[Boatanchors] A Classic Example of the Homebrew Art

[Bill Cromwell]

Did you notice the hams in the photos always wore ties and jackets? I 
thought forty meter propagation was much better when we wore ties. i 
would have reied operating in a tux I had one <evil grin>.

73,

Bill  KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 9/27/20 3:46 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> That's a beautiful piece of work but remember that for QST, most of
> the time authors submitted their text and schematics, and the
> professional shop techs and machinists at ARRL built the piece of gear
> that readers saw in QST photos.  That's why all the homebrew in QST
> was always perfect looking.   It was the ham equivalent of these House
> Beautiful magazines that show these gorgeous interiors that look like
> no one has ever lived in them.
> 
> When I was a new ham in high school I knew none of this and since the
> QST staff never widely admitted the article gear was built by them in
> a well equipped machine shop, that meant that for me, homebrew was
> this impossibly high bar as I naively thought ALL those projects were
> built by the authors, therefore all ham homebrew looked perfect and if
> you were going to build something and you couldn't turn out a
> perfectly laid out and punched chassis and front panel, then forget
> about it.
> 
> It wasn't until years later as an adult that I started throwing parts
> together and getting stuff to work and the hell with how it looks.
> 
> I  wonder how many hams never tried to build anything because they
> never thought they could achieve the QST build quality.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 2:21 PM Al Klase <ark at ar88.net> wrote:
>>
>> Gang,
>>
>> I've been obsessing over an artifact from 1951 QST, *Take a look*
>> <http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/homebrew/Homebrew_Projects.htm>.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> --
>> Al Klase – N3FRQ
>> Jersey City, NJ
>> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>>
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