This is the start of an ambitious project: to try and make a useful guide to "collectible equipment" - of all types, military, commercial and amateur. This will be a series of articles, giving basic technical details, and a picture to help identify examples of a wide variety of equipment. Plainly this is going to take a while, and I have kicked the ball off, by looking at a few well known military sets. To ensure that we cover equipment of all types, periods and countries, I will be dependent on input from you, the members.

I thus warmly welcome contributions - please don't feel constrained to follow my format slavishly, but do try and provide a picture of the equipment, and please keep the length to about half a side of A4. If you are about to embark on something well known (e.g. the CR100 Rx), please contact me first to ensure that no-one else "has bagged that one" - then we can avoid frustration and duplication of effort.

Richard Hankins, G7RVI