Beerbarrel wrote:

Better reason to buy boatanchors!

Dunno. But it's interesting... after the end of WWII, the amount of surplus
equipment on the market was amazing. Even considering the total cost of
the war being so high, it was amazing.

After Korea, after Vietnam, after the Gulf War, there has been a move to
shrink the size of the military a little, but nothing like what happened
after WWII. And nothing like the amount of surplus stuff came out either.

(There _was_ a lot of interesting captured radio gear on the market after
the first Gulf War, though. Lots of ex-Soviet VHF-LO gear. Prices weren't
so low, though.)

Some of the wideband HF surveillance systems that were installed in the
eighties should be about getting ready for boatanchor status, shouldn't
they? I'll be looking forward to that.

But it'll be very interesting to see what happens after this war is over,
or at least when the buildup is over. Lots of UHF satellite gear coming
down the pike in another five to ten years?
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."