[ARC5] Kludge -

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 17 Jul 2010 at 14:04, Mike Feher wrote:

> Regardless of what Wiki says, the term became popular with hams after
> and advertising, I believe from CQ, showed up. I believe it was only
> advertised once around the mid 50's. It showed a typical cluttered ham
> station with all the wires going haphazardly all over the place,
> especially in the back of the gear. This guy called Kludge, advertised
> an operating desk that would neatly arrange everything. Since there
> was only one ad, it must not have taken off. Regardless, after that,
> anything wired haphazardly, or thrown together by hams was referred to
> as a kludge. Since I have all the CQ's downstairs, I'll have to look
> through most of them, in the "Index of Advertisers" to see if I can
> find it. I cannot believe none of the other OTs on here remember that.

**I** remember it: neat-looking rig/deal/item, but too expensive, IMHO.

Ken W7EKB