[Elecraft] Wha'ts Wrong With Our Radios (WAS:NewProducts, Building Demo, ...

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/29/06 8:35:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aa4lr at arrl.net 
writes:


> On May 29, 2006, at 7:45 AM, N2EY at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Something like this, maybe? Only with a bigger dial window.
> >
> > http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/Jim/SilverRX1.jpg
> 
> Well, that's interesting -- a real mystery radio. 

No mystery to me...;-)

Of course that rx was built about 32 years ago. 

It has a bunch of  
> 
> knobs, but no legend. I guess you have to twist each and see what  
> happens....
> 


By the time I was done building it, I knew what all the knobs did so there 
was no point in labeling them.

Some models of pre-WW2 RME receivers had no labels on the controls. The idea 
was that you were supposed to read the manual until you didn't need them.

73 de Jim, N2EY