[Boatanchors] OLd radios, grumbles and a glass of wine

[rayfri]

I would add a few more questions....
WHO can load a transmitter into a set of bed springs or a window 
screen?   Or a long length of barbed wire fence?
WHO can kluge up a key for cw and make a contact when all other things fail?
WHO has or is willing to climb to the top of the highest peak around to 
stick a two meter ground plane
into the ground and make a two meter contact without a repeater?   And, 
at the same time, WHO can erect a 40
foot pole on top of that mountain, hand wind a loading coil on an 
oatmeal box and make contacts on 80 and 40 meters?
WHO knows what the heck a cold 807 is?

Ray  wa7itz


Ross wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: CLIVE COLLINS
>To: Ross
>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchors,descrete compnents and dinosaurs
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>Actually, I've had fun. I remarried after the death of my wife and told my
>intended that I had a mistress and a girl friend. The mistress was out in
>the car (ICOM 706) and my girlfriend was a lady of 81 years, we had both
>seen the passing of our friends/spouses. The work in electronics has been
>challenging and profitible, it has put food in the kitchen for 40+ years.
>The only regret is the sadness that those "youngsters" are missing the fun
>of smoking circuits, HV jolts and so on. I am still involved here at the
>house where I produce PCB on a CNC machine. But the joy of building circuits
>is not taught nor may it be demostrated-tisk, the death of Heath kit. To the
>negative the State of Texas is placing a premium on "certification" in many
>fields. Dinosaurs like myself may build a computer (I've lost count) load
>operating systems, network them together (the house and shop are buried in
>them) and I have made more Cat 5 cables then I want to think about and yet I
>can not get a "certification" without going back to school. When you are 60
>this doesn't make sense. So, I stood before the "President" of DFW Airport,
>whom you get to know after 22 years, and say "I am an endangered spieces, a
>dinosaur". Thus we are but who can make it work when the batteries are dead,
>the mfgr doesn't make it anymore or someone misplaced the troubleshooting
>flowchart and the laptop.
>73's and all the best, I think I here a glass of wine calling CQ
>
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