[Boatanchors] The ultimate boatanchors?

[mikea]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 05:04:45PM -0400, Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/27/05 10:49:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> wf2u at starband.net writes:
> > 
> > Mike,
> > 
> > The MacKay 3020 and the Debeg 2000 are nice receivers but they're not
> > boatanchors... As sand-state radios they may be called yacht-anchors at best
> > 
> > Sinkers, are they not?

Well, no. They can be pretty nice radios, I'm told, but they're sand-state
radios, and hence not as heavy as, say, an FRR-59 or R-390. They're not 
even in the same weight class as an R-1051, which does have a pair of real
glowbottles in its heart. 

They're just old sand-state radios intended for cruise ships or merchies:
no fire in their hearts, and certainly not band-cruisers. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin