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Old November 1st 14, 09:03 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
Stan Barr[_3_] Stan Barr[_3_] is offline
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Default Rarer than Roman artefacts?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:23:42 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, gareth wrote:

50 years ago the world was buzzing with AR88s (both D and LF), HROs,
CR100s and the like.

What has happened to them all?

Surely no self-respecting radio amateur would ever think of putting
them in the garbage?

But that's exactly what happened to them.


Indeed. A lot of them were dismantled for parts, I can recall HRO
tuning mechanisms etc. being used in homebrew projects. You have to
remember back in the '60s these were just "old radios" not antiques.

There have been a few HROs and AR88s on UK eBay recently, so they're
still out there. Prices aren't too bad either.

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Stan Barr