[MRCA] problems owning/buying rare radios

[B Smith]

The "new stuff" is not any good,

 but if you want to give me a Harris, or Sunair or Mackay or Racal
pack set I will put it to good use.
Z

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From: "W2HX" <w2hx at w2hx.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 8:23 AM
To: "'Rob Flory'" <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>; "mrca" 
<mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [MRCA] problems owning/buying rare radios

Thanks for your thoughts. My bcc39b will do split.  My harris RF-5000 
will
also do it for the vehicle. I believe some sunairs and mackays will 
also do
it

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73 Eugene W2HX


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[mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Rob Flory
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 6:07 AM
To: mrca
Subject: [MRCA] problems owning/buying rare radios

Eugene and Friends,

I have always loved Al's mantra, "one heartbeat away from a wheel 
chock".

By mostly sticking to the WWII stuff, I have kept it all in the 
repairable
category, but limited myself pretty hard in interoperability.  I'm 
missing
all the fun on the Moose and Squirrel, and the packsets look so fun! 
The
only thing I have that resembles a packset needs three buddies to 
carry
their parts of the set, and I don't have all the fragile canvas 
anyway.  If
I fired that thing up on 60m CW  I would likely receive a citation.

If you look at your stuff as toys and not investments, you will wring 
your
hands less.  If you don't need to get the money back out, why not get 
the
toy?

I would love to see some future wheel chocks working SSB at the 
History
Fair.  Between Moose and Squirrel and chasing the military stations, 
it
could be a lot of fun.  I'll arrange for the necessary antennas if 
anyone
wants to bring something.

The military crossband test brings me to the question of split 
frequency
operation in packsets and vehicle sets.  How many rigs can do that 
trick?
On SSB?

Rob
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