shipping query

[al winfrey]

Ray,

The cost of sending an Apache to about anywhere is likely to come close to a hundred
dollars and the likelyhood of it getting there totally undamaged is slim. It will
probably have to be shipped by truck. I've heard that if you ship in a wooden crate that
is must then be placed inside of a cardboard carton for UPS to accept it. A lot of
trouble anyway.

I'm about to let go of a Mohawk and a Marauder myself and I plan for either a pickup or
meeting someone at a hamfest. It depends on how far out in the boonies you live though
for that to work.

al winfrey - wa9hsl
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rayfri wrote:

> am pondering doing what I never thought I would do... selling one
> of my two Apache transmitters.
> If I actually do the unthinkable.. I am wondering if anyone has
> any advice or actual experience with shipping one of the big heavy
> heath transmitters such as the apache, dx 100 or the marauder
> or maybe even the warrior amplifier?  Will it need a wooden crate?
> Will UPS refuse because of the weight... will it have to go
> by some special shipping..?   whats been the experience out there?
> Years ago I had some hams say they shipped by taking out all the
> tubes and even removing one or two of the transformers to lighten
> the load and sending those separately...
> Comments or questions anyone in case I take that final step..
> ray  wa7itz
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