[MRCA] [MMRCG] Estate Mystery

Thu Oct 22 10:57:17 EDT 2020

Last year while visiting family in Baltimore a local news group had a posting about a pile of old ham radio equipment in the alley for the trash man. By the time I got the address from the poster and got there it was gone..  considering the median age of us that remember “the old stuff” is likely 60 and waning interest (if any) from our offspring I’m guessing it will become commonplace to see dumpsters with our treasures..
73 Tom K4NCG 

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> On Oct 22, 2020, at 10:14 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> Cool, I saw the call KA6EPI on the one teletype machine.  Just curious about the backstory being a lot of the computer and teletype stuff somewhat parallels things that I have been doing.  Have a friend who buys Ham estates and have seen that happen where the family will fight over who gets what and often happens that stuff sits for years and that’s what it looks like what happened there. Back in May there was much speculation and talk on the Vintage Computer Forum  about the Grid Laptop collection when it went up on EBay for ten grand first, then five, then twenty five hundred and it finally sold for two or below. Several people who tried contacting the seller had the attitude that this was somebody that was just in this for the money and trying to get as much as possible whit having no real idea what any of this stuff was beyond that its for sale, biggest issue at the time was they would not do shipping.
> Perhaps this is all a precautionary tale in a sense that we all need to think about our collections and what we want done with them, or why we still can think of dispersing items we have duplicates or multipoles of.
> The good thing is that today we have things like EBay or Shulman Auctions that can sell off this stuff and people who are motivated to get out there and list it even if they have no clue what it is and that prevents the family’s from just trashing all that stuff.
> Have to wonder what happened to all the huge collections and estates back in the days before the internet, I know some showed up at Hamfest and other items were grabbed up by the local Hams but would tend to think that more equipment was just dumped or trashed back in the “Old Days” then what goes on today.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> From: MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> On Behalf Of Brown Beezer via groups.io
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 9:17 AM
> To: MMRCG at groups.io; mrca at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; MRCG at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MMRCG] Estate Mystery
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> Ray, et al,
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> Good work finding this.
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> It is the estate of Dave Ross, actually in SW Washington.  He passed away 6 or so years ago, left his estate to a local friend,  Brian Berkelund who passed away abt 3 yrs ago and his family fought over it.
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> I knew Dave and Brian and managed to buy TRC-75 and TSC-15 from him prior to his checkout. Unfortunately there was no further communication with the family.
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> Ira Mosier in Washington got a lot of PRC 47 items at the same time but was unable to negotiate further.
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> Dave was a leading accumulationist and the pictured building was nearly full of radio treasures. Obviously,  he liked TTY
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> BB
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> To: Military Radio Collectors Association <mrca at mailman.qth.net>; MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io>; milsurplus at mailman <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group <MRCG at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 22, 2020 09:01 AM
> Subject: [MMRCG] Estate Mystery
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> Think this is all part of some estate from up in Oregon, there was a huge lot of Grid laptop computers that they sold back in May of this year, same deal started at a huge number but as it got relisted it kept coming down in price until it sold.
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> The story as far as I understand it is that someone bought the real-estate and in an out building was all this type of stuff. Like I said the huge collection of Grid laptops is already gone and now it looks like they are going thru the teletype stuff.
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> Anyone have any idea on who this was or what the back story is? Just curious. Look at EBay listing:
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Civilian-and-Military-Teletype-Machines-Parts-and-Manuals-Radio-Electronics/274410710794?hash=item3fe427270a:g:yKcAAOSwOOZfg-Td
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> Ray F/KA3EK
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