[Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit

[Jim Wiley]

Wayne Burdick wrote
> <snip> 
The mammoth was reasonably well-preserved.

Unfortunately, the best the team could do was thaw out a few small 
steaks and serve them to the hopeful.

<snip>


- - Reminds me of a field-day recipe book from long ago,  for Elephant 
stew:   First, dice one elephant . . . .


>
> But back to western Michigan. My wife's family has a cabin in
> Ludington, a couple of hours north of Benton Harbor. W

So that's where Luddites come from.  I always wondered. 

<snip>

> I'd love to see my beloved DX-20 transmitter, which hummed and sizzled 
> and arced in a manner not described in the literature, and which 
> struck fear into the hearts of
> nearby TV viewers in my ancestral La Mesa homeland.
I too started with a DX-20, back in the dark days of 1959.   Mine made 
interesting sounds when it was keyed, but it never quit.  Still got the 
darn thing. 

<snip>


- Jim, KL7CC