[GreenKeys] 28 ASR's to Dump

[Richard M. Gillingham]

How long ago was this??  I'd have met you to get one..  I'm in Miami...
Oh well..  May the digitaly enhanced fish taste well..

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawless, Loveless & Childress" <w7lv at cox.net>
To: "RTTY List" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:03 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] 28 ASR's to Dump


> >>>/ I'm going to cry now. (You're kidding about ASRs to the dump, right?)
>
> /I lack sufficient imagination to make that up. After driving around 
> Florida (Naples to Miami tp Tallahassee to Pensacola) for two days in a 
> van with a refrigerator dolly and staying two nights in motels and taking 
> two days off from work, removing eight 28 ASR's from stockbrokers' offices 
> (and I mean these were PRISTENE!) and regearing them from 75 Baud to 45.5, 
> I couldn't find a single ham in SW Florida who was interested in taking a 
> machine for free, even if I, at my further expense, delivered them to 
> their QTH's and hooked them up.
>
> Since I already had two Kleinschmidts and a 28 KSR, and a 35 RO in the 
> shack, I had a choice: add a room onto my house or dispose of them. 
> Especially since the (then) XYL's car was now in the driveway and a 
> squadron of Teletypes was in her garage spot. (On later consideration, I 
> divined that 28 ASR's were more amusing and useful than she, but that's 
> another story.)
>
> The excuses were: "My wife wouldn't like it." Or, "They make too much 
> noise." Also, "I'm afraid it'll leak oil on my carpeting." (Like it's an 
> antique Harley?)
>
> And, my favorite: "I'm gonna get on RTTY with my computer." This last from 
> a transplanted VE3 who I knew to be technically incapable of jump-starting 
> a 1963 Ford Fairlane without ruining the alternator or blowing up the 
> battery.
>
> TTY for the Deaf wasn't interested.
>
> My county government (Collier County, FL) was constructing an artificial 
> reef at the time near Marco Island, so I loaded them into a borrowed 
> (again) van and personally loaded them onto an LCMP that they used to 
> carry metal junk out into the Gulf of Mexico, bidding them a fond, 
> "Farewell."
>
> I assume that these gems failed the Float Test and are, even as we speak, 
> providing homes for poor, underprivileged grouper and redfish.
>
> Now, when I order Grouper Parmegiana, I imagine that I'm consuming fish 
> spawned in a Digitally-Enhanced hatchery...
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