[Boatanchors] Speaking of cheap stuff (was harbor freight and soldering guns)

[Rob Atkinson]

I guess I have some field around me that causes modern manufactured
things to break.   I'll figure something out.  Thanks to everyone who
sent suggestions.  It has been an interesting conversation, shack
clocks.  Remember that thing you could get that was a map of the world
in a frame and it had all the times of big cities in little windows
and sold for some crazy high price like $700?  This was back around
1970.   I figured that had to be for the rich XYL who didn't know what
to get for her OM for Christmas.   Maybe new hams don't bother with
shack clocks.   I am just programmed old style to have two for local
and Zulu, along with paper, a dummy load, headphones (which I almost
never use) and pens.   I have given up on having a callbook since they
don't print them now, and a printed log book.  I use my card file
instead.  My shack is a computer-free zone.

73

Rob
K5UJ




On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:45 PM,  <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:
> I have an MFJ 120 that I bought about 1983 that runs off of two AA cells. It
> does not miss a beat and I change the batteries around New Years along with
> my smoke detectors.  It never runs down and has large letters and numbers.
> Good product.  I forget what I paid but it was extravagant, to me at the
> time, maybe 40 dollars.  I have certainly gotten the value out of it.
>
> Jim
> W5JO