[Boatanchors] BA's at Field Day

[EP Swynar]

Years ago, when I belonged to a large metropolitan club here in southern
Ontario, I took great personal pride & delight in my capacity as 40-meter CW
tent manager by trotting out my "hot-rodded" Heathkit SB-102 year after year
to Field Day...

And it WAS hot, too --- I added receiver incremental tuning to it, as well
as a razor-sharp 250-Hz CW filter from the old Fox-Tango outfit.

But the "anti-tube prejudice" & bias from the ill-informed non-users at the
FD site was practically palatable --- one OT (who SHOULD have known better)
swore that my "tube junk" was giving his tent no end of grief with
inter-mod! Others would peak at the glowing innards of the rig and snear...

But, he who laughs last, last best: our 40-meter CW tent consistently took
top honours in amassing points in a friendly competition within the club
year after year, & the SB-102 was always at the heart of it all...those were
good times, indeed!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Bruno - K2KI" <k2ki at starc.org>
To: "Mark K3MSB" <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
Cc: "List Boatanchors" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] BA's at Field Day


> I brought my BC-779-A and fired it up. Played like a charm. Also brought
> an old HW-101. More lookers but like you said, no one wanted to touch
> it. EWW TUBES :-)
>
> 73, cul...
> Bob de k2ki
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> Mark K3MSB wrote:
> > Had my SX-111 and HT-37 at the club's field day this year.   Drove it
> > on 40M for some vintage CW action.   Lor of lookers, but none of the
> > other ops wanted to try.
> >
> > With all the computer logging and whiz bang radios there,  guess who's
> > was the first one on the air for the first contact?  Tubes.... never
> > leave home without 'em!!
> >
> > 73 Mark K3MSB
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