[Boatanchors] New official acronym

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 07:09 PM 4/7/2008, you wrote:
>I just read an article in the latest issue of the IEEE Spectrum 
>Magazine. Seems that all of the modern stuff is causing great 
>problems for the military since they must keep warehouses full of no 
>longer made components.

Hey, Papa's Xtra Pest... (inside joke phonetics for Ed's high-school 
era call - WA8PXP)

Thanks for the info.  This is something we generally have known for 
about the last ten
years....(especially from restoration of WW2 gear)... that a 20 year 
old solid state
radio is difficult to get parts for.  Yet 65 year old boatanchors 
using "standard" parts
are not a problem.

Now as long as we can attract today's kids to BA's, we won't have the 
other side of the
equation.... "parts available but no one to use them."

73,
Perry  w8au