[MRCA] Tubes and miscellaneous for museum ships and militarymuseums

[TChirhart]

Al your group certainly is more in line with what I think would be a great
place for these things.  I see they are seeking books on communications I
have some pretty decent books.  InfoAge volunteers sure have done a lot for
that place and it's impressive.  There is a possibility of equipment as
well. I have previously donated equipment to the museum ships in MA and if
they picked up the equipment it was all from WW2 era navy ships.  In the
event I had equipment in or near Philadelphia would you be willing to pick
it up?  I have a track on some equipment that I may be buying, two locations
in or around Philly.  If we can work something out I would be willing to pay
for the cost of fuel and some additional expenses. Let me know what you
think, I'm thinking you may be retired, wishing I was hihi.  After clearing
my folks estate of 61 plus years I realize that I want to be ahead of the
game and donate what I can and not be a pack rat like my folks.  I'm a
retired Navy/Coast Guard Chief Radioman and have the uniforms and some great
books, History of Electronics and Communications in the U.S. Navy, and a
hard to find copy of the 1922 The Book of Radio by Charles William Taussig.
It has this inside the cover "To Wilfred Gregson, Jr. from his old friend
Raimundo Dulvie (spelling not legible) would make a great research project
to see if any of these two gentlemen were involved in early radio.
Let me know what you think, 73 Tom K4NCG

-----Original Message-----
From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Al Klase
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 4:17 PM
To: Military Radio Collectors Association
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Tubes and miscellaneous for museum ships and
militarymuseums

Hi Tom,

I'm a member of two intertwined organizations here in New Jersey,  The 
InfoAge Science/History Learning Center (http://www.infoage.org/) and 
The New Jersey Antique Radio Club (http://www.njarc.org/) .  NJARC has 
established a communications history museum at the Infoage site at 
former US Army Signal Corp Camp Evans.  The museum involves three rooms 
of military radio gear.  NJARC also runs a "tube program" to support 
member's radio restorations.  We accept tube donations, clean and test 
them and pass the on to club members at a very reasonable rate.

I'd sooner see the tubes go to the club tube program, where they'd do 
more immediate good, but InfoAge is a 501-C3 corporation, so if a tax 
write-off is of interest, InfoAge could provide a receipt.

So, consider our hats thrown in the ring.

Regards,
Al

TChirhart wrote:
> I have taken possession of several boxes of tubes, many of which are
> WW2/Korean War vintage military tubes.  I will probably never use most of
> them and will offer them to the various volunteer restoration groups that
> I'm sure are on this reflector.  Many or most are NOS in boxes, some are
> loose, many from boxes that fell apart.  Later this week I will also be
> helping the family of an elderly ham to clear out boxes and bags of more
> tubes and parts etc. All I ask is that they go to a good cause and not
wind
> up on some auction site or on a table at a hamfest.  So if you are
involved
> in any of the military museums or other museums that have radio equipment
on
> display please send a list of tubes you need or would like to have as
> spares. These tubes include loctals, and many NOS metal tubes. IF you are
> restoring equipment to donate to any museums I will also assist you in
your
> efforts.  There is also a considerable amount of crystals, CR-1A/AR dated
> early 50's in 6 and 8 MHz, plus others. This is not limited to only
> tubes/crystals etc. There are NOS switches, relays, resistors etc. Help on
> the postage would be appreciated.  For Rob Flory, pass this along and I
also
> have some WW2 and post WW2 Navy uniforms, mostly Radioman, Chief Radioman,
> RM2-RM1 etc, Chief Warrant officer, USCG etc, plus dress whites/undress
> whites, dress blues/undress blues that are also looking for a good home.
> Thanks 73
> Tom K4NCG 
>
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Flemington, NJ
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