[Milsurplus] Surplus Radios WAS Flag salute by veterans okayed!

[Michael Tauson]

Hold on there cowboy!

On 8/8/07, Rich MC Clung <wa6knw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I haven't seen a military radio yet that I didn't want to modify, to make it
> better, to change it to how I think it should have been designed in the
> first place.

Well, yeah.  Them engineer types always mess it up big time!  Must be
interns all took right out of grade school or something.  That's how
they get to be lowest bidder since interns don't really have to be
paid a lot.  Us ham types always have to make up for their sins and
transgressions.

> Give me a drill, a screwdriver, a soldering iron, and plenty of flux, I'll be a happy
> camper.

But only if you use the screwdriver as a prybar and a busticated knife
as a screwdriver which is how it got busticated in the first place.
And the iron's the kind with the big head on it that you use with a
solder pot.  That way you can make a new case with the same one.

> Why not change that audio output stage from that 6V6 to a pair of 6F6's

Parallel push-pull 211s, but only if they're original Tungsols.  That
way you get every nuance from the lightning crashes and all.  Can't
have a second rate audio system now, can we?

> It makes me want to jump right up and play the National Anthem on the
> bagpipes.

Oh, trust me on this.  You do NOT want to hear someone make that
attempt.  The Geneva Conventions forbid this, I think.  Something
about cruel and unusual punishment.

> AIRBORNE!!!!!!!!

 When saluting a "leg" officer, an appropriate greeting is not
"Airborne leads the wa- oh…sorry sir".

Best regards,

Michael