[Boatanchors] A Classic Example of the Homebrew Art

[Bill Cromwell]

heh,

I had a chance to look at my October QST and in the 100 years ago column 
there is comment about the cover (1920) showing a ham at his transmitter 
wearing a suit and tie:)

73,

Bill  KU8H

bark less - wag more

On 9/27/20 6:34 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     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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