[Milsurplus] Boatanchor Ennui--The Museum "Solution"

[Hubert Miller]

The human proclivity to collect things is not going away soon.  Some things may be in oversupply but other things steadily increase in value.

I don’t think TCK’s and TAJ’s and BC-610’s and SCR-522  have much of a future, but smaller things like ‘Command Sets’ and field portables like 

BC-611, TBY, TBX, RBZ  and such will always have enthusiastic collectors.

 

The demise of international HF broadcast surely has weighed on shortwave radio enthusiasm. Most major manufacturers have dropped out

of the market. Surprisingly, and maybe it’s only due to our age group, but there still seems to be a collector market for SWL radios.  Maybe

that market will decline precipitously in a few more years. 

 

The progress to digital radio broadcasting doesn’t necessarily mean all those nice looking old collectable broadcast radios become dead 

displays. I think demodulator adapters could be built as plug-in options, or the ‘wireless rebroadcaster’ route can keep them playing.

 

The demise of paper magazines: i rate this as a plus. Sure, you can hardly sell any of your Ham Radio, QST, Radio-Electronics any more.

But – you don’t have store them either. You either find them online or buy a DVD if they’re not online. People are even hesitant about

taking them for free now. I myself am *very* happy to be free of hundreds of lbs. of old magazines, plus now i can actually find the articles

at any time. I recently also bought a National Geographic magazine DVD – Nat’l Geo has some wonderful WW2 era issues, but have you

ever lifted a boxful of National Geo’s ? Some books are not available in ebook format, and some old books are just too wonderful in paper

format, so there’s still a small niche for paper. 

 

So some things will not survive, some will. It’s not too hard to guess what will and what won’t.  

-Hue 

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