Interesting Boatanchor Site

[John Kolb]

Well fortunately Pat lives reasonably close to the El Cajon ARC,
which among it's other projects, helps the surviving spouse dispose
of ham radio and related equipment.
http://www.wa6bgs.org/estate.html
I'll admit this "collection" would be a challenge to them :)
Pat's been writing a column in their monthly newsletter for
awhile, so I'm sure the radios won't go in the dumpster.

A fair portion of my garage consists of stuff picked up at their monthly
estate and non-estate offerings at the Santee swap meet.

John

At 06:42 PM 3/28/2006, Jim Simmons wrote:
>  Well, if it goes like it usually does, his wife will come across a local
>ham, or collector, who will offer maybe a couple hundred bucks...and he will
>cart it all away for free.  Then he will have a field day on ebay and clear
>maybe a hundred thousand.  Meanwhile said wife is happy to have all that
>"junk" out of her way.  Such is the way of SK's.  I've tried to impress on
>my dear wife the monetary value of my paltry collection for just such an
>eventuallity.  Also my son, who is also a ham, knows the value of what I
>have.  Did I mention that my wife is also a ham, but very inactive.  She
>uses the local repeaters to keep up with us when we are out of the house and
>that's it.  She also enjoys the beeps as she searches for local repeaters
>when we go on a long trip.
>
>Jim N5MSJ
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV] On Behalf Of Greg Gore; WA1KBQ
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:15 PM
>To: BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
>Subject: Re: Interesting Boatanchor Site
>
>I didn't see anything particularly rare or valuable in there; mostly just a
>huge accumulation which could be accomplished by vacuuming local hamfests.
>Even that "rare" Twenties crystal set is just a common loose coupler worth
>maybe $50. To each his own I guess. I sure feel for his wife though for what
>she may have to deal with someday. How would one deal with that? Make a
>phone call?
>
>Greg
>
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