[Boatanchors] TCS tx Output

[David Stinson]

> Its a radio, not a Rembrandt. 

I have never understood this attitude.
If one does not respect the radio and the people 
who designed and used it, why are they in this hobby?
And if one wants this artifact to perform like a plastic radio 
(which it never can), why not just buy a plastic radio?

Why destroy that which can never be replaced
to provide some temporary entertainment?
Every mod I've ever seen on a TCS -
those that worked at all- could have been done
just as well or better external to the radio.
About 95% of those mods were ignorant butchery
by people who didn't know which end of 
a soldering iron gets hot.  They turned a great
and historic radio into a pile of hacked-up junk
that can't even get $20 on a hamfest table.

The Arizona is a ship. Not a Rembrandt.
Over the top?  I deny it.
A historic relic is a historic relic.
It's only a matter of degree.  
The moral imperative is exactly the same.

And what makes a Rembrandt so special?
It's just canvas and paint.   Let's say I buy them all.
They're mine.  I can do what I want, right?
So I'll blow my nose and wipe my boots on them.
Why not?  Sure; I'd be guilty of a moral crime against
every future human being, but what of that?
Isn't *ME* doing what *I* want 
with what's *MINE* more important?

Maybe I'll go buy the Grand Canyon 
and use it for my own, private toilet.
Why not?  It's *MINE!*

D.S.