[Boatanchors] IC-775 or IC-775DSP

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On 6/13/06, AD5VJ  Bob <rtnmi at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Is the IC-775 considered a Boatanchor yet?
>
>   73 fer nw,
> Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM)

The accepted definition of 'boatanchor' as I understand it involves
old, heavy, vacuum tube gear like the DX-100 and so on. The Yaecomwood
rigs that sometimes show up on this list weren't even designed when
the term was coined, Collins KWM-2 or Drake size gear being the new,
preferred norm.

This isn't based on my experience mind you, but comes from being set
straight by some of the OTs in the club I onced belonged to. When we
had a club auction and some of the new whipper-snappers stated that
the use of boatanchor had come into being in the 80s, one fellow piped
up that it was used a good 20 years or more before that, and several
others agreed. This was in response to someone with a Yaesu FTdx
something who made the original assertion.

And, regardless of how heavy it was, no solid-state rig could possibly
qualify as a boatanchor because it wasn't around when the term was
first being applied, and lacked vacuum tubes. Even the Collins S-Line
stuff was more of a rowboat anchor, in their estimation.

Super Pros, A-Line gear, Big Heathkits, SX-28s and so on were the
basis for the original application, as I understand it. Most of these
guys were in their 50s-60s back then, one even gave me a TDQ some
years later and said "now THIS is a boatanchor!".

So to paraphrase them, they don't make boatanchors anymore and haven't
for some time. Which leaves it wide open for you to come up with an
entirely new terminology, like 'doorstop' for the newer technology
items.  (o:

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ (ex AAR1HO)