[Boatanchors] Dayton/Xenia boatanchor photos

[Nick England]

Indeed, you could go to dozens of hamfests and never see a Cosmic Blue
National and this year there were 6 or 7 of them, with all three models,
NC-270, NC-190, and NC-140 on sale.
I didn't see one of the NTS-3 speakers though.
http://www.virhistory.com/ham/spkrs/nat-NTS-3.jpg

Cheers,
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:47 PM Bry Carling <af4k at hotmail.com> wrote:

> It was definitely nice to see s couple of National “Blue Nightmare”
> Receivers together there on a table (somewhere in the middle of your
> photos.) I think one of them was an NC 140 and the other may have been an
> NC 270. In any event their space age styling certainly made them look like
> they ought to be fantastic receivers. Many people might agree with me, that
> those lower-mid range National receivers were long on appearance, but quite
> lacking in bandspread and other aspects of controllability and ergonomics.
> YMMV
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> Best regards - Bry Carling, AF4K, (FL) G3XLQ, WB4FPH, WN4NRR, A4941 (RSGB
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> On May 22, 2019, at 2:32 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My Dayton/Xenia photos are now posted here -
> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/dayton-19.htm
> And my photos from a visit to Fair Radio are here -
> http://www.virhistory.com/ham/fair-19.htm
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> Great fun was had by all!
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
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