[ARC5] don't drool over the carpet.

[Mike Everette]

Wow... did you get the F4F Wildcat with it?

That's a beautiful set.  Pricey...!  But I'd hate to think what it cost me, to obtain an almost complete set of coils, control box, test meter and a couple of connectors for my RU-18 receiver.  At eVilBay prices, it wer'nt cheap.  I still don't have a dyno or junction box, but do have everything needed to make a lash-up to operate the receiver.

You really ought to consider in your will, leaving this to the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, FL.  Otherwise, when you go, it's liable to end up in the Dempsty-Dumpsty because the "instant-ham-just-add-water" types who handle your estate will consider it to be worthless junk -- if they even recognize this for what it is, which is doubtful.  Seen things like that happen!

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I came across a set just like this, all brand new.  It had been presented to my high school's radio club (yes, there used to be such things) by our beneficent Goobermint, quite a few years before I got there.  The physics teacher (a real ijit if ever I saw one) wanted to clean out the "junk" in the old club room and was going to throw this out.  I'd known it was there; I'd graduated a couple of years before.  Through an intermediary, I managed to acquire it by being there to catch it when the stuff was tossed out -- rx, tx, all accessories, all coils, all connectors, just like this one, some still in the original packing.  I got the receiver working, and it was surprisingly good if the band wasn't too crowded.  Well, a Novice friend came over a few days later.  He'd been struggling to use a home brew regen receiver with a 6SN7 and a 6V6 and had made maybe five contacts in the 3-or-so months he'd been
 licensed.  He drooled over that RU receiver like it was an R-390, and I guess it was, compared to his homebrew rig.  I gave the whole setup to him.  I don't know what, if anything, he ever did with the transmitter; but he used that receiver for quite a while and it served him well.

My current RU-18 was found in an attic that a friend and I were cleaning out about 6 years ago (actually there were four or five of them!).  Brings back a lot of great memories.

73

Mike
W4DSE




________________________________
 From: Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com>
To: "'Todd, KA1KAQ'" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>; 'Kenneth G Gordon' <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> 
Cc: 'arc5 mail list' <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] don't drool over the carpet.
 

You are right Todd - that is what I intend to do with it. 73 - Mike 

Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960 


-----Original Message-----
From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Todd, KA1KAQ
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:59 PM
To: Kenneth G Gordon
Cc: arc5 mail list
Subject: Re: [ARC5] don't drool over the carpet.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> On 31 Jul 2013 at 21:34, john rose wrote:
>
> > I hope someone from this, or the other lists on boatanchors can win 
> > this one and keep it nice in perpetuity. You will drool when you see 
> > this, not while standing on the carpet. Greedbay 281142887460
>
> Sigh.......    :-(
>

For the price it sold for, I'd say it is going to someone who is going to
pay attention to it or, at least, preserve it for a few more years.

I've no intention of selling my set, but it sure made me smile.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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