[Elecraft] Regarding Heathkit

[stan levandowski]

I've built many Heathkits since 1960.  One in particular stands out 
because it is presently still in operation 24/7 to this very day!  In 
August 1973, I met my future wife in a local gin mill (hey, it was a 
CLASSY gin mill with a band).  She was a schoolteacher who had trouble 
getting up in the morning because her alarm clock was unreliable.

Never one to pass up an opportunity, I built her a digital Heathkit 
GC-1005 alarm clock.  It used those old orange-glow segment tubes you 
younger guys can't possibly relate to.  It worked in more ways than one: 
we got married on December 22, same year.

That Heathkit has been running constantly now for almost 38 years and, 
infrequent power outages notwithstanding, the only maintenance it has 
ever needed was a new line cord when the original one dry rotted out. 
No other maintenance has ever been done -- nada -- nothing.

We are still going strong too and often kid around that "If the Heathkit 
stops, we're in deep poop."

73 from Stan WB2LQF