[Premium-Rx] Best Premium Receiver?

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/11/2007 01:37:03 GMT Standard Time,  
leslocklear at cableone.net writes:

You  can't manufacture that kind of excitement with a new whiz bang  
receiver...............ah, the memories!!!

Les



>  Well,
>
> Nothing beats the excitement of an old oatmeal container  wrapped with some 
> #18 enameled copper transformer wire to make a  coil; some sandwich 
> wax-paper, some tin foil, and some cardboard to  make a condenser; an old 
> Gillette Blue Blade for the detector; and a  hi-impedance earphone. Ground 
> it to the hot water heater register and  connect a wire strung from the 
> upstairs bedroom window out to the  garage.
And so.....
with heads bowed  low.....
we stand and  remember....
as the Prem Rx Flag is slowly  lowered....
in the last rays of the setting  sun...
to the tune  of.....
"Goodbye Cruel World, I'm off to join  the Circus"
 
Racal, Collins, Harris, WJ,  Cubic......
and all the rest that never quite  made it......
it's time to  reflect.....
that you were sooooooooo close to the  glory......
but never stood a  chance.
 
If only you'd smelled the  coffee...
you would have  realised.....
right from the  start....
that the best radio  designs.....
are always made of  cardboard...
and they always start in the  kitchen!!
 
Bugger!!
 
Wish someone had told me that before I  got lumbered with a few tons of 
expensive steel and  aluminium:-)
 
regards
 
GandalfG8