Here is a wee tidbit that supports the provenance story of the IP-501 owned by Don Howard, Portland Oregon, and the Leningrad 1936

ship’s regen and the Marconi ship’s regen that i own, that were all locally acquired, not from outside the Pacific Northwest. This page view

is from ‘Oregon At War’, John Baker, 2020. I read that John Baker passed away this year. Back before the Plague Years, i went to the Newport

( Oregon ) Senior Center to hear him talk about WWII in the Northwest. His talk showed some examples of WWII things he had found in

the sand dunes off Florence, Oregon: an Army canteen, some aircraft gun or MG shells, that kind of thing. I also recall when i worked at the

store in Seattle late 1970s, i met a WWII Philippines veteran, who lived on Bainbridge Island, who told me he had a Russian ship spark set

in his basement. I’m sure it went to the garbage when he passed away. No provisions made for passing it on, and who among the public

would recognize it as other than worthless junk?

I’m very glad i went to a couple of these events; but now who’s going to carry the story on?

I suppose this practice, of exchanging a Lend-Lease partner’s ship’s radio gear for current U.S. merchant marine equipment, may have also

gone on at other West Coast and East Coast ports, i mean other than Oregon and Washington, but to date i have not read or heard any

accounts.

-Hue Miller