[Boatanchors] Landed on my doorstep

[Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF]

I wonder if that same van Gary described, matching the one that roared out of my
yard two days ago with a maine tag on the mud covered license plate, with a guy
matching Mr. Brown at the wheel, was a pure coincidence? I got suspicious when
we ran the security video and got this close up shot of some guy driving a
gravel truck on the purple with white striped baseball type hat the guy driving
was wearing. The hat had the bill facing backwards, maybe the driver played
catcher in little league baseball! (LOL) But when the camera got a close zoom of
the nearly obscured with road kill bug inerds windows sign that read: "If It
Don't Glow, And Smells Like Rice, It Ain't TVI From My Radio!" Well Gary, enjoy
that HQ you picked up here, as it wasn't mine to begin with! I got it from a guy
in WV who blew the heck out of my brand new Goodyear radials with that turkey
shooting cannon he was packing! So much for the 'road hazard' warranty I paid
extra for! I got real concerned when AAA showed up with a mil surplus APC and
threw me a chain! So Gary, if you see some big hulk sauntering up your driveway
with a ten gauge double barrel anti-aircraft gun slung over his big broad
muscular shoulders, chewing on a real Cuban cigar butt, looking mean enough to
eat a live chicken and then pick his teeth with a claw, wearing a bandana around
his well tanned neck that says "A Red Neck is better than a broken neck!", hide
the HQ and run like you had a sudden attack of severe abdominal cramps for the
nearest outhouse, preferably in the next state!   

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From: jeff <jeffv at op.net>
To: Boatanchors list <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Landed on my doorstep
Date: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:28 PM

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 10:30, Troglodite at aol.com wrote:
> There is a great deal of truth in what you say. Today's generation is not  
> interested in old technology and find it difficult to understand why we are.  

In my case, it's regret.
I started soldering things around age 12.  Never had any training. 
Don't know much of what I should, but will try to fix anything I can.

At 41, I once again feel the lure of electronics.  Not that it ever
left, but why not sit down and give it a better go this time?  Since I
use only tube amps for my guitars and have a few BA's, this is a good
place to start.

But you're correct - when I say tubes, I always get funny looks.


To hell with them - there are more left for US  :)


A great percentage of currently manufactured guitar amps use tubes and
that will not change for a while.  There are a ton of companies building
devices for `tube tone' but they haven't succeeded as yet.



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