WShoots1 wrote in message
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Frank D.: Other radios are more practical, but few are so cool.

My late wife, Ruby, N5GIN, was more interested in ham radio when the
radios
looked like real radios instead of kitchen appliances. She would have
appreciated that say, "Real radios glow in the dark."

I always wanted a JRC shipboard station. It was neat. It was clean looking
yet
it looked business like. And it had everything. Retuning the HF
transmitter for
the ham bands would have been no problem.

The European made 400 watt ssb stations were really super. Those were nice
little packages.

I know that people like Fair Radio would come along and buy a complete
inventory of surplus stuff at pennies a pound. I guess that was more
efficient
for the Government.

73,
Bill, K5BY

That raises a question I've been asking for awhile...

As the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ended the 500 kHz distress and safety
watch what has happened to all the shipboard radio gear? I would assume
there would be hundreds of Mackay consoles dumped onto the surplus market
yet I have only seen one MRU-35A and a couple of receivers in civilian
hands. Besides... I would like to get my hands on one of those Chelsea
radioroom clocks---even though they kept bad time.

RG