[Boatanchors] New official acronym

[Bob Macklin]

As far as I can tell the most difficult replacement for BA's is the
multisection electrolytic capacitors.

The wafer switch sections are available from ElectroSwitch. They are the old
Centralab switch line. But you may have to do some modifications to them for
the custom sections used in some rigs. But for homebrewing they are just
like they used to be but more expensive.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa,
"Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
To: "Ed Berbari" <eberbari at indy.rr.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] New official acronym


> 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
>
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