.  He passed away
> 6 or so years ago, left his estate to a local friend,  Brian Berkelund who
> passed away abt 3 yrs ago and his family fought over it.
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> I knew Dave and Brian and managed to buy TRC-75 and TSC-15 from him prior
> to his checkout. Unfortunately there was no further communication with the
> family.
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> Ira Mosier in Washington got a lot of PRC 47 items at the same time but
> was unable to negotiate further.
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> Dave was a leading accumulationist and the pictured building was nearly
> full of radio treasures. Obviously,  he liked TTY
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> BB
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> To: Military Radio Collectors Association <mrca at mailman.qth.net>;
> MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io>; milsurplus at mailman <
> milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group <
> MRCG at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 22, 2020 09:01 AM
> Subject: [MMRCG] Estate Mystery
>
> Think this is all part of some estate from up in Oregon, there was a huge
> lot of Grid laptop computers that they sold back in May of this year, same
> deal started at a huge number but as it got relisted it kept coming down in
> price until it sold.
>
> The story as far as I understand it is that someone bought the real-estate
> and in an out building was all this type of stuff. Like I said the huge
> collection of Grid laptops is already gone and now it looks like they are
> going thru the teletype stuff.
>
> Anyone have any idea on who this was or what the back story is? Just
> curious. Look at EBay listing:
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Civilian-and-Military-Teletype-Machines-Parts-and-Manuals-Radio-Electronics/274410710794?hash=item3fe427270a:g:yKcAAOSwOOZfg-Td
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> Ray F/KA3EK
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