[Elecraft] RE:whats a D104? Young whipper-snappers! :-)

Wed Feb 18 12:37:00 2004

Obviously a forerunner of Elecraft customer service!

Doug
W6JD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nielsen" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] RE:whats a D104? Young whipper-snappers! :-)

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:41:35AM -0700, Bob Myers wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyone think my 47-year old element is still good? Since I don't have
> > the G-Stand, I guess I'd need to build a small interface box for
> > matching K2 input. Think the Astatic people knew what an *interface*
> > was back then? Hummmm.
>
> I haven't used mine since ~1960, but hopefully the crystal element is
> still good--I don't know what would cause them to age.
>
> I got my D104 in 1953 and added the G-stand later.  Around 1956 I
> accidently knocked the mike off the edge of my operating table,
> breaking the element.  I sent the head back to Astatic asking them to
> notify me how much to send for replacement and shipping.  About
> 10 days later I received it back in the mail, repaired at no charge!
>
> 73, Bob N7XY
>
> --
> Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy (at) n7xy.net
> Bainbridge Island, WA                      http://www.n7xy.net
>
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