Re: [TenTec] How much for an Orion III?

[Jim Lowman <jmlowman@sbcglobal.net>]

I doubt that there was a MARS station that didn't sport some Collins 
gear, especially the venerable KWM-2.
Uncle Sam was known for buying the best, and trained lots of us the keep 
the electronics running for what companies today would consider to be 
past the end-of-life dates.
73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 4/11/2014 11:02 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> Ray, I followed you in agreement, right up to the last bullet.
> It wasn't the "plenty of hams" willing to pay the price but rather Uncle Sam
> that put that radio on the map.
> Sam bought tens of thousands of S-Lines and KWM-2s.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)