[Heathkit] Thanks Guys! As Usual, You Delivered!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I truly appreciate those of you who contacted me with the information I was
needing and not able to find elsewhere. If the guys on this list can not find
the answer, it is probably because nobody has yet asked that question!	
	
As for the two habitual cynics who's only joy in life seems to be in
complaining, your comments were expected. As predictable as the results of
drinking a little too much apple cider, and just about as entertaining too!
(LOL!) 	
	
As far as 'off topic' posts goes: I did a quick tally over the past eighteen
months and found that 34% of the list posts were, in one way or another, off
topic. Sometimes there just is no proper place to ask a question, so you ask
your friends. Other times the answer simply is not found asking in the "right"
place. The reason these lists exist is to provide all of us with a means to get
answers to questions by tapping into a tremendous pool of experience, skill and
diverse fields of individual specialty. 	
	
It has been my observation over the past eight years as both a subscriber and as
a list manager, that every list remains focused on its topic in excess of 87% of
the time. The other 13% of the questions may deal with helping find info on a
long lost military service friend who was in the 1953 ARRL Call Book, which you
do not have a copy of. So you ask for help. Off topic, yes. Hey! Maybe he once
owned a Heathkit! (patented Fischer smirk). One of you found the information and
made another Ham very happy. Am I going to object? Heck no! What I do object to
is very specific, rarely happens, Al Waller, K3TKJ and I 'both' agree on  and I
am NOT going to spoil Thanksgiving because somebody has a fowl attitude and has
a bone to pick or a giblet stuck in their gizzard!		

So pass the mashed potatoes, please put a large scoop of that unhealthy, but oh
so  delicious gravy on them, and have a very happy, safe, joyous and truly
"thankful" Thanksgiving holiday one and all. And somebody quick like tell that
kid with that silly mischievous grin over there by the Pilgrim, Indian and fleet
of foot fleeing Turkey display on the end table to not shoot that lettuce leaf
loaded with Dreamy Whip using that rubber band slingshot made from two slightly
bent pickle forks at the brand new high definition Heathkit TV ... SPLAT! Well
at least that football cheerleader has a new look!