[Milsurplus] Pile -O-Stuff and what year is this?

[Ray Fantini]

Man you all are a tough crowd! I have no interest in all that WW2 stuff anymore myself but applaud Hangar Thirteen’s effort it making this stuff available. The web page says you can contact them directly for additional information, if you see something on that list you are interested in then contact them.

I have been collecting and restoring stuff for a while now and in the process worked with museums and collectors on buying and reselling items that are excess to their inventory or mission and selling is not what they do.

At least Hangar Thirteen is making the effort to list and leave the work of contacting and negotiations up to the buyers. They got a bunch of stuff they are selling and cataloging each item is not something they are prepared to do.

Just in case you have not noticed its 2021 and that’s seventy five years after WW2 ended. The great days of cheap massive surplus sell offs of the late forties and fifties were all over sixty years ago. All the Hams who bought and used the stuff in the fifties and sixties are for the most part gone now, as a kid back in the seventies I worked with BC-348, 342, ARC-5 and everything else that was around and available being most Hams of the day had no use for that old AM/CW stuff and it was just given away or sold for $5 or $10

In the eighties and nineties lots of this stuff was sold off at Ham fest or otherwise disposed of but we are now thirty years beyond that.

Last couple Ham Fest I have been to have not seen a ARC-5 at all, Still see them at places like Dayton but un hacked are both rear and expensive.

Their will be no more government sell offs, no more warehouses discovered with stacks of unmodified ART-13 transmitters from area 51, what you see here is what you’re going to get. Estate sales, EBay and over priced on line sales and the personal sales from our own community.

So if you do consider yourself a serious collector you have an opportunity to put forth a little effort and contact and work for it because the days of this stuff just falling into your lap are over.



Ray F/KA3EKH



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