[Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself

[John Flood]

Greetings,

My affliction is only limited by $$$ or say the lack of it with three kids growing out of shoes and clothes, not to mention the food they consume to complete the previous mentioned tasks.  I've been hosstrading "Stuff" and my services .  I can trace the tradin' lineage of my WJ 8716 (my bedside radio)back to a Hallicrafters HQ-129X several years ago.  My kids say it would make a show just as good as the storage container auction shows.  Between scenes of me ducking post and pans as I'm dragging stuff in and then the characters at ham fleas.  I suppose I'm younger than most here but I was thinking of changing the name of my place from the KB1FQG Home For Wayward Boat Anchors, to, KB1FQG Home For Wayward Premium RX!  I'll take them in, keep 'em safe, and help you with the PRX DT's.  I'm here to help you!  ;)
 
I forgot to ask...  almost afraid to....  I put the Drake SSR-1 I just fixed up on top of the WJ and have been using that the past couple of weeks.  Will I get banished from this group?

John Flood
KB1FQG


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 From: "paul at 8zo.com" <paul at 8zo.com>
To: Mac McCullough <libbysales at austin.rr.com> 
Cc: Premium-Rx at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself
 

Well said Mac!

I suffer from much the same affliction.  It seems the attraction to a premium receiver is more than about measured performance: it is about an appreciation for the receiver’s actual state of the art.  Speaking of “art” - that is exactly what these radios are: a true art form!

Were ultimate performance the only consideration, I’d only listen to my Rohde & Schwarz XK-2100L and have no need of anything else.  As it is, I have a 1964 model R&S EK-07 receiver right next to it.  Just last night, I was having great fun listening to my Adams Morgan Paragon RA-10 / DA-2 receiver from 1922.  Even after 92 years, it is still magnificent!

There is a certain elegance in the advanced achievements of our premium receivers regardless of their age.  Excellence in human achievement is often admired by those with the knowledge and ability to understand it.  

Our love of premium receivers is a result of our knowledge and understanding of them.  Connoisseurs are the masters of the wines they drink, not the other way around.  

Am listening to my National HRO-600 right now… is there anything more beautiful than a great receiver with a Nixie tube display?

Vy 73 de Paul  W8ZO



On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Mac <libbysales at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject says it all,  I am damn near 70 years old,  why just why do I have this attraction for stand alone RECEIVERS, like most of us, over the years at any one time I have had or presently have 1-3-5 + really good receivers.
> These receivers are typically expensive to very expensive $1,000 on the low side to 4k plus on the high.. While they had/have many features for their day.
> 
> There is hardly a receiver made today that comes as a part of a quality Amateur Transceiver that wont run performance rings around most if not all of our PREMIUM Rx's.  The advent of roofing filters,  full DSP features throughout the set, size weight and add in reliability all the other factors..
> 
> Yet i still am drawn back to stand alone receivers that are more prone to needing expensive repairs take up more desk/rack space and do less. Not withstanding less and less to listen to from 100kc -30mhz beyond ham bands.
> 
> I now have come to also look upon this fine group as a "support group"  where friends don't let friends buy and rely on combination receivers/transmitters.
> 
> What started this was the posting several weeks ago from the UK guys offering WJ 8711A at i thought a reasonable price, then a friend mentioned he was selling his FT-1000D  and i asked myself what would my friends on PremRx do...  but i didn't wait,  last night i bought the FT-1000D
> 
> It must be so very hard to break a truly harmful addiction [drugs/alcohol]  if I can't even break my addiction to Premium Rx's  .. I need some sort of like a 12 step plan for guys like me ...
> 
> Thanks for listening.  mac/mc  w5mc
> 
> 
> 
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