[Boatanchors] A Classic Example of the Homebrew Art

[Richard Knoppow]

    Like the old Republic serials on You Tube, everyone wore 
suites, ties and hats. Notice the hats never come off in fights. 
Too much trouble for the editor to match plus it helps disguise 
the stunt players.
    My dad always wore double breasted suits and a hat but he was 
a lawyer so dressed respectably. I must say people treat you 
differently if you are well dressed.

On 9/27/2020 2:05 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> 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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