[BARC-List] BARC- Question of the week

[Bill Ricker N1VUX]

> What is the most useless radio-related object in your shack? And why.

Toss up ... 

- half-assembled Discone antenna in a box, 
  or any of the other disassembled antennas in boxes;
- the HF transceiver that needs repair to preamp or relay, since it came home
from FD'03 (or was it '02?) so deaf it can't receive WBZ-1030 
   -- and requires both a license and antenna upgrade before I could hit the
transmit button
   (but when it worked it was a great SWL receiver)
- Big box of Travelling Wave Tubes and plumbers delight wave guide that I
don't have time or project for
- Spectrum analyzer DC to 5 MHz; John called it Audio band.

(I _do_ have an antenna switch in-line with only one antenna connected right
now, and a couple more in a drawer, but there is a plan for those; any day
now, I'll reassemble the 2m beam I didn't use at FD to fill the other port of
the in-line switch.)

73 
Bill