[Hammarlund] A wasted SP-600 - item 300303033101 - a sad specimen

[Richard W. Solomon]

Before you condemn them to organ donor status, why not offer them up as-is
first, to this list. There are some of us who are not so picky !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

-----Original Message-----
>From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Mar 31, 2009 8:37 AM
>To: Meir WF2U <wf2u at ws19ops.com>
>Cc: Hammarlundqth List <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] A wasted SP-600 - item 300303033101 - a sad	specimen
>
>
>On Mar 28, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Meir WF2U wrote:
>
>>
>> On the ePay site, item 300303033101, titled "Hammarlund SP 600 JX  
>> Solid
>> State Receiver"
>>
>> I could barely keep my breakfast down!
>
>Other offended radio folks,
>
>This is not the first radio that's suffered a similar fate.
>
>I have here an HQ-145 and an HQ-150 that were similarly defiled.   
>quite a long time ago, I had a chance to buy these two and a BC-348  
>that had been "solid-stated" by some unidentified earlier owner. They  
>guy, I was told, had at long last become married, and his bride made  
>him get rid of all his radios.  Good thing, I think, if it kept him  
>from doing more of the same.
>
>I have been unable to even put power to these radios.  I recently got  
>them out of storage and they are now "unearthed" after being buried  
>for a long time. I may in the near future offer what's left of them  
>here on the list. Likely someone can salvage what's left in them to  
>good use.  Kinda like being an organ donor with that little heart on   
>your drivers license.  The situation may be sad, but we do what we can.
>
>Roy
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>
>Roy Morgan
>k1lky at earthlink.net
>529 Cobb St.
>Groton NY, 13073
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