[Johnson] Re: [Boatanchors] Re: THE VIKING II AND FRIED HAM

Ed Tanton n4xy at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 30 16:42:21 EST 2007


It's simple for me: I don't make no new holes, period.

It's my own rule, and applies only to me. It would not stop me from 
buying any piece of equipment that already HAD a new hole-provided I 
was not doing some kind of investment thing (which I am not into.)

For example, I have 2 NCL-2000s. One (which I got 1st) looks pretty 
good, and is utterly stock. The second I traded from a friend-I had a 
2nd RME-6900, as well as a Gonset G-76 (that I had discovered was a 
VERY poor CW TX) and he had this VERY nice NCL-2000 that Svetlana had 
changed from a pair of 8122s to a pair of 4CX400s (and did a superb 
job of it.) Well. I might not have countenanced that mod, but it was 
a pretty good idea, and you can just barely tell it isn't stock. So, 
taking a what's-done-is-done philosophy, we traded. He's happy. I'm 
happy. But I could NEVER have done it (or had or allowed it to be 
done) myself. Just couldn't have brought myself to it.

Call it a weakness (as the witch said about eating children in the 
Bugs Bunny version of Hansel & Gretel.)

//snip
>>WHY?
>//snip

72/73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>
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