Re: [Amateur-repairs] Old test eqpt? Chuck it? Refurbish it?

Hi Gareth,

I am also on the same boat... Even perhaps on a larger boat!. I have
more than 100 large shelves full of old test and radio equipment and I
NEED to get rid of most of it, as now I am pursuing other hobbies which
require the space (and also don't want my heirs to get all that crap to
dispose of!)

But for years I have been unable to find a good solution. I donated some
gear about six years ago to a Lunar Museum (as it was test equipment
used in the Apollo Project) but it was just once. I tried to also donate
material to a local telecommunications museum, but they refused to take
it...

So, I am afraid, the best option is to scrap it. And that hurts, both
because I invested quite a lot of money and, mostly, because I think
lots of items are still useful. But, yes, the small Chinese test gear
make them look just as trash on the eye of most people.

I wish you good luck finding a way to get rid of your gear in a less
hurting way!

73 Jose EB5AGV

PS: Look at my WEB on https://jvgavila.com to see some of the gear
around... and it shows just some of it 😮

El 26/06/2025 a las 16:37, Gareth Evans via groups.io escribió:
> We seem to have been overtaken by the miniaturisation of Anno Domini
> when VNAs and the TinySA give us almost everything we need in a size
> not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes.
>
> What then, to do with shelves full of the test eqpt slowly amassed
> over 50 years but now worth almost nothing, perhaps only 5 or 10
> shekels / dollars / pounds sterling at the various rallies and hamfests,
> hardly worth the hassle of trying to sell it?
>
> I'm thinking of my valve (tube to the Left Pondians :-) ) RF sig genny,
> AF sig genny, RF millivoltmeter, bench DVM, freq counter,
> homebrew capacitance meter; all taking shelf space that is on
> increasing scarcity of shelf space in the shack and all of which has been
> superseded by miniaturisation.
>
> There's even a W95 laptop in there somewhere purely to support
> the ICOM PCR1000 RX, long made redundant by RTL-SDR
>
>
> 73 DE G4SDW (Was G8DXY) GQRP #3339 Gareth
>
>
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73 EB5AGV - JOSE V. GAVILA - La Canyada - Valencia (SPAIN)
http://agvradio.com AGVradio
http://jvgavila.com Personal WEB



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