[R-390] radios at trash sites

[Cecil Acuff]

My brother was telling me a story a while back about a fellow he worked with 
that found an old wood console radio out at the street.  He stopped by and 
pulled the guts out of the thing and carried it into work.  My brother 
looked at it and was amazed...it was an all chrome chassis and was 
beautiful....problem was the speaker was still in the cabinet and it was not 
the permanent magnet type.  The power supply filter choke was the 
electromagnet for the speaker plus my brother asked what kind of shape the 
cabinet was in and the guy responded it was in great shape I just didn't 
know where I was going to put it.  After a little research on the web they 
found it was a fairly expensive set and he rushed back to try and get the 
cabinet and it was gone so he went to the door and asked the folks that 
lived in the house.  Their reply was "yea we saw you pull some of the stuff 
out and figured you would come back for the rest so we put it in the garage" 
They agreed on $50 and he picked up the rest...turned out to be a very nice 
radio....seems I remember it was an old Scott.

Cecil...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Richey" <richey2 at mindspring.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: [R-390] radios at trash sites


I'll share a true story with you guys, in the late 70's I had a hammerlund 
HQ215, solid state rx and sold it around 1980, my neighbor who collects old 
records goes to grage sales every saturday, about 5 years ago he came home 
and told me about a couple of ham radios he seen at a grage sale and since 
it was not too far I decided to go look, you gussed it there was my HQ215 in 
nice condition and with a price tag of $25.00.  It came home with me, you 
never know...

Joe W2DBO
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