[Heathkit] RE:

[dh2fa at darc.de]

Mr. Casper had no call when he was buying Collins items en gross. He
probably bought them as an investment and a couple months later liquidated
his Collins collection and his keys collection. He sold the meteorites
company and went back into silver dollars.
See his story at:
http://www.caspercoin.com/about.html

Collins and ham radio was just an episode and is not even mentioned in the
article above.

73
Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT


Original Message:
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From: Ted Bruce kilocycles at yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
To: ianwebb5 at comcast.net, Heathkit at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Heathkit] RE: 


Ian,
It didn't look like big observatory, more like a
scientist's office with electronic equipment on
shelves.  The camera angle was looking down the
shelves with him in a chair being interviewed.  There
was a window at the end of the room with a 90mm
refractor on a tripod (I guess), and the Heathkit
stuff was at the end of a row of electronic equipment,
the last items.  He was American, although the show
was British.

The theme of the show, End Days, was several ways that
the world could come to an end.  To the lead
character, who kept getting up ala "Groundhog Day" and
going to the airport (Heathrow, I think) in the same
taxi to fly to New York to start up an new particle
accelerator that was being protested as dangerous. 
Each segment ended up with a catastrophic end of life
as we know it; tsunami hitting the east coast, deadly
virus outbreak, meteorite hit, and finally the
particle accelerator.  In one segment, the taxi passed
by a theater where the movie "Groundhog Day" was
playing.

&3,
Ted KX4OM

--- Ian <ianwebb5 at comcast.net> wrote:

> It could be Michael Casper.
> 
> Michael Casper (casper at METEORITES.COM)
> 
> I don't remember his call and find 3 possibilities
> in the QRZ database.
> 
> If I remember correctly he was fairly actively
> posting to Collins lists a
> few years ago.
> 
> Any hint of which observatory or university it might
> have been from?  There
> are a lot of hams at different observatories.
> 
> Ian, K6SDE
>  
---snip---
> 
> Did anyone see the show End Day on National
> Geographic Channel this week? In
> the segment about meterorites, the guy on the inset
> TV had a VF-1 and one of
> the DX-20 to 40 rigs way down at the end of his
> bench by the telescope.
> 
> 73,
> Ted KX4OM
> 
> 
> 



		
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