[Hallicrafters] 'these uncertain economic times"

[Bob Macklin]

With the modern RICEBOXES you are paying for all the computer features.

Do you need them? Do you know how to use them?

My Benton Harbor S-Line works just fine. There are far fewer controls on the
front panel. I don't need a computer to keep the frequencies in memory.

But today's hams don't know how to tune a tube type Tx. They just turn on
their RICEBOX and YAP!

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Kent (Seattle), Wa,
"Real Radios Glow in the Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kiyoinc at attglobal.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:25 AM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] 'these uncertain economic times"


> "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.
>
> de ah6gi/4
>
>
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