[Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] Question from an admitted 'Newbie'

[Randall Berry]

 Is my Class E transmitter a boatanchor? I'll bet you can't lift it all
at once without breaking it down. I built it like a battleship.
Individual iron for every circuit. The power supply alone is a
boatanchor if you look at the weight aspect. Of course right now it is
actually a boatanchor because I never built a VFO for it. So it just sits.



On 09/06/2014 09:51 AM, Nick England wrote:
> I like that Dennis. The key being that it is something that was once useful/desirable, is now scorned by people who desire the latest/greatest, but is still loved by outlaws like us. 
> 
> And Arden has it right that there are as many definitions as people. I can't define a boatanchor but i know one when I lift it. 
> YMMV
> Nick
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> On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Dennis DuValll via BoatAnchors <boatanchors at theporch.com> wrote:
> 
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>> "Boatanchor" (boat anchor, boat-anchor):  Slang, a generally disrespectful, derisive reference to a large, heavy, ungainly object that has outlived it's original usefulness (if any) and would currently only be (possibly) useful as a weight capable of holding a boat in place at anchor.  In the current context the reference has been typically aimed at large, heavy, elderly electronic/electrical devices. I remember back in the 40s and 50s, though, hearing the term more widely applied (an old tractor, washing machine, refrigerator, furnace, etc.).
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>> Dennis D.  W7QHO
>> Glendale, CA
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