[Hammarlund] Fw: [Boatanchors] RE; A Solder Story

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

After I posted that email, I remembered that it was a Christmas Day in
1987, I was offshore Haifa Harbor awaiting berthing instructions.  So close
to land but so far away.  My worst Christmas that put me in a sour mood was
when I was nearing Singapore and I heard some W3's and W2's on 7 MHz Morse,
i called them to make a contact with someone from "home" and they told me
they didn't want to talk to me because I wasn't DX - I explained I was 30
miles from Singapore.  No good, not even for a Merry Christmas from home.

That got me anti-DXer for quite a while, but I realized later that it was
just two jerks who were chatting among themselves because no one was on
from Asia.  They could have wished me MX and I'd have had a great day.

Their loss, they had good signals though, it was about 6 AM S'pore time.

73
DR
N1EA


On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 9:41 PM Rodger Singley <wq9nsc at live.com> wrote:

> David,
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> You are correct and that was a typo; the transmitter is a T-102 and the
> receiver is a R-104.  My S-119 line came with the matching twin 4CX300A
> amplifier with Reliant branding that I have never found a manual to match.
> It is a neat looking setup.
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> TMC made some neat stuff and there was some Hammarlund engineering
> cross-pollination.  I am not familiar with the model you describe but TMC
> did make a lot of different interesting pieces of gear.
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> Rodger WQ9E
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