Clean out your closet of boat anchors and get a tax write off
Steve Stone
equipment donations for use in converting a donated motor home into
a mobile communications center. Anyone donating equipment will receive a receipt
for the value of the donation for tax purposes. We need mobile HF, VHF, and UHF
antennas, radios, 9600 BPS packet, GPS, ATV, battery power supplies, rechargers,
Pentium II class laptops or better, and whatever else you might think could be useful
in a field environment.
Thank You,
Steve Fleckenstein
N2UBP
EC/RO - Orange County ARES/RACES/Skywarn
President - Orange County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Inc
PO Box 14
New Hampton, NY 10958
spf...@citlink.net
146.760 PL 100 (Middletown, NY)
Ham CB
"Steve Stone" <spf...@zzcitlinkzz.net> wrote in message
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> Orange County, NY ARES , a non profit 501(c)
Any so called "tax write off" will be more than negated by the cost
of shipping crap to you idiot! And give me one good reason why
*anybody* would want to support *you* when our own home
towns, counties, and states are more in meed? What an idiot
to post a request like this.
Lloyd
Ham CB in Texas
Steve Stone
I'd be happy to eat the cost of shipping for a substantial donation.
Do you support your local ARES/RACES group ?
Thanks,
Steve
N2UBP
Steve
Save it for the folks across the ocean.
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Paul Atredies III
"Ham CB" <h...@hcbboynet.org> wrote in message
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While I think (hope) his intentions are honorable
I for one will be hesitant to donate any gear to any
so called 'ham' charity for a tax write off.
A ham club I was a member of once did this
"tax write off donation" thing a year or two
ago and only one-quarter of the donated radio
gear (from 3 estates) were kept for the club.
The rest of the gear was pared-off between
Club Officers and Directors, who then mostly sold
it on e-Bay and a significant personal profit or
quietly kept it for their home/personal use.
Moral of the story: Tell the XYL that your ham gear
is not to be donated to a club after you go SK.
The many vultures will likely try and grab and
profit from it. Have a trusted ham sell it for fair
profit to the estate, or box it up in taped-up sealed
non-descript cardboard boxes and put em outside on the curb
the morning of trash day so the bastards won't scavenge
it either. (I've seen some bastard hams actually drive by
homes of recent SK's on successive trash nights hoping
the XYL would put the radios out on the curb)
When they knock on the door askin if they would like to
"part with" that old "radio junk", tell em the trash man
took it last week and it sounded and felt REAL NICE
when the hydraulic jaws of that trash truck crushed and
smashed that Yaesu and Henry to SCRAP IRON out
in the street a little earlier.....(trust me, I did this once
to a ham vulture whom I knew would knock on the
door of the XYL of some SK ham I knew. The look on their
face of the guy was ***absolutly priceless**** when
she told them, as I coached her to do, that the big amplifier
he wanted for $50 was crunched in the back of the
trash truck a few hours earlier....)
Steve Stone
Sorry to hear you had so much trouble with prior donations to other groups.
I too have seen the SK feeding frenzy you describe.
My ARES/RACES/Skywarn crew are not vultures.
Anything donated that works will go into the motorhome or if not practical
will be used to build up battery powered field units or if AC only used in
our Net Control Radio room.
Anything that is totally not useable by my group will be offered to
surrounding ARES groups.
Like so many other public service amateur radio groups we lack significant
corporate or government financial sponsorship.
I'm trying to pull the group out of the 1980's and at least into the late
1990's.
If not practical to donate to my group please consider looking around your
immediate area for a worthy group.
Thanks,
Steve
N2UBP
"Paul Atredies III" <beaks...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Kenny Joe
> Hello Paul,
>
> Sorry to hear you had so much trouble////drivelsnipped/////
Surrrrrrrrrrrrrre, and we all all believe the Easter bunny is about to
arrive too! As one poster noted, I've seen more of these "so called"
charity donations end up in the private shacks of the guys running
the "so called" charity drive and/or being sold for cash.
Go sling your *bullshit* some place where people will be stupid
enough to believe it.
Kenny Joe
Abilene, Texas
Chris Howard
>
>Surrrrrrrrrrrrrre, and we all all believe the Easter bunny is about to
>arrive too! As one poster noted, I've seen more of these "so called"
>charity donations end up in the private shacks of the guys running
>the "so called" charity drive and/or being sold for cash.
You poor Texas guys sure are bitter.
As for me, after I'm dead I plan not to worry too much about
old ham gear. If I wanted to "invest" for my wife and
children then using ham gear to do it would be a very
stupid choice. That's not to say that I want my widow to
be cheated. But I don't plan on burdening her with
the crown jewels of ham radio. And if I did, I would plan
a way to have it managed without additional stress.
Anything I've left can be given away to someone who is interested
in using it... or selling it, if they are kind to my family
and considerate when they come and get it.
So if a ham says, "give it to the club" why do you care?