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« on: July 13, 2017, 1854 UTC »
A couple years ago I was looking for sx28 parts on QTH and came across an ad for some Japanese ww2 radios. They were in excellent condition, wich is amazing, but even more amazing was the prices, only like 50 to 100 dollas each. I emailed the seller and asked if any were left, and he said one guy bought them all as soon as he posted them, wich he thought was weird as stuff he lists sits for ages normally. I said you know those radios were worth thousands a piece right? He had no idea and was really torqued off about it, and no way top get them back, the guy paid instantly and they were already shipped. Japanese ww2 radios are rare not only because of the production numbers and humid environments most were operated in, but their construction methods were just barely able to make the grade for military service at the time. I don't know if the Japanese used any antifungal coating on their radio gear in ww2, but we used gobs, practically embalming the wires and parts. The allies had a study on anti humudity/fungal mechanisms for their electronics as they were literally being eaten away in the Pacific, wich resulted in the slathering of gear with MFP to prevent the same.
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