Here’s an email i sent Brian KN4R in a recent conversation:
“No, i know nothing about the seller. But i have a story. The ARR-15 they have, for an imaginative $275, i saw about 4 years ago at Rickreall hamfest for $75.
These were a Tektronix employee project. They had the company metal shop make a new panel for a small bunch of guys. I still have this new front panel one
of those guys gave me. At the time, i thought, you would never find a cabinet for this mod radio, because it not only has the ARR-15’s depth, but the new panel expands the width too, so the original cabinet was junked. Recently i was thinking i maybe should have bought it. ( Maybe not ! ) I always wondered
what happened to them; there were 2 he was selling. There is not a person on the planet to pay 275 for this, so it will be interesting to watch what happens.
I “might” be the only person on the planet to consider buying one for say, $50. When you see some price like this for a modded receiver or some much hacked example at an imaginative Ebay price, you have to wonder about their awareness.
-Hue”
The Ebay item is
I see i was wrong about a couple points before i took today’s second look, but that’s alright, it still has zero chance of selling. It occurs to me now that
the seller may have acquired this as an estate buy or a storage unit seizure sale.
-Hue Miller