[Boatanchors] FW: Question from an admitted 'Newbie'

[Bob Young]

I tried to sent this earlier but sent it to Joe, sorry Joe!




This is just conjecture on my part but I bet when the modern light weight receivers and transmitters came on the scene during the 60's and 70's a lot of hams starting referring to the old heavyweights as boatanchors as a derogatory term and it stuck, of course the term is now a positive term unlike years ago.

Bob
KB1OKL

> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:34:11 -0700
> To: jeffv at op.net; manualman at juno.com; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Question from an admitted 'Newbie'
> From: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
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> If you can carry it from the swapmeet to your car without help, without stopping and without a heart attack, it's probably not a boatanchor.
> 
> Joe Connor
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> On Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:28 PM, jeff <jeffv at op.net> wrote:
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> >On 09/04/2014 06:47 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> >> Trouble is, the term "boatanchors" is so misused and nebulous, it's
> >> difficult to define today. A Morrow receiver, MBR-5, is all tubes, weighs
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> >Tubes.
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