[R-1051] 1051 buyer

[Guido E. Santacana]

I think they are smashing everything now. Goodbye to good ol surplus.
Can't understand how 30+ year old technology do any harm in the surplus
market. Gone are the days of $50.00 BC348s and TCSs or $300.00 complete
R390As with original meters and modules and even an original maintenance
manual. Remember the ART13s for next to nothing or ARC5s for $19.00. I
wish that I had kept the old Fair Radio Catalogs.

Best 73s
Guido Santacana KP4FAR

Barry Hauser wrote:
> 
> Guido wrote:
> 
> At least now I know there's hope. I agree that the government must
> > be trashing them. What a pity.
> 
> Do you think the gov't still has any to smash?  Sense I got is that they
> sold off most some years back, retaining only a few.  But I have no specific
> inside info.  Ostensibly, the R-1051's were replaced by other rx's some time
> ago.  However, they were probably the last rx with tube front ends and some
> EMF protection, though there are probably other ways to protect the front
> ends of SS equipment with gas discharge tubes, etc.  I think they're too
> busy smashing the radios that replaced them, like the 2050's.
> 
> Barry
> 
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