[ARC5] Inspired Hack Job

[J. Forster]

AMEN!!

-John

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> IMHO, it's yet another example of attempting
> to make a Chevy Corvette out of a Model-T Ford.
> Rather than enjoy the "Model-T" for what it was,
> he ended-up with "neither fish nor foul"
> and tossed it into the junk heap.
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> If the "Easy SSB Exciter" was such a great idea,
> why are there not several still being used on the air?
> I have never in all these years heard even ONE.
> There certainly are a lot of original (or nearly so)
> Command Sets winging-along.
> So why not this "wonderful SSB ham innovation?"
> Maybe because it was actually
> a poorly-working piece of JUNK?
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> Like most "hack jobs:"  If it was ever finished at all-
> and most were not- it one-lunged and crippled-along,
> trying to do that for which it was never intended,
> until the hacker got enough money to buy a commercial rig.
> The poor, abused Command Set then went into
> a dirty old garage box for the next four decades.
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> I have been working with Command Sets off-and-on
> for over 40 years.
> I have seen and handled hundreds of "hack" jobs.
> I believe it accurate to say that 90% or more
> were unfinished and/or unusable "train wrecks"
> which never did another lick of useful work.
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> YMMV of course.
> 73 DE Dave AB5S
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