[Boatanchors] Re: 'No toobs?"

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I was given one as a novelty in December 2003, Christmas yes, Santa NO! It came
from RS.	
	
If the room is semi-dark John, it is cute. At least it gives youngsters today a
hint that once upon a time radios were different.	
	
Duane W8DBF	



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From: J. Forster <jfor at quik.com>
To: jeff <jeffv at op.net>
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; Ken Kaplan <krkaplan at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Re: 'No toobs?"
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:06 PM

I was at Walgreens yesterday and saw a 3 tube radio for $10. Each 'tube' was a
plastic vial with a little mesh grid in it and an LED inside that. Well... it
did glow!!

SIGH,

-John



jeff wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 20:46 -0700, Ken Kaplan wrote:
> > Just between us, have you considered a Heathkit HD-1420 VLF converter in
front of
> > your SP600? It converts 10-500 khz to 3510-4000 khz. No toobs
>
> no toobs?
> How does it WORK?
>
> :)



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