[Boatanchors] Reality Comes Knocking.

[Eric Boyle]

I'm 46 and decided as soon as I became a ham that I liked things I can fix myself instead of sending it back to the manufacturer for repair. I had an FT-DX3000D, I sold it and bought an R390A with a Central Electronics 200V to go with it and couldn't be happier. Of course the rabbit hole went deep and I now have two R-390A's, an R-391, two 75A-4's, two 75A-1's, a Central Electronics 100V, a KWM-2A with a 30L-1 to match. Along with two Kenwood TS-830S' and a TS-820S. The 75A-4 was the one that got me hooked on all tube rigs. 

Then there's the vintage HP test equipment, Tektronix scopes....

I'm having far more fun than I was with that Yaesu. 

Eric Boyle, 
K0ELB 

> On Feb 13, 2022, at 10:28 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> I call those "plastic Barbie and Ken radios."
> Also- most of the current crop aren't even radios
> as we understand them.  They are computers
> that just happen to connect to an antenna.
> 
> 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
>> 
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