I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

A HEMICUDA recently went for somewhere around 2,500,000 on Barrett
Jackson.

regards,
NEO

John S. wrote:
mike maghakian wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/DRAKE-R7A-SHORTW...temZ9740999363

The auction looks on the up and up to me. Nothing unusual about the
bidding and the seller has over five thousand all positive feedbacks.
The most I could say about this auction is that several bidders were
interested in a Drake HF radio and the high bidder won. I'm fairly
certain buyer and seller are happy and clearly the competitive auction
process worked pretty darned well.

N9NEO wrote:

I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

They've been buying for years.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I think you may be predicting the past. If you look at Japanese
websites you will see some impressive collections of radios and lots of
other boys toys.

Of all the groups of guys that buy and sell radios I'm wondering why
the Japanese are worthy of your special attention and concern. Maybe
you would care so share your thoughts.

And some guy paid close to $3million for a GM concept car from the
1950's. So what...it's supply and demand at work.


N9NEO wrote:
I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

A HEMICUDA recently went for somewhere around 2,500,000 on Barrett
Jackson.

regards,
NEO

John S. wrote:
mike maghakian wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/DRAKE-R7A-SHORTW...temZ9740999363

The auction looks on the up and up to me. Nothing unusual about the
bidding and the seller has over five thousand all positive feedbacks.
The most I could say about this auction is that several bidders were
interested in a Drake HF radio and the high bidder won. I'm fairly
certain buyer and seller are happy and clearly the competitive auction
process worked pretty darned well.

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
dxAce wrote:

N9NEO wrote:

I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

They've been buying for years.

Why is this? Are the Japanese expecting an EMP event coming from a north
Korean missile?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

What would building a collection of radios have to do with an unlikely
event like an electro-magnetic pulse.

In article .com,
"John S." wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
dxAce wrote:

N9NEO wrote:

I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

They've been buying for years.

Why is this? Are the Japanese expecting an EMP event coming from a north
Korean missile?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

What would building a collection of radios have to do with an unlikely
event like an electro-magnetic pulse.

He said the Japanese were buying tube units not solid state and the tube
units withstand EMP better.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

I once read somewhere many years ago that in case of an EMP,tube type
radios will just sit there and stutter along for a short while and then
work again as though nothing ever happened.I hope we never have to find
out though.I think there is at least one outfit in Russia that still
builds tube type radios.Maybe they know something we dont know.It
shouldn't be hard to build your own tube type radio.
But what about those solid state transistorized radio stations?
cuhulin

wrote in message
...
I once read somewhere many years ago that in case of an EMP,tube type
radios will just sit there and stutter along for a short while and then
work again as though nothing ever happened.I hope we never have to find
out though.I think there is at least one outfit in Russia that still
builds tube type radios.Maybe they know something we dont know.It
shouldn't be hard to build your own tube type radio.
But what about those solid state transistorized radio stations?
cuhulin


hobbyists build audio tube amps all the time.

didn't the Soviets have tubes in their fighters? the US switched to solid
state (EMP shielded?).

get some core memory like the Shuttle used to use.

Gravity

Telamon wrote:
In article .com,
"John S." wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
dxAce wrote:

N9NEO wrote:

I have been predicting to myself that the Japanese would soon try and
buy up old boatanchors on a large scale. I wonder if my prediction
will come true.

They've been buying for years.

Why is this? Are the Japanese expecting an EMP event coming from a north
Korean missile?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

What would building a collection of radios have to do with an unlikely
event like an electro-magnetic pulse.

He said the Japanese were buying tube units not solid state and the tube
units withstand EMP better.

And resistance to the effects of electro-magnetic pulse is why the
Japanese have been buying shortwave radios?

www.vacuumtube.com/mfg.htm
There are some companies still making vacuum tubes.As of 12/21/05
anyway.
cuhulin

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:47:43 -0500, "gravity"
wrote:


wrote in message
...
I once read somewhere many years ago that in case of an EMP,tube type
radios will just sit there and stutter along for a short while and then
work again as though nothing ever happened.I hope we never have to find
out though.I think there is at least one outfit in Russia that still
builds tube type radios.Maybe they know something we dont know.It
shouldn't be hard to build your own tube type radio.
But what about those solid state transistorized radio stations?
cuhulin


hobbyists build audio tube amps all the time.

didn't the Soviets have tubes in their fighters? the US switched to solid
state (EMP shielded?).

get some core memory like the Shuttle used to use.

Gravity


Get a cat's whisker radio -- no tubes, no transisters...

bob
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