[Boatanchors] Reality Comes Knocking.

[Rob Atkinson]

I wish you nothing but the best success.  I too intend to be around
for a while yet (God willing) and I love tube gear and confess to a
certain amount of improper smugness over the hand wringing taking
place because the new Ten Tec owner isn't repairing the old Ten Tec
gear.   One of the reasons I chose to go backwards to tubes was
because of solid state obsolescence.   I have the highest admiration
for the vintage RTTY operators.  To me that is real RTTY; the ham who
gave me my Novice test was a RTTY op., back when it was all
Kleinschmidt gear.     Once a ham puts a ceiling high rig into
transmit and experiences its continuous duty power, he immediately
knows there's no going back to all that dinky table top plastic stuff.

73
Rob
K5UJ

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 8:00 PM Daniel Jones <djones at k6yic.com> wrote:
>
> But there are those of us out here that still want to keep the filaments lit.
>
> I have devoted much of my collection to vintage navy tube gear and some early transistor types.  I also keep the oil burning with Teletype Gear.
>
> Shipping is always an issue, I have received a lot of gear for the cost of shipping just to make sure it stays in good hands.  I am in my early 40s so I have a few years to convince the even younger crowd that all the effort to maintain history.
>
> Daniel
> K6YIC