[AMRadio] Meissner 150-B

[Lloyd Godsey]

Ve ar too soon oldt and too late shmart
Thanx
Lloyd Godsey  KK7IZ
kk7iz at cox.net
480-620-7145
www.kk7iz-parts.com
www.lloydsdipsydumpster.com/

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From: "Mack Rogers" <n4vgb at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:16 PM
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Meissner 150-B

> OK, here's my personal horror story about a Meissner 150B. Please remember 
> that hindsight is always 20/20.
>
> A guy showed up at my home about 40 years ago with a xmitter that he said 
> he wanted to see if I could get working for him and he'd pay me for the 
> parts and labor. Always looking to earn extra bucks back then I said OK to 
> the idea. He tells me it's rather large and heavy so he better pull around 
> to my basement door where my workbench was located, now I'm a little 
> worried.
>
> Lo and behold it's a Meissner 150B in excellent condition but missing some 
> tubes. The missing tubes turn out to be it's only problem and it works FB. 
> I give it several thorough tests and a couple of long smoke tests on the 
> dummy load, all is well so I call the guy with the monetary damages and 
> tell him to pick it up whenever he wishes.
>
> Now it gets interesting. The owner tells me he really wasn't interested in 
> the old radio, he got it in a deal with a bunch of junk he wanted, and 
> just wanted to see if I could get it to work, tells me to just keep it. 
> Remember, I was young and needing all the extra cash I could earn back 
> then. I tell the guy to come get his xmitter and bring cash with him in no 
> uncertain terms. He laughs and says OK, picks it up a couple of days later 
> and pays me.
>
> It was about 10 years later that I discovered how I had made a big mistake 
> in that deal and really should have took his offer to keep the Meissner 
> 150B!!! Oh well, live and learn.
>
> N4VGB
> Mack Rogers
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 9/22/10, Lloyd Godsey <kk7iz at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Lloyd Godsey <kk7iz at cox.net>
>> Subject: [AMRadio] Meissner 150-B
>> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1:43 PM
>>
>> Looking for complete schematic or manual with schematic to
>> buy.
>>
>> Thanx
>> Lloyd Godsey  KK7IZ
>> kk7iz at cox.net
>> 480-620-7145
>> www.kk7iz-parts.com
>> www.lloydsdipsydumpster.com/
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