[ARC5] OT: Kenwood TS-830S

[Bill Cromwell]

That just drives the price up due to visas, passports, and 
transportation of said innocents from Africa to South America. Th 
premium prices have already been mentioned. There may be language 
classes or translation costs, too although some Asian countries have 
simply ignored that barrier.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 03/23/2016 01:39 PM, Michael Clarson wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:k1lky68 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On Mar 23, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Don Merz via ARC5
>     <arc5 at mailman.qth.net <mailto: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 <mailto:k1lky68 at gmail.com>
>     K1LKY Since 1958
>
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