[TenTec] How much for an Orion III?

[Wade Staggs]

And think of the money " We the People " could have Recovered had they been
placed at Auction! I personally would have Found the Money in the Budget
Somewhere. As a young Civil Defense worker many years ago. I witnessed many
Thousands of Dollars in Medical Equipment and Devices DESTROYED....
BECAUSE  they were out of date. How do Stainless Steel instruments such as
Scissors and Scalpels Expire. It would have made much better sense to
Re-Sterilize and Re-Package these instruments. After WWII Jeeps were
plentiful. Sold at Auction. Something was Recovered. After Vietnam, they
were pushing Million Dollar Helicopters from the Decks of Ships. When did
this Country get such a case of Stupid?


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:10 PM, k6jek <k6jek at comcast.net> wrote:

> I would have had nightmares for years if I'd witnessed that. I may have
> them anyway just hearing about it.
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
>
> > Sure there was... Government stupidity and its insistence on wasting tax
> > payers' money!
> >
> > 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> > (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of James
> > Duffer
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 8:17 PM
> > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] How much for an Orion III?
> >
> > Such a sad tale.  Sorry to hear of such destruction of good and harmless
> > equipment.  Harmless as there was no "just" reason for the destruction.
> > Jim, wd4air
> >
> >> From: Rick at DJ0IP.de
> >> To: tentec at contesting.com
> >> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:09:03 +0200
> >> Subject: Re: [TenTec] How much for an Orion III?
> >>
> >> I can answer some of that, first hand.
> >>
> >> In about 1973, the US Army in Europe (USAREUR) decided to close down
> >> hf and go fully to VHF and UHF.
> >> Hundreds of S-Lines and KWM-2A's were collected and brought to the
> >> army disposal center in south western Germany.
> >>
> >> I was custodian of a MARS station in Berlin and on TDY in the area of
> >> the disposal center, so I dropped in to see if I could scrounge
> >> anything to distribute through the MARS channels to our members.
> >> There I witnessed the beautiful Collins radios stacked by the hundreds,
> in
> > an area of about 50 ft.
> >> by 75 ft - being destroyed!
> >>
> >> There were a few guys working hard destroying them.  Every tube was
> >> being broken with a hammer and the chassis of each was cut in half with
> a
> > torch.
> >>
> >> Seems they had been used by the Army Security Agency and they were
> >> afraid there might be some residual top secret data still inside some of
> > the tube.
> >>
> >>
> >> I did everything I could to try and stop the action but to no avail.
> >> Everyone on site was just following orders and they were not willing
> >> to pause while I tried to find a solution.  All of the radios were all
> >> completely destroyed.
> >>
> >> I was in tears.  I could have made every MARS member in Germany's
> >> dream come true if some moron hadn't have taken the decision to destroy
> > them.
> >>
> >> So that's what happened to our military S-Lines here in Europe.
> >>
> >> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> >> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave
> >> Edwards
> >> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 6:16 PM
> >> To: tentec at contesting.com
> >> Subject: Re: [TenTec] How much for an Orion III?
> >>
> >> Also interesting (to think about)...
> >> I wonder what percentage of them still exist today?
> >>
> >> How many does the government still own?
> >>
> >> How many remain on dusty shelves somewhere....unopened???
> >>
> >> ....Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/14/14, 9:56 AM, Rsoifer at aol.com wrote:
> >>> I asked Rod, K0DAS (retired from Rockwell Collins), how many  KWM-2s
> >>> were bought by hams rather than Uncle Sam.  He said that nobody
> >>> really knows, but his best guess is that the U.S. armed forces
> >>> bought between  1/4 and 1/3 of them.  Some went to other government
> >>> agencies as well  as foreign governments.  That still leaves quite a
> >>> few that were
> >> bought by  hams like me.
> >>>
> >>> 73 Ray W2RS
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