Interesting Boatanchor Site

[TChesek@Epix.Net]

This comes down to personal preferences. He probably has a finite amount of
space and never intended to get to this point. I keep my shack in a similar
manner to Jose...workable, easily accessible, not stacked, clean, no or few
duplicates, etc. Also, as my interest evolves I sell my equipment. Being a
relative newcomer to Ham Radio (3 1/2 years) I get to play with everything
that I wanted to play with from 20-40 years ago when I had an interest but
didn't pursue a license, and I get this equipment for a tiny fraction of
what they were worth in their heyday. As I play with them I get to weed out
what I have true long term interest in vs. the whims. I mainly keep only
what I'm using or going to use on the air. I'd drive myself nuts if I bought
and stored everything that I had a fancy for plus I can't afford it. I
laughed when I saw who had this site because I've lost several eBay auctions
to him and wondered about his interests. Now I know. It's a great time to be
into boatanchors with eBay and the internet.

Tom K3TVC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jose V. Gavila" <eb5agv at CTV.ES>
To: <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [BOATANCHORS-TEMPE] Interesting Boatanchor Site


> Hello!
>
> Well, my opinion about this, being myself too inclined to amasse large
> number of rigs (just check my WEB if in doubt ;-)!) is that having rigs
> stacked as he has is NOT a good indication of care for them; you know rigs
> get scratched / bent that way. And, of course, you can't access to the
ones
> in the lower rows if just to check them. And, of course, rigs look mainly
> just stored, not used...
>
> In my own collection / shack I _try_ to:
>
>   -Have most rigs in working condition
>   -Have most rigs 'easily' accessible
>   -Stack a maximum of 2 rows (consequence of former 2 points)
>   -Keep units clean
>   -Have minimum duplicates
>   -Keep wife and children happy :-)
>   -...
>
> So when somebody tells he has '13 units of ....' and he has all house
> stacked to the ceiling... I would never call that a 'Museum', just a poor
> storage facility.
>
> Again, just my 2 cents worth!
>
> Regards,
>
> JOSE
>
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> 73 EB5AGV / EC5AAU - JOSE V. GAVILA
>    La Canyada - Valencia (SPAIN) - Loc: IM99SM
>
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