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The bayonet locking types first came out in the early  50's and several 
families include solder contacts.  They are not new and they are not expensive. 
 Plus several of the older and newer families are functionally 
intermatable, differing only in internal construction, body material, finish, and cost.  
I sent three of them to a radio collector in Australia last week.  Cost - 
$10.00 each.  Those may be exceptions.  Average cost tends to be about $20.  
Roughly two light lunches at Mickey D's.

I've been around electronic communication gear a long time.  Acquired my 
first BC-610 in 1961, M15 in 1962 and M28 in 1968.  Tons of other stuff in 
between and since.  I've noticed especially recently that there's a distinct 
tendency among Greenkeys list members to do what hams tended to do in the late 
40's and up into the 60's.  Upon acquiring a nice condition military 
surplus radio, instead of looking for and acquiring (easily and cheaply) the 
connectors and control boxes to hook it up and use it (most of which got scrapped 
for the metal and sold to the Far East because no one was buying them), the 
first thing they would do was rip out the decent connector that they had 
never seen anything like and replace then with some junk like an octal tube 
socket (or a Jap computer connector).   Today, such modified sets are 
generally just relegated to the parts heap.  

I've no particular interest in the UGC-129.  But if I were interested in 
one, I'd never buy one that someone had ripped all the original connectors out 
of and replaced with some junk.


> The UGC-129 is new enough to use those bayonet-locking military 
> connectors.

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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