[Elecraft] To those about to rock, we salute you (K3 v. K2)

[Bob Nielsen]

I should have known better and could still kick myself, but when I  
moved from L.A. to Tucson in 1984, I had one day to pack up  
everything and what was left over went into the dumpster, including:

Eico 720 with ARC-5 VFO
Collins 75A2 (modified to add a product detector which never worked  
correctly)
Two Model 15 Teletypes plus a couple of terminal units
plus a bunch of parts, tubes, etc.

When I moved to WA in 2000, I brought everything (including several  
boxes of essentially-worthless equipment I still haven't unpacked).   
I even still have my J-38 key from 1951.

Bob, N7XY

On Nov 4, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Milt, N5IA wrote:

> Al and Don,
>
> I echo you sentiments.
>
> Since we are all confessing our "mistakes" of the past in which we  
> had no
> thought of the future, let me tell my "I wish I hadn't done it".
>
> In 1965 as a poor college kid I desparately wanted to get on SSB.
>
> So, I traded my kit built Eico 720, my kit built companion plate  
> modulator
> Eico 730, my kit built Heath VFO, my National NC-60 with a home brew
> Q-Multiplier and 6 months of payments from my summer job on the  
> farm; all
> for a used Swan 350.
>
> I truly wish I had that first station in my possession today.
>
> Milt, N5IA
>
>
>
>> Al,
>>
>> I have similar regrets about my first transmitter - the 5763/6146
>> transmitter that was in the ARRL Hnadbook for 1955 and 1956.  It  
>> too was
>> cannibalized for parts at a later time, and I have often considered
>> building another from scratch, but now cannot find all the required
>> parts at a price I am willing to pay.
>>
>> And too, I sometimes think about the current value of all those ARC-5
>> radios that I was able to buy for $5 to $10 back then - they were  
>> great
>> parts resources at that time - if I had left them intact, I could  
>> have a
>> nice fortune now.
>>
>> Nostalgia is 'catchy', and hindsight is always 20-20 vision.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> Alan Bloom wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:56 -0800, eric norris wrote:
>>>
>>>> My biggest regret as a ham is selling the Heathkit HW-16 and  
>>>> HW-101 I
>>>> built in my youth--to buy a used TS-520.  It makes me sick thinking
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>> My biggest regret is that I no longer have my first homebrew  
>>> project, a
>>> one-tube (6U8A) regenerative short wave receiver built from an  
>>> article
>>> in Popular Electronics magazine back when I was in high school in  
>>> 1967.
>>> It worked great until I cannibalized it for parts.  :=(
>>>
>>> Al N1AL
>
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