[Milsurplus] US Army Signal Corps Museum

[Ray Fantini]

All museums are suffering under the new Covid realities and a tightening of the economy. The Signal Corps Museum in particular has the problem of the military no longer wanting to be in the museum business and actively working on pushing those collections to non-government agencies to operate. Take a look at:

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/05/02/a-new-battle-campaign-museum-fights-to-stay-at-fort-gordon/

we have a great facility between Baltimore and Washington known as the National Electronics Museum that's been very active including a couple auctions and local events that are popular but they are now reeling over the dual blows of Covid and the economy.

https://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/

That's about the only place where you can see things like a SCR-270 and SCR-584 Radar sets that I know of. 
Long story short, if you care get out and try to support your local museum. Volunteer, donate and write to everyone who you can.

Ray F/KA3EKH



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It appears quite a few are unaware that the Ft. Gordon museum closed for good in Feb. 2021. Google "signal corps museum"
The museum staff and volunteers were trying to raise $43 million to buy a building there and move the collection.  Nothing heard by me of how they did, but since it hasn't reappeared in a year, well...

No telling what happened to either the Ft. Mom. or the Ft. Gordon collections and the longer it takes to hear, the less likely we ever will hear what has occurred.  I would not be even slightly surprised if the mil-minions have sent it to the crusher and, like the Navy, sent the archives to be pulped.  Too much paperwork and "environmental impact" ("Gosh that stuff has CAPACITORS!") and never-cancelled "secret" designations on gear that's been sold by Fair Radio for decades, too much bureaucratic excrement-flinging to ever let us buy any of it.

Yeah I'm cynical- I've seen Uncles "disposal" clown show first hand.


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