[Boatanchors] Hamfest stories - Giving

[J. Forster]

A friend gave away some working, older Tek scopes to a vocational ed
program. He later found out they were being used for soldering practice.

Never again.

-Jo0hn

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>
>
> At every 'fest I attend, I always look for, and buy, older gear - scopes,
> generators, meters, etc.
>
>    Then, I always take a stash of them - and any person who looks 18 or
> younger expressing an interest - generally gets thier pick of the gear on
> hand.
>
>    I have given away countless pieces of such equipment and whole bench
> set-ups to interested young people - who of course nowdays are few and
> far-between.
>
>    Even now in one of my storage units are three or four shelves crammed
> with such gear...  I've also donated locally to schools and vocational
> outfits.
>
>
>    I've been blessed more than once with young persons coming up to me at
> swapmeets to tell me that I started them on their engineering/hi-tech
> career by giving them their first instruments and Stuff when they were
> kids.
>
>
>   And: any kid at one of my tables who expresses interest can pretty much
> have anything he/she wants, for free or really cheap bux - once I sold an
> HP 141T system complete with tracking generator for next-to-nothing
> because the young man was A) practically salivating over it and B) knew
> what it was for and spoke intelligently about why he wanted it.
>
>
>     I got my first "good" scope (a Dumont dual-beam monster) in 8th grade
> -
> I gave $5 for it...  I could hardly sleep for a week - I had to
> practically be physically restrained from playing with that instrument to
> the exclusion of all else...    HIHI.  Never forgot that - I've tried to
> "return the favor" - been pretty successful so far!
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> John KB6SCO
>
>
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