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

[W4NJ]

This may sound self serving if not verbose but I made a deal with her recently…. I’ll sell off the entire collection if I can have one receiver and one receiver only…..an R&S EB500. She unwittingly or should I say unknowingly, agreed. So the EB500 is here now and the soon to be sold stablemates are being slowly divested.

Win win? Who knows. Time will tell I suppose. Oh, by the way, I will be missing a few 12 Step meetings gang.

Cliff - W4NJ

On Mar 11, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Les Locklear <leslocklear at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This affliction has probably reached "Black Plague" proportions when you consider the numbers that are afflicted
> and the numbers of receivers that each of us had pass through our hands in that quest for the "Holy Grail." We
> all know it isn't out there, yet "just one more receiveritis" has set in and there is no known cure. Many years ago
> I compiled a list with make, model number and serial number and whether it had been sold/traded. I didn't start
> that list until a few dozen had already passed through. I have 144 listed and, sad to say only one remains in the
> house. That being a highly modified Icom IC-746, loaded with filters and modded for dc to daylight operation.
> 
> Like Mac, age (70) and a realization that no such magical receiver exists, my one time vast collection has disappeared.
> But, what a ride, I have tried just about everything that I desired and lots of middle of the road receivers. Some
> disappointed, some enthralled, Eddystone, TMC, Collins, Hammarlund, National, Drake, Ten Tec, Yaesu, JRC, Hallicrafters,
> AOR, Lowe, Lafayette, Allied. Echophone, R.F. Harris, Siemens, Icom, RCA, Racal, Military Receivers, R-390/URR (no non-A's),
> R-390A/URR (over 30) SP-600's (21) R-725, R-1051B, D and G, R-388 and R-388A, Palstar, Eton, and some lesser forgotten
> orphans.
> 
> I do still have two 1936 Zeniths, a 1940 Philco and a 1940 RCA19K console that has spectacular audio and works very well
> on the shortwave bands.
> 
> My wife will have an easy job when I'm gone....................................
> 
> Les Locklear
> 
> "You can have a college degree and legitimate
> parents and still be a dumb bastard."
> 
> Unknown.......
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Mac
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:17 AM
> To: Premium-Rx at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself
> 
> 
> 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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