[Hallicrafters] Receivers and such

[Oliver J. Dragon]

I don't recall the front seat setup of the '61 Falcon, but like my '57 
Fairlane I suspect it was a bench seat rather than buckets. If so, the 
Heath setup probably made it impossible for the typical guy/gal seating 
arrangement, i.e., you might just as well as had bucket seats. In either 
case she sat "miles" away from the driver.
Bucket seats or Heath mobile gear not very conducive to romance, were they? :-)

Ollie.


At 08:14 PM 08/19/2005, you wrote:
>I "broke" my wife in "properly" with mobile equipment.
>  When we were first married I had the Heathkit mobile
>"twins", the Cheyenne and Comanche, in the front seat
>of a 1961 Ford Falcon 4-door with a 40 meter center
>loaded whip on the back.  At the time I was a junior
>at Georgia Tech and was working for the Motorola
>Service Station in Atlanta.
>
>Several months later, as I started my senior year, I
>went to work directly for Motorola and got a
>T43GGV-1130 (2 frequency) 25 watt highband (2 meters)
>FM mobile.  I took out the Heathkits and installed the
>T43GGV in the trunk.  Having that "little" control
>head taking up just a "little bit" of room made my
>wife VERY happy.  Ever since then she has not
>complained about having a radio in the car since
>anything these days is MUCH smaller than the old
>Heathkits.  That was 40 years ago and she still wants
>a transceiver in the car "just in case" something
>happens.  She is not interested in amateur radio but
>she still wants the radio installed.
>
>Glen, K9STH
>
>--- TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net> wrote:
>
>Oh, and I laughed embarrassingly loud at Ken's (K4XL)
>description of that which captured our imagination,
>AFTER radios.  That resulted in "The Look" from the wife...
>
>Glen, K9STH
>
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