[Boatanchors] Question

[Mike WE0H]

I didn't save the posts. I read them and delete what I don't want to 
collect. Down the road, no problem keeping the pertinent replies intact :-)

Mike


Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> Would you do me, and all present and future list subscribers, a favor?
>
> Would you please be so kind as to cut/paste the relevant information 
> from the plethora of replies and put them into a single document? Then 
> either you, or I, can post it to this list. By doing so Mike, the post 
> will go into the Boat Anchors list archives where it should remain 
> available via a search for about five years. Hence, when this question 
> comes up again, and trust me - almost every question is asked multiple 
> times, some moreso then others, one of the subscribers can suggest to 
> the person to go to the HHI web site, find the archive search option 
> on the home page, select it and search anyone of several available 
> boat anchor related archives.
>
> Please send me a copy also Mike! I want to put it in my own vintage 
> radio archive database for future distribution to those in need! 
> Currently I have over a thousand Q/A on file there.
>
> It has always puzzled me as to why some energetic soul has not gone 
> through a particular list archives, such as Boat Anchors, deleted 
> non-helpful posts, edited out the technical or cosmetic or general Q/A 
> radio info posts and put them on a CD. However, having done this for 
> the HHRP - Historic Halligan Radio Project, which took me twenty-two 
> months of hard work, I can understand "why" very few radio hobbyists 
> would want to commit that amount of time, possibly more, to doing such 
> a project!
>
> Which is one reason that I, as I suspect many others do too, do 
> selectively pick various Q/A and how to or where to find posts and 
> save them in our own databases.
>
> I have said it many times before, and I say it again now: This list, 
> as well as the Hallicrafters, Heathkit, Hammarlund, Drake, Collins 
> etc. lists have an absolute gold mine of technical and historical 
> information courtesy of the various and sundry brilliant technically 
> oriented Hams, learned historians, incredibally adept restoration guys 
> and assortment of general radio data people who know something about 
> everything ever built or even drempt of! We NEED to save this 
> information gentlemen! None of us are getting any younger and when I 
> "look" at the Hams following behind most of us who are at least 
> fifty+, I just do not seen many who are technically inclined or 
> gifted. Other then in perhaps Computer Science. But to I, a real radio 
> has its own distinctive scent, glow through the ventilation holes of 
> the cabinet and feel when you turn the tuning knob. It is NOT a push 
> button for memory #12 and get wide band FM or whatever.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike WE0H"
>
>
>> I believe it was something about running feedlines into the house 
>> easily yet keep them waterproof?
>> Sure got a lot of technical info out in front us with this thread. 
>> Well worth the hours of typing...hi hi...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>>> Somewhere I missed the original question, but whatever it was, you 
>>> guys have certainly had a great time riding this radio quadraped 
>>> around the ole Radio Rodeo arena! (chuckle)
>>>
>>> Have fun -
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