[Milsurplus] How I Use an LM

[MillerKE6F at aol.com]

Ray echoes my feelings on this matter.  If not for hams, this stuff  would 
be filling the local tips or would literally be living out their atomic  
existence as beer and soda cans or the siding on a house.  Especially the  LMs 
and 221s which as Ray points out served the ham population quite well for  
decades until cheap digital counters made them mostly useless or at least  
redundant.  I too, like many others still make use of these old gadgets  from 
time to time and they were and still are quite impressive little  machines.  
But as a historian, you have to look at the context of the units  and the 
era in which they served and as Ray noted, the larger portion of these  
unit's lifetime has been spent in he shacks or on the shelves of hams and surely  
not the Army or Navy or Marine Corps.  
 
    I know there are a few people on the list who don't  give a rat's ass 
about the part ham radio's contribution to the history of this  stuff and the 
contribution the stuff has made to the ham radio art over the  decades, but 
buck up and look at the statistics.  A lot of fellows, like  myself and Ray 
still keep them around and one bloke claims to have 60 or more of  them rat 
packed away and in use.  How many non-hams would have done  this?  
 
    thank you for the read
 
    Bob, KE6F