[Elecraft] [OT] Rig Colors
Phil Hystad
phystad at mac.com
Sun May 20 12:56:10 EDT 2012
Logan,
I still have the HQ-170AC (though missing the clock) and three Eico 720s. Alas, they are not my originals. I sold my original HQ-170AC for just under $200 in 1967 for money I needed for tuition and books that year in college. I gave away my Eico 720 and a lot of other equipment to an up-and-coming budding high-school aged ham after I realized that I would be in school forever (planned on PhD Physics, got drafted instead and joined the Air Force). The [novice] rigs I have today I picked up at various hamfests in the last 8 years.
My novice call sign: WN7ECQ.
phil
On May 20, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Logan Zintsmaster wrote:
> Phil,
> I had exactly the Novice station and still have it. I hope to fire it up once I retire. Novice call KN8YXV. Logan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com>
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> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 07:53:39
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> Subject: [Elecraft] [OT] Rig Colors
>
> 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
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