[BC] Saved from the dumpster!

[Ron Cole]

I had a guy call me at the station one day and ask if there was any old junk
that I wanted to get rid of.
It immediately occurred to me, The AM Transmitter Store room, where old junk
goes to die.

I told him Yes, enough to fill several pickups.

He and two others arrived at the AM transmitter on a Wednesday afternoon.
They hauled off old cart machines, reel-reels, piles of old carts and cart
racks, old consoles AM and FM Transmitter monitors and and lot of assorted
junk that had wound up "Stored" at the AM TX.
They made a real dent in the Junk room.

They came back about a week latter and hauled off what was left of a Collins
20V that had not been operable in at least 10 years.

That sure beats filling dumpsters, and its much less expensive and labor
intensive on my behalf...

Ron


On 6/6/06, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 06/06/2006 08:04:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> chris at virtbiz.com writes:
>
> > That said.... at one of our datacenters we share a floor with an
> >  extremely large multi-national law firm.  You wouldn't believe the
> >  computer equipment that hits the dumpster.  At one point I saw half a
> >  dozen or more 24" Trinitron monitors tossed in there.  I couldn't
> resist
> >  plugging a couple in... yup - they worked.  And they looked about brand
> >  new.   Makes one wonder.
>
> Is there any chance of rescuing any of this still-useful equipment? Even
> just
> the "small stuff", like RAM or CPU chips, video cards, HD's, etc? There
> are
> plenty of folks who could and would gladly accept such for upgrades or
> replacement of older tech.
>
> The parts that went into my "B.O.B." ham transmitter were all rescued from
> the dumpster, here.
>
> Willie...
>
>
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