[Boatanchors] Upgrade controversy

[Bob Macklin]

My first receiver was a S-38(the one with the BFO) that had been rekitted by
a M/SGT.

My first transmitter was built from parts acquired through USAF MARS. I did
not spend any money except for the 300ohm twinlead I used to make a 40M
antenna.

I was a S/SGT in the USAF at Austin, Tx. at the time. I lived on the base
and I could not have an outdoor antenna. So we put a 40M folded dipole in
the attic of our duplex.

My CW exam was administered by the most sr (M/SGT) radio operator on the
base. He happened to be assigned as custodian of the bases MARS facility.
This was a SAC base at the time.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa,
"Real Radios Glow in the Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: <w9gt at verizon.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Bob Macklin"
<macklinbob at msn.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Upgrade controversy


> If you look at the cost of things after inflation, the new entry level
rigs don't cost any more than rigs like the Heath DX-40 and Hallicrafters
S-38 combined and the new rigs can do a whole lot more!
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> Everything is relative!  Frankly, even the worst of the new HF SSB
transceivers can run rings around the average Novice Class station of the
late 1950s into the early 1960s.  When you consider that $100 a week was a
very good wage in the late 1950s even a Heath DX-20 took a good "chunk" out
of one's income.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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> --- On Fri, 9/12/08, Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com> wrote:
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> From: Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com>
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> All the recent changes to the licensing has done is to open up more of
75/80M to more phone operation.
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> From my location I don't see any real difference. We have people that got
NOCODE TECH tickets to use the 2M FM repeaters as an alternative to
operating on 11M. And these people seem to have no interest in HF operation.
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> Part of the problem may be the entry cost of a HF rig these days. These
people could not build their own rigs. The simple QRP SS kits are a joke.
Besides they are CW only. A decent new RICEBOX is over $1K. A decent 2M FM
transceiver is only $200.
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