[Elecraft] [OT] Rig Colors

[Phil Hystad]

I am sitting here on the couch in the shack with my Mac laptop in my lap and I realize that all my rigs up on the desk are all black.  Vendors include Elecraft, Icom, and Yaesu and they are all black.  And, they are all the same shade of black.  Even my Astron power supplies, my Palstar dummy load, my Palstar tuner, my LP100A, my COMSpkrs are black.

Actually, the only non black thing up there on my desk is my Begali Magnetic Classic paddle.  It is gold looking.

I have this photo of my shack when I was in high school and very little in that photo is black (at least from the photos perspective).  The receiver, an HQ-170AC, was sort of a gray blue color, the transmitter, an Eico 720 has a very shiny aluminum front with meter and black knobs (although the case is black it is not seen in the photo).  I have some miscellaneous Heathkit stuff which sports the non-black Heathkit colors.  In this photo from 50 years ago, very little is black.

OK, not much technical for Elecraft questions but now I am really curious about this.  So, my question posted here on Sunday morning while I wait for the oatmeal to be ready.

73, phil, K7PEH