[Hammarlund] Has anyone here ever "built" a SP-600?

[Philip Atchley]

Duane et al,

Since this was sent to the list I guess I'd better reply via the list.

Actually, I'm having a ball.  I love to homebrew stuff and it's rare that I 
get a project of this magnitude, and I don't even have to buy the parts 
<grin>.  Everything is supplied for both sets.  When I get finished I expect 
that BOTH sets will be good ones, and one will even have a product detector. 
Besides, the one I "build" will probably look nicer than the other one since 
everything is spotlessly clean and even the panel is in better overall shape.

And Duane, as to purple, what's in a name?  Barney isn't a dumpster diver, he 
has some very nice radios, many that I've overhauled for him (Collins LF/HF 
like a baby R-390, I forget the model, SX-62, BC-1004, Military R-100 etc). 
You and I have the same middle name (Bruce) and for me anyway, that caused all 
kinds of grief when I was growing up (kids can be cruel, especially when 
there's a suggestive parody song about your name).

Well, I sure hope that I can hear "one more beacon".  Summer time IS NOT the 
beacon hunting season as the very high T-storm noise makes anything but the 
strongest LF beacons inaudible.  EXAMPLE:  I just checked the lightning map of 
the USA, there have been 45,123 lightning strikes in the past two hours, a 
typical summers evening.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB

> Mr. Beacon,
>
> See this annoying comment in your footer: "991 Different NDB's heard to 
> date."
>
> Would you please stop fooling around with these radios this dumpster diver
> buddy of yours keeps dropping off for you to fix, give him back the good 
> one, an
> leave you with a big dumb grin and a butt high pile of parts and hear nine 
> more
> of those blasted beacons? After months and months of that "991", please hear 
> at
> least one more! Even Frogzilla is getting annoyed. Now I know your friend is
> purple, (do not ask people!) and that is the one color that Frogzilla really
> really hates! Are you getting some conductivity across that spark gap path
> between your ears?  So dig yourself out of those parts and stop rumaging 
> around
> among them like a four year old who found his mother's purse unattended and 
> is
> going through it looking for the pink fruit flavored gum, coins for the Day 
> Care
> center video games they keep where the teachers go and send those smoke 
> signals
> like the Indians used to do, TV remote for momand Dad's bedroom TV with all 
> the
> good channels on it and those really cool funny looking balloons in the foil
> packages that your big sister got into trouble for blowing up when the
> Missionary visiting your Church came for dinner! PLEASE Phil, get into your
> beacon seekin' mood mode and hear one more beacon!
>