[Hallicrafters] 'these uncertain economic times"

[kiyoinc at attglobal.net]

"Weiss" <telegrapher at hotmail.com>  wrote: 

>  I even detect a certain amount of snobbish superciliousness when I tell guys using their $ KILOBUCK rigs that I am running a humble little novice rig from the 60s. Beyond the fact that we've just exchanged IDENTICAL signal reports, I wonder if there is something I am missing ? And Murphy prevails, you KNOW the high spectrum display will go black the day after he gets layed off.

We've been talking about rigs at my jobsite.    Basically, it's the QTH, 
antenna, and operator that counts.  

The signal from an old HT-32 or Heathkit SB-100 sounds a lot like the 
signal from a new $10K radio.    You might be able to measure a little 
drift or a few spurs from across the country but probably not.

What good is a 14.271.005 frequency read out when an SSB signal is a 
couple kHz wide?   Why are we measuring a wad of Kleenix with a 
micrometer? 

If the SSB signal had a carrier, it would be on 14.271.005.   It 
doesn't; it's on 14.270 to maybe 14.274.  Well within the calibration of 
a boatanchor.

Don't get too down on the economy.   It's folks like us, the ones who 
can fix and build things, who will drag the world back from the brink.

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