[Milsurplus] Surprise at Shreveport Hamfest 2025

[Hubert Miller]

The market in this northwest corner of the USA is different. No.19 and BC-348 are a hard sell except at givewaway prices.
My feeling, feel free to hack the sets. Enough were built that this helps thin out the stock and increase the collecibility of
unhacked ones remaining.
I seem to have luck finding whatever tangent i set out on. I have a BC-224-A and an R-849. I have seen a couple ‘conversions’
i thought were really good. One was a BC-348 that it took me several minutes to recognize as a BC-348. Also those SSB
transceiver conversions of BC-453, some are really magnificent.
I recall an article, was it in ER, about how to build a ham transceiver out of an ‘All American Five’ plastic table radio. I thought,
? why ?  Why spend precious time on it ? There are art projects and there are art projects, and you want to pick them well.
Unless you have unlimited time. I’m not the one to say that’s the case or not.
Just be aware –  once you exit this world, unless it’s really well done, it is instant garbage, and will  be dissolved along with
the builder.
-Hue
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