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What, no vapor-cooled 250kW tetrode?

73DG

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:36 PM John Lyles <jtml at losalamos.com> wrote:

> I bought a new car for my wife, as her grey goose was getting up in
> mileage and had a few expensive repairs awaiting. One was the radio had
> died, twice, and it was a 2006 Toyota radio that had CD changer, Camera,
> maps, and I found the last one on ebay, which lasted two years. Could
> have been the capacitors failing, but I tried opening it up and its a
> mechanical monstrosity to get to the radio. Anyway, to get to the chase,
> we ended up with a Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid. Its a clone of a Toyota
> Highlander sort of, but cheaper and loaded with electronics. We live in
> Santa Fe county, so of course....
>
> What surprised me was that the AM radio works very well. It tunes
> quickly, like analog would, and it has low background buzzes, hums and
> tweeps. I can actually listen to AM without getting frustrated. This
> being a hybrid engine, it has a liquid cooled inverter somewhere and a
> 1.5 kW Lithium chemistry battery under the floor somewhere. There is no
> HD symbol anywhere and we haven't read the 1/2 inch thick manual for the
> entertainment system, but there is a button on the big screen above the
> dash, that said HD data. It selects between weather, highway conditions
> and something else. I don't know what it is yet.
>
> John Lyles
>
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