Interesting Boatanchor Site

[Lewis c Emerson]

While Jim's comments may be a bit of exaggeration, it's not far off the
mark.  After 65+ years of hamming I'm being forced to downsize my gear
and you can imagine how much one can collect in that period.  A gentleman
came by recently and offered me a flat $1000 for all.  I have 3 HF rigs,
3 all-mode UHF rigs, several older model handhelds and base station FM
rigs, a Cushcraft vertical, a KLM 2 M beam, keys, keyers, satellite
equipment, packet equipment, over 250 vacuum tubes, hundreds of caps,
thousands of resistors (I was big time into building), switches,
transformers, hardware, etc. etc.  In checking eBay recently I saw one of
my HF rigs sold for $435 and one of the UHF all modes for $710 so, if I
had accepted his kind offer, he'd have recovered his (very wise)
investment with those two items alone.  So, I guess I've got to break
into this eBay business, but who'd want to buy from an unknown with no
background or, as eBay calls it, no "feedback"?  I suspect that there are
many widows out there who, unfortunately, have gone through pretty much
what Jim has described to us. 
73 from Doc, W4ITJ

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:42:03 -0600 Jim Simmons <orion at DATASYNC.COM>
writes:
>  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-----
> From: Boat Anchor Owners and Collectors List
> [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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