[Hallicrafters] Re: A SX-28 followed me home today

[Bob Young]

I'm 54 but in pretty good shape, well pretty strong anyway, those are HEAVY 
and awkward, nothing really to grab on them, 390's have the handles, most 
SP-600's have handles at least in the case so on. I think they are one of 
the heavier boatanchors and definitely one of the most awkward to picvk up 
as someone else mentioned.  Nothing is as heavy as the HRO-50R1 I have 
though which is in the 3 ft rack, it's gotta weigh 150 lbs at least. I 
struggled up my set of 9 stairs with it, put it on a table and it hasn't 
moved since then,

Bob
KB1OKL
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:22:01 -0400
>From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
>Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] A SX-28 followed me home today
>To: "Bob Krassa" <radio at krassa.com>, "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>,
>	"Julian Bunn" <Julian.Bunn at caltech.edu>
>Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
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>Hi Bob,
>
>Get a life OM! Haven't you seen that commercial on cable/satellite TV about
>the forearm forklift straps for the amazing price of just ... (hernia not
>included!). Perhaps they work, perhaps not. I would feel a lot more
>comfortable hiring two male hormone charged seventeen year old teenage boys
>to lift those glow in the dark anchors of boats!
>
>Can it be possible that the SX-28 or SX-101 series or the HT-32b or the
>HT-41 etc. have gone from being heavy when we were forty to bone 
>fracturing,
>groin rupturing, hamstring tearing heavy sice we passed that half of a
>century mark? Could it be that we are just getting old and out of shape?
>Nah! Couldn't be that! (Chuckle)
>
>You will know for certain that you are officially old when you get an AARP
>card in the mail on your 48th birthday! You can not "legally" join AARP
>until you are fifty, but since they can not discriminate because of age, 
>you
>can join at age forty-eight! Pretty slick thinking on their part, heh? True
>too!
>
>But you know you are really old when you have to use the term "Grandpa" in
>the first person! As in: "I am a Grandfather" and not "He is a 
>Grandfather"!
>
>But you are seriously old when you are the only one left who remembers the
>stories about when you were young and "what really" happened!
>
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