[ARC5] OT: Kenwood TS-830S

[Michael Clarson]

Roy:The Amazon is in South America, not Africa. Makes the existence of such
a substance suspect.... --73, Mike, WV2ZOW

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 23, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Don Merz via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Is old-fashioned white vinegar better or worse than Deoxit?
> > Boy, for the chemically-inclined writers among us, a comparison article
> > is BEGGING to be written.
>
> Don,
>
> Don’t say *anything* until the groundbreaking new product can be
> officially released, but:
>
> There is in development a new cure all for radios and especially
> switches.  This stuff is claimed to solve all intermittent switch and
> terminal contact problems forever, eliminate the need to actually make
> adjustments during alignment, and improve the clarity of sound when
> listening to contests or foreign short wave broadcasts.  It will also
> completely eliminate any danger from Hanta Virus left behind by former
> mouse residents, remove all nicotine odor and stains, and even restore
> Kenwood TS-440 radios to full operation that have died with the dreaded
> all-decimals display problem.
>
> It’s quite secret so far, but the main ingredient is rumored to be dew
> from the night blooming cereus plant that grows only in the Amazon Jungle
> in remote locations.  They have to get innocent virgins to harvest the dew
> because it’s a very delicate procedure, and only untainted innocent young
> damsels can be trusted to do it right, and not defile the potency of the
> harvested dew.  This has held up production because apparently there aren’t
> enough qualified damsels in Africa.
>
> The mixture will also include tears from poisinous Australian Desert
> snakes, the pollen dust from rare and seldom seen flowers that bloom only
> every 5 years in Antarctica, and the vapors from a particular extra strong
> Vodka sourced only from distilleries located in the remote  Siberian
> Steppes.
>
> The quantity will of course be very limited, especially at first, and thus
> the price will have to be set accordingly.  There is a rumor that payment
> can only be made with “postage stamps” that went missing from QSL card
> envelopes sent to central European hams over the last decade.  How us
> common folks are going to find those missing dollar bills, I have no idea.
> But we’ll need a lot of them.
>
> The word circulating in the underground circles of Wall Street has it that
> the research and development of this new astounding radio treatment
> compound was funded by an unidentified ham who was awarded multiple million
> dollars from a secret lost bank account in Tangiers.  He was apparently
> contacted by email from a benevolent Upper Secretary of Government Finances
> in an African country he’s not at liberty to reveal.  The research has
> been done on credit and speculation, apparently, because the transfer of
> the millions of dollars has been held up by some bureaucratic technicality
> that will be cleared up soon.
>
> Although product release dates have not been set just yet, we can expect
> announcements of this groundbreaking development soon.
>
> In the meantime, I expect to be using the De-Oxit I have here.  For
> instance, I have a new-to-me sweep generator whose power switch is
> inoperative (never closes to put power on.)  I hope to find an opening or
> drill a hole in the switch body to insert a squirt of the now-outmoded
> De-Oxit.
>
> We can all hope for a better future!
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky68 at gmail.com
> K1LKY Since 1958
>
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